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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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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...
Gig Goer
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Hi! Some time ago the link obtained through the option "copy link" in the button "share" (Album, Artist, Playlist) on mobile devices was something like:https:// open .spotify.com/playlist/1ifYNpMYGlOd3p7lcftdcS?si=hlr2fHNhThWCzmRYQTeiEw But now that ...
Hi! Some time ago the link obtained through the option "copy link" in the button "share" (Album, Artist, Playlist) on mobile devices was something like: https:// open .spotify.com/playlist/...
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We are able to get an access token using our client id and client secret from https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token We then try to use the access token as follows curl -v -H "Authorization: Bearer {TOKEN}" https://provider-api.spotify.com/v1/analyti...
We are able to get an access token using our client id and client secret from https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token We then try to use the access token as follows curl -v -H "...
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PlanPremiumCountry DeviceDesktopOperating SystemLinux/Windows My Question or IssueI want to control the running spotify instance from another program (steamVR), and on Linux, I can use D-Bus, on Mac, there's applescript support, but how do I do this ...
Plan Premium Country Device Desktop Operating System Linux/Windows My Question or Issue I want to control the running spotify instance from another program (steamVR), and on L...
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Basically just the title. When I query using the API with "q=genre:pop" the order of songs returned seems random.
Basically just the title. When I query using the API with "q=genre:pop" the order of songs returned seems random.
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curl -X "GET" "https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=popularity%3A90-100&type=track" -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -HI am trying to search for tracks with popularity between 90 to 100.
curl -X "GET" "https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=popularity%3A90-100&type=track" -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H I am trying to search for tracks with popu...
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I guess the Spotify Scripting Bridge "SpotifyApplication" is inspired by the one that is implemented for iTunes and i just cannot be greatfull enough for this, excellent idea and implementation! Any chance to have the @property (copy) NSArray *curren...
I guess the Spotify Scripting Bridge "SpotifyApplication" is inspired by the one that is implemented for iTunes and i just cannot be greatfull enough for this, excellent idea and implementation! &nb...
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I am building a CLI on top of this Node.js API client: https://github.com/thelinmichael/spotify-web-api-node From what I understand, I need 2 kinds of authetnications. One is for the app itself (described here), and one is user authentication (descri...
I am building a CLI on top of this Node.js API client: https://github.com/thelinmichael/spotify-web-api-node From what I understand, I need 2 kinds of authetnications. One is for the app its...
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Hi, it would be great if podcast statistics where available in the API. This would make it possible for podcast hosting providers to provide podcasters with a central performance dashboard. I know that podcasters are in desperate need of a central pl...
Hi, it would be great if podcast statistics where available in the API. This would make it possible for podcast hosting providers to provide podcasters with a central performance dashboard. &n...
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