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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
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...
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...
My Question or Issue Hello I was trying to do an apple shortcut which would just resume the song that is already present in the context, first thing that came to mind was using a simple deep link (thinking it is already available) and then just openi...
My Question or Issue Hello I was trying to do an apple shortcut which would just resume the song that is already present in the context, first thing that came to mind was using a simple deep...
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Plan - PremiumCountry- USAWeb APIsOperating System(Mac OS) I am getting a different set of device names back from the Spotify endpoint https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/devices than I am for the Alexa API https://alexa.amazon.com/api/devices-v2/de...
Plan - Premium Country- USA Web APIs Operating System (Mac OS) I am getting a different set of device names back from the Spotify endpoint https://api.spotify.com/v1/me...
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Hi. I've developed an open source library/wrapper for the Spotify Web API in Java. It covers all authorization flows and available api endpoints. Could it be included in the list of Web API wrappers on the spotify developers website? The library can ...
Hi. I've developed an open source library/wrapper for the Spotify Web API in Java. It covers all authorization flows and available api endpoints. Could it be included in the list of Web API wrappers ...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryFranceDevice(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueA LIFE IN SONGS is an interactive musical game, based on French variety music from 1940 ...
Plan Free/Premium Country France Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue A LIFE ...
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Hi. I want to build an app, initially on iOS, and I would like to implement a music player that uses the Spotify api. And as far as I have seen, I haven't come across this functionality. I think it would be a great feature to be able to create a play...
Hi. I want to build an app, initially on iOS, and I would like to implement a music player that uses the Spotify api. And as far as I have seen, I haven't come across this functionality. I think it w...
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I operate a service where we repeatedly fetch for our ~2000 users' recently played tracks. Occasionally (such as right now), the endpoint will still return data with 200 status code, but the data will be outdated (showing listens from 1-4 hours prior...
I operate a service where we repeatedly fetch for our ~2000 users' recently played tracks. Occasionally (such as right now), the endpoint will still return data with 200 status code, but the da...
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PlanPremiumCountryNetherlandsDevice(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueHow many times can i use the spotify API every day? I want to make an application that s...
Plan Premium Country Netherlands Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue How man...
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Hey guys,With a recent update, the Spotify app provides dynamic links for playlists such as https://link.tospotify.com/l272mCvFRbb and https://link.tospotify.com/bDUuTMCFRbb where, both lead to the same playlist. I cannot use the code at the end of t...
Hey guys, With a recent update, the Spotify app provides dynamic links for playlists such as https://link.tospotify.com/l272mCvFRbb and https://link.tospotify.com/bDUuTMCFRbb where, b...
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PremiumUSA Deviceiphone 12, iOS 14.2.1 My Question or IssueI am able to work with the API for long sessions where I can control the playback of songs and access the playlist info from my iOS app. Then, inexplicably, I lose the ability to authenticate...
Premium USA Device iphone 12, iOS 14.2.1 My Question or Issue I am able to work with the API for long sessions where I can control the playback of songs and access the pl...
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I'm writing a app to provide auto-scrolling lyrics for Spotify. For the best experience, I have to use https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/currently-playing to get progress_ms to know the precision position every 2 seconds (if the user made any chan...
I'm writing a app to provide auto-scrolling lyrics for Spotify. For the best experience, I have to use https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/currently-playing to get progress_ms to know the ...
Gig Goer
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Hello, My app is going to soft launch in 2 weeks, but I'm still waiting for the approval of commercial API. Please help. Thank you!
Hello, My app is going to soft launch in 2 weeks, but I'm still waiting for the approval of commercial API. Please help. Thank you!
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PlanPremium CountryGermany DevicePocophone F1 Operating SystemWindows 10Synology My Question or IssueProblem, when i put my PS5 in Rest Mode, and have enabled "Spotify Turns my PS5 on and Play Music", it will do through the App of my spotify app from...
Plan Premium Country Germany Device Pocophone F1 Operating System Windows 10 Synology My Question or Issue Problem, when i put my PS5 in Rest Mode, and have ...
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Hey developer/student/coder/data scientist! 六 Hope you are doing well (and your code's running smoothly!). Are you looking for datasets or more information about research at Spotify? Then check out this website: https://research.atspotify.com. Spoti...
Hey developer/student/coder/data scientist! 🧑💻 Hope you are doing well (and your code's running smoothly!). Are you looking for datasets or more information about research at Spotify? The...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueRemake of the ALBUM section of the LIBRARY.As it stands ot is no more than a variation of the...
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 Remake...
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Hello, I'm making an app which is getting tracks from the playlists and searching for the particular artist or song title (the request:https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/playlist_link). So, I've noticed that there's at least one playlist (called "Y...
Hello, I'm making an app which is getting tracks from the playlists and searching for the particular artist or song title (the request: https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/playlist_link)....
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Hello, I've been taking a look at the Android SDK web page and here it says "Works offline and online". Does that mean I'm able to download music through the SDK? If so, can someone send the documentation link to it? Because I can't find anything rel...
Hello, I've been taking a look at the Android SDK web page and here it says "Works offline and online". Does that mean I'm able to download music through the SDK? If so, can someone send the document...
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Hello, Im using Spotify's web api to essentially search for tracks, artists, albums and give the user more details about the song. For each song I include the Spotify logo as well as a direct link and have the 30 second preview url which a user can p...
Hello, Im using Spotify's web api to essentially search for tracks, artists, albums and give the user more details about the song. For each song I include the Spotify logo as well as a direc...
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Hi,I want to create a backend API that takes in a link to a public Spotify playlist (https://open.spotify.com/playlist...) and returns the data for the songs ( title, artist, picture, etc.)I want to make it so that the user doesn't have to log in to ...
Hi, I want to create a backend API that takes in a link to a public Spotify playlist (https://open.spotify.com/playlist...) and returns the data for the songs ( title, artist, picture, ...
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Any chance to have the Google Cast devices as well in the response of the https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/guides/using-connect-web-api/#viewing-device-list API queries?Currently only Spotify Connect devices enumerated it seems TIA...
Any chance to have the Google Cast devices as well in the response of the https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/guides/using-connect-web-api/#viewing-device-list API q...
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I have a problem with the player_state_changed event and I need help. My React application makes use of Spotify Web Playback SDK to play songs, but when I skip a song the player_state_changed event is triggered multiple times with some inconsistencie...
I have a problem with the player_state_changed event and I need help. My React application makes use of Spotify Web Playback SDK to play songs, but when I skip a song the player_state_changed ev...
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