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Hey, I created this thread to get your feedback on our blog post around changes to the Web API extended access criteria, which will take place on May 15th. Please share any of your thoughts on this change in the comments below. All of your feedback w...
I've been trying to get accepted to Spotify API for over a year now. Harmless apps, tried many. 0 feedback, not even a decline. What am I doing wrong?
I've been trying to get accepted to Spotify API for over a year now. Harmless apps, tried many. 0 feedback, not even a decline. What am I doing wrong?
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueHi, I have a question nobody has managed to answer. If I develop an app for commercial purpos...
Plan Free/Premium Country Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue Hi, I h...
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CountryJapan Devicedynabook Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI tried to get tracks that were released in 2000 with search API, but the result included other year's tracks. https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=year%3A2000&type=track&marke...
Country Japan Device dynabook Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I tried to get tracks that were released in 2000 with search API, but the result inc...
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Hey, I would like to use the spotify API for a simple web application and i would like to use the key and tempo information from the audiofeatures method, everything works correctly, however I'm having a hard time converting the 'key' to the camelot ...
Hey, I would like to use the spotify API for a simple web application and i would like to use the key and tempo information from the audiofeatures method, everything works correctly, however I'm havi...
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My Question or Issue I am utilizing the Spotify SDK for a project. The project stack is Node and react. When I run on production mode, the player fails to initialize when I am on the public IP address. However it works fine on localhost. My speculati...
My Question or Issue I am utilizing the Spotify SDK for a project. The project stack is Node and react. When I run on production mode, the player fails to initialize when I am on ...
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PlanNot applicableCountryBrazilDeviceAsus Zenfone 3 (ZE552KL)Operating SystemAndroid Oreo (version 8.0.0)BrowserChrome Mobile (version 87.0.4280.141) My Question or Issue I have a Spotify playlist embedded in two different sidebars on my WordPress we...
Plan Not applicable Country Brazil Device Asus Zenfone 3 (ZE552KL) Operating System Android Oreo (version 8.0.0) Browser Chrome Mobile (version 87.0.4280.141) My Question or Issue ...
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Region: DEBrowser: Chrome The reference link from the "Search for an Item" console page doesn't redirect to the new API reference. Tried it with other random reference links but they all worked like they should and redirected to the new api reference...
Region: DE Browser: Chrome The reference link from the "Search for an Item" console page doesn't redirect to the new API reference. Tried it with other random...
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Hi there: I'm writing an application to display and control current player progress. Something like the ThingPulse esp8266-spotify-remote. That program checks status every second, but I think that's excessive. I'd like to minimize the load on the Spo...
Hi there: I'm writing an application to display and control current player progress. Something like the ThingPulse esp8266-spotify-remote. That program checks status every second, but I...
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Dear Admins of Spotify, I chatted with an support employee and he recommended me to make an article in this forum. I am waiting now for several weeks for an approval of my application integration request. It would be very nice, if someone can check t...
Dear Admins of Spotify, I chatted with an support employee and he recommended me to make an article in this forum. I am waiting now for several weeks for an approval of my application integration req...
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I'm calling Artist API using the following artist_id to get artists information. https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-artist/?id=2E7KGbjZWrHYWD256VO4x4 Response: { "external_urls": { ... }, "followers": { ... }, "genres": [], "href": "https://ap...
I'm calling Artist API using the following artist_id to get artists information. https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-artist/?id=2E7KGbjZWrHYWD256VO4x4 Response:  ...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry DevicedesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueIsn't it possible to call the Spotify player outside a web interface? I have built a music (Adobe AIR) application but don't see a way to play music inside this appli...
Plan Free/Premium Country Device desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Isn't it possible to call the Spotify player outside a web interface? I have built a ...
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I am trying to use the API to stream to my subscribed users to my app. What license do I need ?Can I use single account authenticated via API to stream to 700 users?
I am trying to use the API to stream to my subscribed users to my app. What license do I need ? Can I use single account authenticated via API to stream to 700 users?
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Hello. Have an idea for SDA (non-streaming one) but want to clarify the restriction in advance to not to waste my time for something which might be not approved. I am confused about the "synchronization" restriction: "Synchronization: Syncing sound r...
Hello. Have an idea for SDA (non-streaming one) but want to clarify the restriction in advance to not to waste my time for something which might be not approved. I am confused about the "syn...
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Seriously! My bug report needs to be taken seriously by a Spotify employee.The Community is fantastic, but I do not expect it to have very much experience with multizone systems nor is it its responsibility. How can I report a bug and get attention f...
Seriously! My bug report needs to be taken seriously by a Spotify employee. The Community is fantastic, but I do not expect it to have very much experience with multizone systems nor is it ...
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Premium - Sweden, Web API Are you having issues with your servers currently?Attached screenshot from Chrome Developer Tools console. Thank you in advance
Premium - Sweden, Web API Are you having issues with your servers currently? Attached screenshot from Chrome Developer Tools console. Thank you in advance
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The addition of Podcasts APIs into the Spotify Web API has been most welcome, however there's a few things that would make this even more useful, we can already get the list of categories for music with the Get All Categories, however a similar endpo...
The addition of Podcasts APIs into the Spotify Web API has been most welcome, however there's a few things that would make this even more useful, we can already get the list of categories for music w...
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Hello,I am trying to load Spotify Web Player in a WKWebView (https://open.spotify.com).On my iPhones (7 and XS) everything works fine.However, my iPad (6th generation) says that the web play is not supported.Safari also loads the web player correctly...
Hello, I am trying to load Spotify Web Player in a WKWebView (https://open.spotify.com). On my iPhones (7 and XS) everything works fine. However, my iPad (6th generation) says that the web play is...
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Hi,I maintain spotify-web-api-kotlin, a Kotlin multiplatform library with 72 stars targeting Android, JS (client-side as well as Node.JS), JVM, and macOS/Windows/Linux. There are currently no listed Kotlin libraries on the Web API Libraries page on t...
Hi, I maintain spotify-web-api-kotlin, a Kotlin multiplatform library with 72 stars targeting Android, JS (client-side as well as Node.JS), JVM, and macOS/Windows/Linux. There are curr...
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When it says that the limit to request your recently played tracks is 50, does that also mean that Spotify only stores your most recent 50 tracks listened? I requested for 50 recently played tracks then tried to use the cursor to request 50 more but ...
When it says that the limit to request your recently played tracks is 50, does that also mean that Spotify only stores your most recent 50 tracks listened? I requested for 50 recently ...
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Just a small mistake which I noticed: PUT /me/albums which adds albums to a user's library is documented as returning a 201 Created, but in fact it is returning 200 similar to the other PUT /me... endpoints (which correctly document 200 as the respon...
Just a small mistake which I noticed: PUT /me/albums which adds albums to a user's library is documented as returning a 201 Created, but in fact it is returning 200 similar to the other PUT /me... en...
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