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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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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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Emotion Data

Curious: is there emotion or “mood” data available for every sing being played system-wide right now? It would be fun to build a kind of worldwide real-time mood monitor based on all Spotify listeners, then track and display it over time or possibly ...

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Curious: is there emotion or “mood” data available for every sing being played system-wide right now? It would be fun to build a kind of worldwide real-time mood monitor based on all Spotify listener...

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Terms: When I integrate Spotify into my app, does Spotify basically get all rights on it?

From Spotify Developer Terms of Service, III 4. License to Spotify: For the duration of this Agreement, you grant to us a paid-up, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, transferable, sublicensable, irrevocable right and license, under all of your i...

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From Spotify Developer Terms of Service, III 4. License to Spotify:   For the duration of this Agreement, you grant to us a paid-up, royalty-free, non-exclusive, worldwide, transferable, subl...

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Terms: Definition of "Integration with Third Party Services"

From Spotify Developer Terms of Service, IV 3. f. Integration with Third Party Services: You will not create any product or service by integrating the Spotify Platform, Spotify Service, or Spotify Content with (i) any non-interactive internet webcast...

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From Spotify Developer Terms of Service, IV 3. f. Integration with Third Party Services:   You will not create any product or service by integrating the Spotify Platform, Spotify Service, or S...

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[ALL PLATFORMS][SHOWS] How could i get from app or api property: followers for selected show ID

My Question or Issue Like in topic, i want to check how many people follows selected show, i can get that information for selected artist, but getShow endpoint doesn't receive any followers information.

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  My Question or Issue   Like in topic, i want to check how many people follows selected show, i can get that information for selected artist, but getShow endpoint doesn't receive any fo...

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Unable to connect appRemote on app after a while if Spotify is in background

I'm currently implementing the Spotify app remote into my application but after a while if the Spotify app is in the background and I try to connect the Spotify app by waking it up from my app, I get this error. Error Domain=com.spotify.app-remote Co...

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I'm currently implementing the Spotify app remote into my application but after a while if the Spotify app is in the background and I try to connect the Spotify app by waking it up from my app, I get...

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Spotify for R-Studio

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue I am trying to get a data set of musicians into R-studio and look to retrieve to the total n...

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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   ...

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Questions about the API TOS

So I just want to preface this by saying that this might be a longer post. I'm planning on making an application thst relys heavily on the Spotify api. I have three questions in total that follow. Okay so the first one is about your caching rules. I ...

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So I just want to preface this by saying that this might be a longer post. I'm planning on making an application thst relys heavily on the Spotify api. I have three questions in total that follow.&nb...

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iFrame shows track is not available when it should be

CountryUSOperating SystemWindows / ChromeMy Question or Issue Hello, I'm trying to display an iFrame with a song and when I try to play the song I get the message "This track is not available in your country". I can definitely play the track from my ...

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Country US Operating System Windows / Chrome My Question or Issue   Hello,   I'm trying to display an iFrame with a song and when I try to play the song I get the message "This trac...

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Not all Spotify playlists appearing in search?

Using the web API, I can only see 1438 official Spotify playlists (all the way up to "foodora dinner playlist"). I'm getting the playlists recursively usinghttps://api.spotify.com/v1/users/spotify/playlists?limit=50&offset=ifor i increasing in increm...

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Using the web API, I can only see 1438 official Spotify playlists (all the way up to "foodora dinner playlist").   I'm getting the playlists recursively using https://api.spotify.com/v1/users...

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Full song playback on react web-app

I want to create a React App that uses Spotify API. On this web-app, people could search for tracks,albums, artists etc and if they find something they like, they can share it on the feed so other users can see what they found. Also, the 30 sec previ...

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I want to create a React App that uses Spotify API.   On this web-app, people could search for tracks,albums, artists etc and if they find something they like, they can share it on the feed so...

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[Personal Project] What kind of authorization to use?

Hey, I have been working on a voice-command assistant (here's the github: https://github.com/JonasRSV/friday-voice-assistant) and I'd like to enable starting Spotify songs with it. When reading up on authentication flows for the web-api it seems as a...

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Hey, I have been working on a voice-command assistant (here's the github: https://github.com/JonasRSV/friday-voice-assistant) and I'd like to enable starting Spotify songs with it.   When...

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Solved!! Resolve link.tospotify.com to ID

Is there a way to get more information from the characters after "link.tospotify.com" via the API? Like the Spotify ID of a track. For example https://link.tospotify.com/TsNdTNARuab

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Is there a way to get more information from the characters after "link.tospotify.com" via the API?  Like the Spotify ID of a track.   For example https://link.tospotify.com/TsNdTNARu...

PMental

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Spotipy Web Application, how to retrieve OAuth code?

Hello all,I am branching out into trying to setup a Web Application for the first time, and I'm trying to make something with Spotify since I use it very often. I have a URL setup with my registered app on Heroku and I've got some barebones Python wr...

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Hello all, I am branching out into trying to setup a Web Application for the first time, and I'm trying to make something with Spotify since I use it very often. I have a URL setup with my registere...

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Track available markets sometimes empty list instead of missing

Hello,The `available_markets` attribute of a track seems to vary from missing to an empty list. This happens in the track call, when a market is specified. Previously I think the markets were always missing. It seems that often on first attempt the a...

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Hello, The `available_markets` attribute of a track seems to vary from missing to an empty list. This happens in the track call, when a market is specified. Previously I think the markets were alway...

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PUT https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play still works with expired token

Wanted to point out what looks like a bug with this endpoint. Steps to repro: 1. in a Spotify app, obtain an access token with the implicit grant flow (1h expiration I believe)2. Use it to create a player with the web playback SDK. Verify that you ca...

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Wanted to point out what looks like a bug with this endpoint. Steps to repro:   1. in a Spotify app, obtain an access token with the implicit grant flow (1h expiration I believe) 2. Use ...

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Spotify Error, Oops! Something went wrong, please try again or check out our help area.

I'm trying to use Spotify for Devs but every time i try to get my auth Token i receive this error, "Error, Oops! Something went wrong, please try again or check out our help area."The console gives me an error 500, i followed the tutorial step by ste...

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I'm trying to use Spotify for Devs but every time i try to get my auth Token i receive this error, "Error, Oops! Something went wrong, please try again or check out our help area." The console gives...

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How to remove custom playlist cover image?

How can I use the Spotify Web API to remove custom playlist cover image from an authenticated user that owns that playlist?

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How can I use the Spotify Web API to remove custom playlist cover image from an authenticated user that owns that playlist?

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maximum length of "uirs" payload?

Is there any limitation known for the "uris" payload in a "play" command? When I list very long arrays I receive an error, but I could never nail it down to length, or count, anything....

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Is there any limitation known for the "uris" payload in a "play" command? When I list very long arrays I receive an error, but I could never nail it down to length, or count, anything....

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API Access Tokens return different results

Hi, I'm using the Spotify Web API to search for songs (https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-search-item) I have a Client ID/Secret and I wrote Python code to retrieve an access_token using the https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token endpoint. Thi...

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Hi, I'm using the Spotify Web API to search for songs (https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-search-item)   I have a Client ID/Secret and I wrote Python code to retrieve an access_token us...

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