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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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Superuser Contribution Login with username and password

PlanFreeCountryFRDeviceMozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.90 Safari/537.36Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueHello ! I'm creating a Java api but I need to login with email and ...

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  • Plan Free Country FR Device Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.90 Safari/537.36 Operating System Windows 10   My Question o...
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Superuser Contribution Web Playback SDK Rapid Track Switching

PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI have recently integrated the Spotify Web Playback SDK into my electron app.I am aware that there exist issues with electron and EME, however i am using a fork of elec...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country Australia Device PC Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I have recently integrated the Spotify Web Playback SDK into my electron app. I am aware th...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify OAuth2 Static IP Ranges

My Question or Issue We are using Spotify OAuth2 for customer authentication, we have Firewall which will block the responses from IP addresses, we would like to know which IP address ranges Spotify OAuth2 is using for redirection back.

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  • My Question or Issue   We are using Spotify OAuth2 for customer authentication, we have Firewall which will block the responses from IP addresses, we would like to know which IP address ranges...
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Permissions on posting blogs on another site like Medium

My Question or IssueI am new to the developer community, my question is whether can we post the developer contents on other blogging sites like Medium etc just for information or reference purpose? Thanks in advance.

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  • My Question or Issue I am new to the developer community, my question is whether can we post the developer contents on other blogging sites like Medium etc just for information or reference purpose?...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify radio build

PlanFree/PremiumCountrySwedenDevice(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueI want to build an radio interface to spotify and was wondering if the web API will do t...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country Sweden Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue I want ...
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Commercial integration request

My Question or Issue Hello,I have submitted a commercial integration request in March but I have not heard anything back, and I am still waiting for approval? Could anyone help me with this please?

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  • My Question or Issue   Hello, I have submitted a commercial integration request in March but I have not heard anything back, and I am still waiting for approval?   Could anyone help me...
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Can I save spotify data to a database?

Hello, I am making a web app that uses the top 100 songs for a decade (not user-specific data), and as these songs (and information) are the same every single time, I would like to save this data (song, artist (their genres, cover image), audio featu...

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  • Hello,    I am making a web app that uses the top 100 songs for a decade (not user-specific data), and as these songs (and information) are the same every single time, I would like to sav...
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Superuser Contribution Search - missing results

I am building an app where you search for albums by artist and / or album name.Most queries work as expected. But I have a case where using Spotify console I get correct results but the same query in my app returns completely different. Developer con...

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  • I am building an app where you search for albums by artist and / or album name. Most queries work as expected. But I have a case where using Spotify console I get correct results but the same query ...
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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Get Another User's Top Tracks

PlanPremiumCountryIDDeviceSamsung Galaxy S8, Windows PCOperating SystemAndroid Oreo, Windows 10 My Question or IssueI'm trying to build a simple user-based collaborative filtering, which mainly involves two users as inputs. Using the developer consol...

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  • Plan Premium Country ID Device Samsung Galaxy S8, Windows PC Operating System Android Oreo, Windows 10   My Question or Issue I'm trying to build a simple user-based collaborative filt...
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API: ISRC search not working all the times

Hi, I've this following issue:Some search we do for tracks starting from ISRC do not return any result. How to test it:Try to get the track with id 6j76RHtw6bJCSw1LkprA1E, the track is associated with the ISRC FRZ110100478Now run the search with q=is...

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  • Hi, I've this following issue: Some search we do for tracks starting from ISRC do not return any result.   How to test it: Try to get the track with id 6j76RHtw6bJCSw1LkprA1E, the track...
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Playlists list for a user not updated

Hi !Seems today/yesterday, more and more of our app users are getting weird behavior when we are listing the Spotify user playlists.Some of the Spotify user playlists are not returning anymore when requesting the Spotify API and some others are retur...

  • Roadie
  • Hi ! Seems today/yesterday, more and more of our app users are getting weird behavior when we are listing the Spotify user playlists. Some of the Spotify user playlists are not returning anymore wh...
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Spotify Icon Community Guides

Hello, I am developing an app in react native with react-native-vector-icons... Is it correct to use the material community spotify icon from its library with the color #1DB954 and a size of 21px x 21px? Or must I download the icon from the Spotify A...

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  • Hello, I am developing an app in react native with react-native-vector-icons... Is it correct to use the material community spotify icon from its library with the color #1DB954 and a size of 21p...
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Solved!! Endpoint Get Show not working with short token

PlanFreeCountryBrazilDevice Operating SystemWindows, C# My Question or IssueI am developing in C# a routine to get info about shows using the endpoint https://api.spotify.com/v1/shows/{id} .When I call the endpoint using the same token generated in t...

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  • Plan Free Country Brazil Device   Operating System Windows, C#   My Question or Issue I am developing in C# a routine to get info about shows using the endpoint https://api.s...
  • RoguePlanetoid
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Spotify remote SDK Seek Error : "Cannot seek in song: [UNKNOWN]"

Spotify Remote SDK returns the following error on seek -[Error: {"message":"Cannot seek in song: [UNKNOWN]"}] Please investigate and let me know as soon as possible since this is causing me to lose clients by the hour. This issue wasn't there with th...

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  • Spotify Remote SDK returns the following error on seek - [Error: {"message":"Cannot seek in song: [UNKNOWN]"}]   Please investigate and let me know as soon as possible since this is causing m...
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Authorization code flow: get access token error invalid client_id

Hey guys ! I'm building a webapp based on Spotify API using RoR. To get the access token, I use the Autorization Code Flow process. At step 2, I when make the [POST] to https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token, sending my client_id and client_secret ba...

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  • Hey guys !  I'm building a webapp based on Spotify API using RoR. To get the access token, I use the Autorization Code Flow process.   At step 2, I when make the [POST] to https:/...
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Superuser Contribution Api - Artist External URLS should contain links to other sites?

For context - I'm writing a quick script that grabs artist song and album info for a radio show that I'm involved with. One thing I was really hoping to do was grab the links to the artists facebook and instagram pages for the related show posts. Cur...

  • Casual Listener
  • For context - I'm writing a quick script that grabs artist song and album info for a radio show that I'm involved with. One thing I was really hoping to do was grab the links to the artists facebook ...
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Search for tracks/albums released in last day

My Question or Issue I need to be able to provide query information for filtering my search on release date for a track or album down to the last day.

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  • My Question or Issue   I need to be able to provide query information for filtering my search on release date for a track or album down to the last day.
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Superuser Contribution API URI Play=True on Custom Playlists' Individual Tracks

So I've got this little project that creates, updates, and maintains quick name URLs for Spotify tracks.. It works like a charm if I enter a songs' track directly.. and even can point to songs in custom public playlists, but..The songs in custom play...

  • Newbie
  • So I've got this little project that creates, updates, and maintains quick name URLs for Spotify tracks..  It works like a charm if I enter a songs' track directly.. and even can point to son...
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