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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
Hey everyone, I've created this thread to provide more insight on an upcoming change to how refresh tokens work for apps on the Spotify Web API. We've shared a blog post that explains what's changing and why. The short version: refresh tokens will no...
Hey everyone, I’ve created this thread to provide an open space for discussion, feedback, concerns or ideas on an upcoming update to Spotify for Developers access. We’ve shared a blog post that explains what’s changing and why. Please use this thread...
I am using the oauth flow with refresh_token and access_token, with the following scopes: 'user-read-private user-library-read playlist-read-private playlist-modify-private playlist-modify-public playlist-read-collaborative' I was able to successfull...
I am using the oauth flow with refresh_token and access_token, with the following scopes: 'user-read-private user-library-read playlist-read-private playlist-modify-private playlist-modify-pu...
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PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceBackendOperating SystemLinux/Windows My Question or IssueHi,I'd like to create an application, which users of the application have to host themself to use it. I plan to develop a kind-of jukebox application. As a party ...
Plan Premium Country Germany Device Backend Operating System Linux/Windows My Question or Issue Hi, I'd like to create an application, which users of the application have to host th...
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Hello, I am writing this post because I have found a possible bug/inconsistency in the API implementation. By using the endpoint “/v1/markets”, a list of all the available markets is returned. However, when testing the operation “get album by Id”, th...
Hello, I am writing this post because I have found a possible bug/inconsistency in the API implementation. By using the endpoint “/v1/markets”, a list of all the available markets is returned. Howeve...
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PlanPremiumCountryDenmarkDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 11My Question or IssueWhat I need is only one Spotify account connected to my app and users of my app should be able to request songs to be added to the queue and then my backend would be the o...
Plan Premium Country Denmark Device PC Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue What I need is only one Spotify account connected to my app and users of my app should be able to requ...
Roadie
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I'm one of the maintainers of Rspotify, the most popular library for the Spotify API in the Rust programming language. Back in July of 2020, when the spotify/web-api repo was still used for tickets like this one, I asked the devs to add Rspotify to t...
I'm one of the maintainers of Rspotify, the most popular library for the Spotify API in the Rust programming language. Back in July of 2020, when the spotify/web-api repo was still used for ...
Regular
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Hello,I'm currently developing an app where I want to get the user's discover playlists. I did it by searching the user's library by name. The problems with this approach are: If you follow multiple lets say "Discover Weekly" playlists, they are indi...
Hello, I'm currently developing an app where I want to get the user's discover playlists. I did it by searching the user's library by name. The problems with this approach are: If you follow multipl...
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When logging in from our app, we're experiencing sporadic login failures. We see a generic error. Is anyone else experiencing this?Logging in from an Android Device.
When logging in from our app, we're experiencing sporadic login failures. We see a generic error. Is anyone else experiencing this? Logging in from an Android Device.
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PlanPremiumCountryUs Device(All iOS & Android Devices)Operating System(iOS, Android) I want to integrate the web apis in my app on android and ios, Please can you confirm the premium plans of the apis executions.Actually currently I have used your ap...
Plan Premium Country Us Device (All iOS & Android Devices) Operating System (iOS, Android) I want to integrate the web apis in my app on android and ios, Please can you co...
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I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but there is maybe some error with spotify dev. I am trying to submit a quota extension request, but when I attach screenshots of my app or a screencast, I'm getting an 'unauthorized' error.
I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but there is maybe some error with spotify dev. I am trying to submit a quota extension request, but when I attach screenshots of my app or a scre...
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Hi, my IOS application just started not to work ever since the Spotify crash that happened earlier today. I'm not sure if it's because of that but I got this error code that I have searched the internet for but no one seems to have any info about it....
Hi, my IOS application just started not to work ever since the Spotify crash that happened earlier today. I'm not sure if it's because of that but I got this error code that I have searched the inter...
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Hi, I'm creating apps for a radio station and I'm wondering if I can use the Spotify API to show album art next to their live stream. The album art is visible in their 'now playing' interface. I know that we have to add the Spotify logo as stated in ...
Hi, I'm creating apps for a radio station and I'm wondering if I can use the Spotify API to show album art next to their live stream. The album art is visible in their 'now playing' interface. ...
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hello im new to this but im working on to separate apis, first one is so simple and i just need to move it from development mode, i dont know how to Request extension to allow users to login through Spotify auth. (its already built by my developer us...
hello im new to this but im working on to separate apis, first one is so simple and i just need to move it from development mode, i dont know how to Request extension to allow users to...
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Hi I've been working on a Spotify application for a school project and I didn't realize it was continuously sending requests. I need the assignment to work but now I have a Retry-After of 9.5 hrs. I think I fixed the issue now and wanted to know if t...
Hi I've been working on a Spotify application for a school project and I didn't realize it was continuously sending requests. I need the assignment to work but now I have a Retry-After of 9.5 hrs. &...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSAOperating SystemWindows 10My Question or IssueAny time I try to login and authorize using our app, I get this error "INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid client". This isn't an issue for anyone else working on the app. Any ideas?
Plan Premium Country USA Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Any time I try to login and authorize using our app, I get this error "INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid client". This isn't an ...
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The API endpoint that returns a user's top artists and tracks is returning a high number of 503 errors again!
The API endpoint that returns a user's top artists and tracks is returning a high number of 503 errors again!
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PlanPremiumCountryRomaniaDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI'm trying to embed some podcasts on my site and the titles are having some issues with the character encoding. They're displaying the apostrophes as ' and the & cha...
Plan Premium Country Romania Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I'm trying to embed some podcasts on my site and the titles are having some issues with t...
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Hello Spotify Developers, I am a researcher at the University of Southampton working on a web application for conducting an academic survey on novel music recommendation interfaces. The application will be collecting the saved songs from a user’s Spo...
Hello Spotify Developers, I am a researcher at the University of Southampton working on a web application for conducting an academic survey on&...
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Howdy! So I'm in the middle of a potential Spotify project and I've hit a snag I should have expected but didn't. I'm looking to have a bot create playlists on a Spotify account. The initiation of this task will be cron job based, so I'm requiring no...
Howdy! So I'm in the middle of a potential Spotify project and I've hit a snag I should have expected but didn't. I'm looking to have a bot create playlists on a Spotify account. The initiat...
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When using the /me/top endpoints, it always returns a 503 error, even in the developer console. The Spotify desktop app is also broken due to that error:
When using the /me/top endpoints, it always returns a 503 error, even in the developer console. The Spotify desktop app is also broken due to that error:
Music Fan
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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 there,I've been getting an issue with one of my clients where two title tracks that are su...
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 th...
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