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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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How to continuously log/scrap the number of "people listening now" from Artist Dashboard?

My Question or Issue Within the Artist Dashboard homepage, we have the dynamic "X people listening now" information displayed.With the current API features, is there a way to log/scrape this data continuously? I could not find anything related to thi...

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  My Question or Issue   Within the Artist Dashboard homepage, we have the dynamic "X people listening now" information displayed. With the current API features, is there a way to log/s...

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Get Artist's Albums returning 'duplicate' albums

My Question or Issue Endpoint: /v1/artists/{id}/albumsArtistID: 1Xyo4u8uXC1ZmMpatF05PJThe results return 'duplicate' albums, it has both the explicit and clean versions of the same album, is there a way to filter for the clean vs the explicit?

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My Question or Issue   Endpoint: /v1/artists/{id}/albums ArtistID:  1Xyo4u8uXC1ZmMpatF05PJ The results return 'duplicate' albums, it has both the explicit and clean versions...

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Spotify Playlist autoplay Open.spotfy.com

When I access the link of a track ( "open.spotify.com/track/6F7tttrdq7aUdxXVeo0nKp") it gives autoplay.When I access a link of playlist ("open.spotify.com/playlist/0hDrHpihhI705nOPB2xayh") it does not autoplay. Is there any way to autoplay on the pla...

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When I access the link  of a track ( "open.spotify.com/track/6F7tttrdq7aUdxXVeo0nKp") it gives autoplay. When I access a link of playlist ("open.spotify.com/playlist/0hDrHpihhI705nOPB2xayh...

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embed sometimes not working

PlanPremiumCountryNetherlands Devicedifferent laptops (macbook PC)Operating SystemGoogle chrome/ safari My Question or IssueHi we embed spotify tracks to use for a music quiz. We use the embed option for that. Sometimes it does not work. We get to se...

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Plan Premium Country Netherlands  Device different laptops (macbook PC) Operating System Google chrome/ safari   My Question or Issue Hi we embed spotify tracks to use for a music...

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Does spotify provides karaoke/ background music api ?

Does spotify provides karaoke/ background music api ?PlanFree/PremiumCountryIndiaDevice(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue

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Does spotify provides karaoke/ background music api ? Plan Free/Premium Country India Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, W...

Hubo

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Spotify Public Api to get Sreaming Url or direct file path ?

In the tracks api, we are able to get Spotify page , but no streaming url or actual file is available in the api, Is there any way to get thatPlanFree/PremiumCountryIndia Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 1...

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In the tracks api, we are able to get Spotify page , but no streaming url or actual file is available in the api, Is there any way to get that Plan Free/Premium Country India   Device (iP...

murraypaul

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Right search query

Hi folks. How to use the Search API correctly?I need to search songs with the name "some body", I use a query:https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=some%20body&type=trackBut when executed, in the response, %20 is replaced with +, this happens in the Sp...

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Hi folks.   How to use the Search API correctly? I need to search songs with the name "some body", I use a query: https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=some%20body&type=track But when exe...

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[Player API] Start/Resume User playback parameters

I am working on create music player with Spotify as data source currently. And when i reading the API for put tracks to player , i got confusing about body parameters Below is my questions:1. What is difference between context_uri and uris ? Look lik...

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I am working on create music player with Spotify as data source currently.   And when i reading the API for put tracks to player , i got confusing about body parameters   Belo...

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Questions about Developer Terms Of Service

Hi there, I have a couple of specific questions about the Developer Terms of Service. I've tried to use the Spotify support form shown in another similar post to get in contact, but I was redirected here. Is there somewhere I can get in touch through...

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Hi there,   I have a couple of specific questions about the Developer Terms of Service. I've tried to use the Spotify support form shown in another similar post to get in contact, but I was re...

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is Login with Google Account and Apple Account broken?

PlanFree/PremiumCountryINDeviceXiaomi POCO FoneOperating SystemAndroid Pie My Question or Issue I get the following error when I authenticate with Google or Apple using the AndroidRemote Auth SDK:Can't redirect due to mismatch

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Plan Free/Premium Country IN Device Xiaomi POCO Fone Operating System Android Pie   My Question or Issue   I get the following error when I authenticate with Google or Apple usin...

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I built a fundraising platform using Spotify!

TLDR: checkout https://sponsorasong.com----Hi all, I hope I am ok to post this here! I just launched a fundraising platform on top of Spotify! Sponsor a song is a fun, new and exciting way to fundraise. Those who are completing an event create a Spot...

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TLDR: checkout https://sponsorasong.com ---- Hi all,  I hope I am ok to post this here!   I just launched a fundraising platform on top of Spotify!   Sponsor a song is a fu...

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Is there a Spotify API for Xcode?

PlanFree/PremiumDevice(iPhone)Operating System(iOS 14) My Question or IssueI'm trying to do research for an application that a user logs into using their Spotify login and then getting data from their account like their top artists/songs. I can't see...

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Plan Free/Premium Device (iPhone) Operating System (iOS 14)   My Question or Issue I'm trying to do research for an application that a user logs into using their Spotify login and then g...

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No recommendations being returned when querying by artist

Many artist ids are not returning any recommendations from the API. I'm assuming this is a bug. Just a couple of examples, using the developer console, omitting the authentication bearer part of the header:curl -X "GET" "https://api.spotify.com/v1/re...

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Many artist ids are not returning any recommendations from the API. I'm assuming this is a bug.   Just a couple of examples, using the developer console, omitting the authentication bearer par...

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Issue with Search API returning different results

Hi, I'm trying to use the Search API to search for a podcast via a Spotify application.When I try to use the Web Console, everything works fine. However, when I try to run the same logic via a Python script, the API response is different - potentiall...

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Hi,   I'm trying to use the Search API to search for a podcast via a Spotify application. When I try to use the Web Console, everything works fine. However, when I try to run the same logic v...

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Solved!! API bug: current user list of playlists returns short number of playlists

PlanPremiumCountryNetherlands Operating SystemLinux My Question or Issue Using endpoint http://api.spotify.com/v1/me/playlists returns Total:120 but the number should be more than 200. It was working fine until January 16, 2021. Playlists are only mi...

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Plan Premium Country Netherlands   Operating System Linux   My Question or Issue   Using endpoint http://api.spotify.com/v1/me/playlists returns Total:120 but the number shou...

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[API] Remove Items from a Playlist

PlanPremiumCountryUS DeviceAPIOperating Systemlinux My Question or IssueIt appears as if the API has changed to include a `positions` argument that is not documented.https://developer.spotify.com/console/delete-playlist-tracks/It does however continu...

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Plan Premium Country US   Device API Operating System linux   My Question or Issue It appears as if the API has changed to include a `positions` argument that is not documented. ...

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Superuser Contribution [Idea] API method - Import

I want to offer a new API method - import. It'll similar "multi search". The input is list with string-item and output is "search result" for each item. I am developer app for transfer music from Yandex to Spotify. In my case, these is using search r...

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I want to offer a new API method - import. It'll similar "multi search".  The input is list with string-item and output is "search result" for each item.   I am developer app for transfer...

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Embedded Follow Button Displays "Something went wrong, please try again later."

I have a follow button for several artists embedded in some web pages. At seemingly random times, rather than the button, they display a red "Something went wrong, please try again later." Even when generating a follow button embed code at https://de...

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I have a follow button for several artists embedded in some web pages. At seemingly random times, rather than the button, they display a red "Something went wrong, please try again later." Even ...

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Double post :-(

Double post, see this post:https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Issues-with-Recommendations-API/m-p/5147132#M1969

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Double post, see this post: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Issues-with-Recommendations-API/m-p/5147132#M1969    

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Spotify Follow Widget Malfunction

Country: United StatesDevice: Across all devices Hello, I just discovered that the Spotify follow widget I have on my website is no longer working.I used https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/widgets/generate/follow-button/ to create the code t...

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Country: United States Device: Across all devices   Hello,   I just discovered that the Spotify follow widget I have on my website is no longer working. I used https://developer.s...

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