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Updating the Criteria for Web API Extended Access

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...

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DJSHARON

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Spotify SDE Playlist Contents for use in Recommendation App

PlanFree/PremiumCountryTurkey Operating System(iOS, Android) My Question or Issue We have plans for using Spotify Developer API in our mobile app for ios and android platforms. Our app will be generating a Playlist by getting user's playlist from Spo...

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Plan Free/Premium Country Turkey   Operating System (iOS, Android)   My Question or Issue   We have plans for using Spotify Developer API in our mobile app for ios and androi...

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"Invalid username" when trying to list devices

Premium plan, using client credentials auth as this is the Node backend of an app hitting the API. Devices are Windows 10 laptop and tablet. Country is US. Trying to write a Node script to play music on a certain device. But I can't get devices to li...

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Premium plan, using client credentials auth as this is the Node backend of an app hitting the API. Devices are Windows 10 laptop and tablet. Country is US.   Trying to write a Node script to p...

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Search API does not fetch all tracks

Hello, We are using search API to fetch tracks and albums for a keyword.API I used: GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/searchIf you search the "Elevate" keyword in this, then the song "Elevate" by Drake does not show up in response of API. Can you please...

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Hello,   We are using search API to fetch tracks and albums for a keyword. API I used:  GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/search If you search the "Elevate" keyword in this, then the ...

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"Save Tracks for User" example not working with cURL

I just tried to use the example in https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/library/save-tracks-user/ and this was not working as expected. I just did a copy/paste (and replaced my Authorization header of course) and I got an err...

Regular

I just tried to use the example in https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/library/save-tracks-user/ and this was not working as expected.   I just did a copy/p...

Nohanna

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Getting Access To Spotify Data/Insight

Is it possible to obtain a database where song name, artist, number of streams and associated labels/tags are provided?

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Is it possible to obtain a database where song name, artist, number of streams and associated labels/tags are provided? 

Hubo

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Playlist track addition call returning snapshot_id but not accepting one?

Hi there, is there a way to use a snapshot_id when adding songs to a playlist? It seems like support for it is missing according to the documentation, but it's weird because the call returns a snapshot_id, so in theory it also should accept one. Is t...

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Hi there,   is there a way to use a snapshot_id when adding songs to a playlist? It seems like support for it is missing according to the documentation, but it's weird because the call returns...

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Get large collection of user playlists

Hi !Can you study to increase the number of items returned in a "Get a List of Current User's Playlists" => https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/playlists/get-a-list-of-current-users-playlists/ ?Because many users are now hav...

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Hi ! Can you study to increase the number of items returned in a "Get a List of Current User's Playlists" => https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/playlists/get-a-lis...

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Solved!! Featured playlists limited to 10

The docs here state: limit Optional. The maximum number of items to return. Default: 20. Minimum: 1. Maximum: 50. however, only 10 are returned for Featured playlists as tested at https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-featured-playlists/. Is this...

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The docs here state:     limit Optional. The maximum number of items to return. Default: 20. Minimum: 1. Maximum: 50.      however, only 10 are returned for Featur...

Hubo

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Solved!! Discover Weekly URI

I had a simple question, I am using the Spotify API to get my discover weekly playlist every Monday and save it to a new playlist. I have a problem though, I don't know if the discover weekly playlist URI changes every Monday or not, can someone conf...

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I had a simple question, I am using the Spotify API to get my discover weekly playlist every Monday and save it to a new playlist.   I have a problem though, I don't know if the discover weekl...

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Clarifying the 'market' field in API requests.

The 'market' field uses the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard to denote a listening territory in request. Spotify lists Kosovo as a supported territory, but as far as I can tell, Kosovo has no formally assigned ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code. "XK" seems to be the...

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The 'market' field uses the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard to denote a listening territory in request. Spotify lists Kosovo as a supported territory, but as far as I can tell, Kosovo has no formally ass...

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Superuser Contribution Restored playlists are not retrieved when requesting API endpoint

I just noticed that restored playlists are not retrieved when requesting API endpoint (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/playlists/get-a-list-of-current-users-playlists/).I first thought that my playlists were cached but I...

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I just noticed that restored playlists are not retrieved when requesting API endpoint (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/playlists/get-a-list-of-current-users-playlists/)....

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Bug on the "search" endpoint

PlanFree(haven't tested but probably too)/PremiumCountryFranceDeviceSpotify APIMy Question or Issuehttps://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=pharel&type=track&offset=0&limit=20 When searching ('q' parameter) for 'pharel' or 'pharell' and type 'track' t...

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  Plan Free(haven't tested but probably too)/Premium Country France Device Spotify API My Question or Issue https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=pharel&type=track&offset=0&amp...

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a request of receiving track metadata from Spotify API

This is Tada from Avex Japan.Our analytics team would like to receive track metadata about Audio Features & Audio Analysis from Spotify API a week before the release date. Would it be possible?Please refer to the info attached for more details.We wou...

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This is Tada from Avex Japan. Our analytics team would like to receive track metadata about Audio Features & Audio Analysis from Spotify API a week before the release date. Would it be possible?...

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My Spotify developer account got rate limited after my app was downloaded too many time

Hey, I recently released an update for my iOS app yesterday and it was downloaded by many users. As a result, my Spotify developer account seems to have hit a rate limit so none of my users are able to access my service at the moment. Is there anyone...

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Hey,   I recently released an update for my iOS app yesterday and it was downloaded by many users. As a result, my Spotify developer account seems to have hit a rate limit so none of my users ...

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Developer Terms of Service: Unclear Definition

I'm a developer researching the feasibility of building my product using Spotify's developer tools. This definition of "streaming" in Spotify's Developer Terms of Service is unclear to me and borderline contradictory: Streaming. “Streaming” means usi...

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I'm a developer researching the feasibility of building my product using Spotify's developer tools.    This definition of "streaming" in Spotify's Developer Terms of Service is unclear to...

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Developer question integrating spotify in mobile app
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Music APIs for mobile apps

Arranging genres, creating playlists, getting song lyrics! Music APIs for mobile apps with APIs have made music data easily available for mobile apps.

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Arranging genres, creating playlists, getting song lyrics! Music APIs for mobile apps with APIs have made music data easily available for mobile apps.  

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{"error":"unsupported_grant_type"}

Hey, I'm using the php sdk api https://github.com/jwilsson/spotify-web-api-phpand trying to connect the user. I log in using the link https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize? client_id=--id-- &redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.testsite.com%2Fspotify_conn...

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Hey, I'm using the php sdk api https://github.com/jwilsson/spotify-web-api-php and trying to connect the user. I log in using the link     https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize? client...

magnusmurel

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Historic active user data

Hey folks, Just wondering if it is possible to get historical active user data for my web app rather than just the 1 month view available on the dashboard? Ideally I would like to see 3/4 months back. Any advice would be appreciated!

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Hey folks,   Just wondering if it is possible to get historical active user data for my web app rather than just the 1 month view available on the dashboard?    Ideally I would lik...

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API endpoint to enable/disable crossfade

I have an app that I've been working on, an enhanced player of sorts. I want to give the user easier control over when crossfade is turned on or off, such as on a song-by-song basis. What's the chance that this will be added as a future API endpoint?...

Newbie

I have an app that I've been working on, an enhanced player of sorts. I want to give the user easier control over when crossfade is turned on or off, such as on a song-by-song basis. What's the chanc...

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Playing with an offset is not working when element in URI list appears multiple times

I am trying to start playing a list of URIs with the offset parameter. Some of the URIs are contained multiple times. Issue found on 2020-06-25. Scope(s):"streaming", "user-read-email", "user-read-private", "user-modify-playback-state" Steps to repro...

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I am trying to start playing a list of URIs with the offset parameter. Some of the URIs are contained multiple times.   Issue found on 2020-06-25.   Scope(s): "streaming", "user-r...

JtheSaw

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