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February 2026 Spotify for Developers update: thread

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...

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Web API rate limit

I want to build a website based heavily on the Spotify API, but I'm a little bit concerned about the rate-limiting. Obviously, it won't be a problem initially, but if my website gains in popularity, I end up risking hitting the rate limit. Does Spoti...

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I want to build a website based heavily on the Spotify API, but I'm a little bit concerned about the rate-limiting. Obviously, it won't be a problem initially, but if my website gains in popularity, ...

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Solved!! Invalid Access Code when using multiple scopes.

PlanPremiumCountryIreland My Question or Issue When following the authorisation flow, everything works as expected if I use just one scope. E.g. scopes = 'user-read-currently-playing'url = Request('GET', 'https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize',param...

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  Plan Premium Country Ireland       My Question or Issue   When following the authorisation flow, everything works as expected if I use just one scope. E.g.&n...

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Generated playlist isn't shown immediately

Operating SystemiOS 14 & Windows 10 My Question or IssueI've made a web app that generates playlists with only songs the user hasn't listened to before. The problem: When the app sends the user to the generated playlist (via a Spotify URI) there some...

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Operating System iOS 14 & Windows 10    My Question or Issue I've made a web app that generates playlists with only songs the user hasn't listened to before.   The problem: W...

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Solved!! Logic behind progress bar updates

How does one update the progress bar?Are we supposed to poll the API (ttps://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/)every X milliseconds and update the UI?

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How does one update the progress bar? Are we supposed to poll the API (ttps://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/) every X milliseconds and update the UI?

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Superuser Contribution Are donations commercial use?

Hi there, Do donations count as a "commercial use" for SDAs, including streaming SDAs? These might be donations to my project, or to artists which I feature (I may take a 5% processing fee) Donations, of course, imply they are purely optional. Thanks...

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Hi there,   Do donations count as a "commercial use" for SDAs, including streaming SDAs? These might be donations to my project, or to artists which I feature (I may take a 5% processing fee) ...

ohej

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Solved!! /v1/me/player does not support episodes

PlanFree/Premium (tested on accounts with both plans)CountryBelgiumDeviceSamsung J5 (2016 version) / laptopOperating SystemAndroid 6.0.1 / Windows 10 / Ubuntu My Question or IssueExample response:{ "device": { "id": "my_device_id", "is_active": true,...

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Plan Free/Premium (tested on accounts with both plans) Country Belgium Device Samsung J5 (2016 version) / laptop Operating System Android 6.0.1 / Windows 10 / Ubuntu   My Question or Is...

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How to export list of followers (of myself or another artist)

Hi! I'm new here and have a question I've been playing around with the Spotify API and see that for a given artist, we can export albums and songs and attributes of those songs, but is there a way to export the artist's list of followers (e.g. into c...

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Hi! I'm new here and have a question 🙂 I've been playing around with the Spotify API and see that for a given artist, we can export albums and songs and attributes of those songs, but is there a way...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution /token endpoint - CORS Error

My Question or IssueWhen sending an request to: https://accounts.spotify.com/token Access to fetch at 'https://accounts.spotify.com/token' from origin 'http://localhost:3000' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is...

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My Question or Issue When sending an request to: https://accounts.spotify.com/token           Access to fetch at 'https://accounts.spotify.com/token' from origin 'http...

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Using Spotify API in iPhone

PlanPremium Device(iPhone) My Question or Issue I have integrated Spotify API on my website. When an alarm goes off, a playing song will pause and play in few seconds. This does not work on iPhone after some time. (Probably because Spotify app gets s...

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Plan Premium   Device (iPhone)   My Question or Issue   I have integrated Spotify API on my website. When an alarm goes off, a playing song will pause and play in few seconds. ...

Peter_Schorn

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Spotify embedded follow button is not working

My Question or IssueMy spotify embedded follow button seems to open spotify and then (without following) immediately opens google chrome with a message that says "You are logged in. This window should automatically close in a few seconds. If not, ple...

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My Question or Issue My spotify embedded follow button seems to open spotify and then (without following) immediately opens google chrome with a message that says "You are logged in. This window sho...

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GET /v1/me/player incorrectly returns 204 and an empty response

A `GET` request to the `/v1/me/player` endpoint returns 204, even when Spotify is open and playing on my desktop. Interestingly, if I open Spotify in the browser, I get a 200 as expected. I started facing this issue about a week ago. I've also notice...

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A `GET` request to the `/v1/me/player` endpoint returns 204, even when Spotify is open and playing on my desktop. Interestingly, if I open Spotify in the browser, I get a 200 as expected. I started f...

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[Developer] Podcaster Audience metrics API

Podcaster data via API call Would like to use API calls to collect audience numbers for each of my podcasts each day/week/month.

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Podcaster data via API call  Would like to use API calls to collect audience numbers for each of my podcasts each day/week/month. 

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution Spotify API doesn't give access to people even after Quota Extension

My Question or Issue I recently made a small web application using the Spotify API. The app was made in the relatively newly announced development mode. After I finished making the app, I added a few people to the Users and Access list. It worked fin...

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My Question or Issue   I recently made a small web application using the Spotify API. The app was made in the relatively newly announced development mode. After I finished making the app, I ad...

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Spotify API with Ionic app

Hi, I was thinking to make a ionic app, the idea is using a form, the people enter a name of songs and using a query to spotify api get all the data of this song, can i make it? Thanks!

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Hi,   I was thinking to make a ionic app, the idea is using a form, the people enter a name of songs and using a query to spotify api get all the data of this song, can i make it?   Tha...

Peter_Schorn

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Web Playback API - synchronizing User streams

Is it possible to stream a Spotify Playlist in a live room (host/guest format), where the host puts together a playlist and syncs the song currently playing across all Users in the room. Would this be possible if all Users in the room were logged int...

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Is it possible to stream a Spotify Playlist in a live room (host/guest format), where the host puts together a playlist and syncs the song currently playing across all Users in the room. Would this b...

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution v1/me/player/currently-playing returning 403

Plan - PremiumCountry - USOperating System - Mac OS My Question or Issue: When attempting to deploy my code, I keep receiving anHTTP Error for GET to https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/currently-playing message. I've searched around the internet an...

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Plan - Premium Country - US Operating System - Mac OS   My Question or Issue:   When attempting to deploy my code, I keep receiving an HTTP Error for GET to https://ap...

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Possible to get some Help or not. Need Help API code or something to embed Spotify page to your webs

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueNeed Help API code or something to embed Spotify page to your website and Spotify Code

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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 Need He...

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Bug in Check if Users Follow a Playlist endpoint

I'm getting inconsistent results when trying to check if a user follows a (public) playlist via the /v1/playlists/{playlist_id}/followers/contains endpoint. If I follow the playlist via the Spotify apps:making the request using my app's access token ...

Music Fan

I'm getting inconsistent results when trying to check if a user follows a (public) playlist via the /v1/playlists/{playlist_id}/followers/contains endpoint.   If I follow the playlist via...

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