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Updating the Criteria for Web API Extended Access

Hey, I created this thread to get your feedback on our blog post around changes to the Web API extended access criteria, which will take place on May 15th. Please share any of your thoughts on this change in the comments below. All of your feedback w...

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DJSHARON

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Superuser Contribution 30s Preview_Url Depriciated

My Question or Issue Hi I currently have an application that uses 30s preivew_urls in the app when making in multi-get responses. They released a blog post (https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2024-11-27-changes-to-the-web-api) talking about how this ...

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My Question or Issue   Hi I currently have an application that uses 30s preivew_urls in the app when making in multi-get responses. They released a blog post (https://developer.spotify.co...

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What scopes require an compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

We didn't get our product integrated with spotify due to a lack of an US infringement agent, a "note & take down" policy and a infringement policy. Is this required for all scopes or just the ones regarding privacy? We simply want people to share wha...

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We didn't get our product integrated with spotify due to a lack of an US infringement agent, a "note & take down" policy and a infringement policy. Is this required for all scopes or just the one...

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Does my project fall under the category of "game"?

I'm looking at creating an app that allows users to create and join "contests", where each user submits a selection of songs and then the participants listen to each song and vote on how much they like/dislike a given song. Each contest would have it...

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I'm looking at creating an app that allows users to create and join "contests", where each user submits a selection of songs and then the participants listen to each song and vote on how much they li...

Ximzend

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deprecated Key and tempo

Now that the audio features and audio analysis are removed..same with preview url too, is it possible to get any of them as a paid service?

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Now that the audio features and audio analysis are removed..same with preview url too, is it possible to get any of them as a paid service?

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top-tracks endpoint returns incorrect popularity for songs

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueThe ./top-tracks endpoint returns an incorrect popularity for songs that are released both as...

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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 The ./t...

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Total search results differ from actually retrieved results

As the title says, I search with Spotipy for X band and I get e.g. 1000 results from the search query, but when I try to iterate over those I get only 700.Seems to be a known bug for a while. Is there a work around for that or should I make peace wit...

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As the title says, I search with Spotipy for X band and I get e.g. 1000 results from the search query, but when I try to iterate over those I get only 700. Seems to be a known bug for a while. Is ...

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Cover art and Profile picture resizing

Looking for some clarification on the rules for resizing album covers and profile pictures from the web API. I want to resize them but keep the aspect ratio and everything else the same. I see that images are often returned in 2 or 3 sizes such as 64...

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Looking for some clarification on the rules for resizing album covers and profile pictures from the web API. I want to resize them but keep the aspect ratio and everything else the same. I see that i...

Ximzend

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[Android] SpotifyAppRemote doesn't call onConnected

PlanPremiumCountryNetherlandsDeviceOneplus 8TOperating SystemAndroid 14 My Question or IssueHi, I am trying to make a simple app that can scan a qr code and use the qr code info to start playing a song on Spotify in the background.(I am a total andro...

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Plan Premium Country Netherlands Device Oneplus 8T Operating System Android 14   My Question or Issue Hi, I am trying to make a simple app that can scan a qr code and use the qr code i...

artibarti

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me/tracks consistently returns 502 for user with many liked songs

Hi, I have a user using my app who has about 48000 liked songs. When I try to make a call to https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/tracks?offset=0&limit=1 on behalf of the user, i.e., retrieving the latest liked song for the user, I consistently get 502 retu...

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Hi, I have a user using my app who has about 48000 liked songs. When I try to make a call to  https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/tracks?offset=0&limit=1 on behalf of the user, i.e., retrieving th...

Lethalpaintball

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Looking for Assistance with Accessing Music Streaming Datasets

I am looking to get access to these Spotify datasets:The Million Playlist DatasetWSDM Cup: The Music Streaming Sessions DatasetOne of these datasets was mentioned in the paper, The Music Streaming Sessions Dataset, while the other is not explcitly as...

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I am looking to get access to these Spotify datasets: The Million Playlist Dataset WSDM Cup: The Music Streaming Sessions Dataset One of these datasets was mentioned in the paper, The Musi...

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429 errors on Embed album

I have embed the Spotify links to my own songs (x 55) on my website using the /share/Embed album tool in Spotify. I thought this was a really cool feature and presents the material well. However, as soon as I got the last code added, all the links cr...

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I have embed the Spotify links to my own songs (x 55) on my website using the /share/Embed album tool in Spotify. I thought this was a really cool feature and presents the material well. However, as ...

Ximzend

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My Extended Listening History does not show what user played each song. why

I looked at the "Read Me First" file when I downloaded my listening history. It gave me an overview of what to expect from my download and everything. When I looked at it, it didn't say which user was playing the song, which should've been posted as ...

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I looked at the "Read Me First" file when I downloaded my listening history. It gave me an overview of what to expect from my download and everything. When I looked at it, it didn't say which user wa...

Ximzend

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Fastly CDN is returning non-working IPs, causing timeouts, but just for our Company

We connect (info gained from Chrome Dev Tools) to open.spotify.com, which refers to open.spotifycdn.com, which we can't connect to. open.spotifycdn.com points to (currently) tls130rtt.spotifycdn.map.fastly.net From other places on the internet, this ...

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We connect (info gained from Chrome Dev Tools) to open.spotify.com, which refers to open.spotifycdn.com, which we can't connect to.   open.spotifycdn.com points to (currently) tls130rtt.spotif...

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Implicit Grant Flow doesn't redirect with respect to the #hash in the redirect url

I set and use the callback url "https://local.test:5500/#/callback", which works in the sense that the url is accepted as valid. But the #/callback part is stripped off and spotify redirects to "https://local.test:5500/#access_token=..." instead. I c...

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I set and use the callback url "https://local.test:5500/#/callback", which works in the sense that the url is accepted as valid. But the #/callback part is stripped off and spotify redirects to ...

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Create Playlist for other user doesn't work

I confirmed this through https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/create-playlist May I know why it doesn't work in the docs? That would be a great starting point to fix first before I doubt myself of doing something wrong.

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I confirmed this through https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/create-playlist  May I know why it doesn't work in the docs? That would be a great starting point t...

Ximzend

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please bring back audio analysis :(

Is there no hope for a return of the audio analysis and audio features endpoints? Even greatly rate limited? I was building something beautiful to share with my friends and now my dream is dead. If it were limited to, say, 50 requests an hour, how co...

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Is there no hope for a return of the audio analysis and audio features endpoints? Even greatly rate limited? I was building something beautiful to share with my friends and now my dream is dead. If i...

JohnnyD4

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Sharing playlist

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueI'm interested in creating an app that will allow users to listen to another Soptify Prem use...

Casual Listener

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 I'm int...

MarlaMM

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Can Automation and Scripting Enhance User Experience on Music Streaming Platforms?

Hello, everyone!I’ve been exploring different ways to enhance user experiences on platforms like Spotify, and it got me thinking—while tools like auto-execution scripts are commonly used in gaming, is there a potential application for similar automat...

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Hello, everyone! I’ve been exploring different ways to enhance user experiences on platforms like Spotify, and it got me thinking—while tools like auto-execution scripts  are commonly used in g...

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API for downloading user playlists returns incomplete list

I regularly download a list of all my personal favorite tracks, albums, and playlists. Recently, for a month or so, all playlists with an ID starting with 37i9dQZF are missing, in my case nearly 200. Please fix this.

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I regularly download a list of all my personal favorite tracks, albums, and playlists. Recently, for a month or so, all playlists with an ID starting with 37i9dQZF are missing, in my case nearly 200....

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ISSUE with Audio features

Im trying to make a get request for audio features of a song. Even though the token isnt expired and the scope is correct, i still get forbidden error message. The message still says token not provided which isnt true. I think some changes might have...

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Im trying to make a get request for audio features of a song. Even though the token isnt expired and the scope is correct, i still get forbidden error message. The message still says token not provid...

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Feature Request
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