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Web API quota updates for Development Mode

Hey everyone, I've created this thread to share some updates to how quotas work for Development Mode apps on the Spotify Web API to help you better organize your projects. We've shared a Blog post that explains everything in detail. Here's the short ...

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Refresh token expiration: discussion thread

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...

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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...

spotifyjosh

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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...

Peter_Schorn

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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 ...

Gig Goer

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...

soheilpro

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me/player/recently-played -- not updating?

I'm noticing that the response from GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recently-played does not reflect recent listening. In the response the most recent track was played at 2021-07-10T14:33:04.939Z and the account has been listening to music a...

Music Fan

I'm noticing that the response from GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recently-played does not reflect recent listening. In the response the most recent track was played at 2021-07-10T14:33:04...

walternyc

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Superuser Contribution Web Playback SDK works locally but not on web server

I'm trying to test the web playback SDK with a slightly modified version of the Quickstart tutorial. I'm using Safari (I know this was not originally supported, but Safari added EME support about 15 months ago in version 13.1.) https://developer.mozi...

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I'm trying to test the web playback SDK with a slightly modified version of the Quickstart tutorial.   I'm using Safari (I know this was not originally supported, but Safari added EME support ...

tomjaimz

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Follow button

I'm using the Spotify follow button (it's an iFrame element) in a simple website. When a user clicks the link, their default browser opens and they're prompted to login. However if I you go directly to the url specified in as an attribute in the iFra...

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I'm using the Spotify follow button (it's an iFrame element)  in a simple website.  When a user clicks the link, their default browser opens and they're prompted to login.  However if ...

Peter_Schorn

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Superuser Contribution Web Playback SDK should work on iOS 13.4+ but it does not

I'm aware that when it was released, the Web Playback SDK did not support Safari on the desktop or mobile devices due to the lack of support for Encrypted Media Extensions and/or Widevine for DRM. However, as you can see on the Mozilla developer page...

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I'm aware that when it was released, the Web Playback SDK did not support Safari on the desktop or mobile devices due to the lack of support for Encrypted Media Extensions and/or Widevine for DRM. &...

AttilaTheFun

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