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Web API quota updates for Development Mode

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 ...

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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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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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Embedded player not working

Hi, I have attempted to embed a Spotify player on a website I am developing, however it is not displaying/working and is showing console errors. I would have thought this should be straightforward? Embed code on the website:alicemaserati_0-1602305510...

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Hi,    I have attempted to embed a Spotify player on a website I am developing, however it is not displaying/working and is showing console errors. I would have thought this should be str...

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Scopes for creating/adding to a playlist

hi there!i'm trying to create a new playlist with python and add songs to it. i have recieved an access token after asking for -playlist-modify-private+playlist-modify-public scopes, and now i can read my private playlists but cant create new ones or...

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hi there! i'm trying to create a new playlist with python and add songs to it.  i have recieved an access token after asking for - playlist-modify-private+playlist-modify-public scopes, and ...

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Superuser Contribution Website Spotify Embed not Working

Hi, I am attempting to embed the Spotify song player iframe on a website. I have copied the iframe code from Spotify and pasted onto my web page. However the iframe does not load and gives the following console errors:alicemaserati_0-1601886456976.pn...

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Hi, I am attempting to embed the Spotify song player iframe on a website. I have copied the iframe code from Spotify and pasted onto my web page. However the iframe does not load and gives the follow...

alicemaserati

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500 internal error using PaaS, working fine on local

Hi!I am developing a tool that takes songs of Youtube and creates a playlists in Spotify. I have run the application succesfully in local, but I get an error when I try it in Elastic Beanstalk, the PaaS of Amazon. I am using a Flask server and the Sp...

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Hi! I am developing a tool that takes songs of Youtube and creates a playlists in Spotify. I have run the application succesfully in local, but I get an error when I try it in Elastic Beansta...

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The OR operator in the Search API doesn't work

I'm trying to look for tracks by either ISRC ID, or by both track name and artist name, I try to do so in a single request using the OR operator in the search API endpoint but it doesn't really work. When I search by ISRC ID alone it works /search?ty...

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I'm trying to look for tracks by either ISRC ID, or by both track name and artist name, I try to do so in a single request using the OR operator in the search API endpoint but it doesn't really work....

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Having user ID in url for playlist returns error page

PlanNoneCountry DeviceAny mobile phone, desktop computerOperating SystemWindows, Linux, Mac, Android, iOS Hi,Inside of the app we have a place with webview and html for playlist like this:https://open.spotify.com/embed/user/f7y2jlvl3hdr6wh6blg2nef64/...

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Plan None Country   Device Any mobile phone, desktop computer Operating System Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iOS   Hi, Inside of the app we have a place with webview and html for ...

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Superuser Contribution Embedded iFrame Redirect not functioning

I've embedded the iFrame widget into the header of my website. But upon clicking the button, nothing happens -- it appears the redirect STARTS, but never completes. iFrame: HOWEVER, if you extract JUST the URL from that iFrame and paste it into a ne...

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I've embedded the iFrame widget into the header of my website. But upon clicking the button, nothing happens -- it appears the redirect STARTS, but never completes.    iFrame:  <...

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Superuser Contribution [Web Player][Developer] Cursor for 'Get new code' text in login through mobile number page

I have noticed a behaviour in spotify web Application. While logging in through mobile number "Get new code" text is not showing a anchor cursor tag (mouse cursor) rather it is showing as a text pointer. User might get confused whether it is actually...

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I have noticed a behaviour in spotify web Application. While logging in through mobile number "Get new code" text is not showing a anchor cursor tag (mouse cursor) rather it is showing as a text...

_milena

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Superuser Contribution 404 Error for /v1/me/feature-flags?tests=tps_send_all_updates

Plan: PremiumCountry: USADevice: Spotify Web API Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:81.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0 My Question or Issue:I've been getting the following error in my browser's console:"GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/...

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Plan: Premium Country: USA Device: Spotify Web API Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:81.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0   My Question or Issue: I've been getting the following...

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Solved!! No Option to Submit Apps for Community Showcase

According to the 2014 post by Chris Hughes, the following link should allow us to submit our apps for the showcase, but is now showing a 404 error: https://developer.spotify.com/community/showcase/submit-your-app/ Furthermore, the showcase page doesn...

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According to the 2014 post by Chris Hughes, the following link should allow us to submit our apps for the showcase, but is now showing a 404 error: https://developer.spotify.com/community/showcase/su...

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How to get audio analysis for podcast episode?

PlanPremiumCountryDenmark My Question or IssueI'm looking into the possibility of using your API and I can find an endpoint to get audio features for a track (here: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/tracks/get-audio-analys...

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Plan Premium Country Denmark   My Question or Issue I'm looking into the possibility of using your API and I can find an endpoint to get audio features for a track (here: https://deve...

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Solved!! Tracking Position in Playlist

My Question or IssueI am attempting to get the current position in a playlist as the playlist is played. I have ran into 2 issues.Issue #1: I get all of the playlist's track URI's and I get the URI of the current track. The issue is that the current ...

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My Question or Issue I am attempting to get the current position in a playlist as the playlist is played. I have ran into 2 issues. Issue #1: I get all of the playlist's track URI's and I get the U...

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Superuser Contribution Dummy premium accounts for library developers

Hello! I'm a developer from the rspotify library, a Rust wrapper for the Spotify Web API. I also worked on tekore a bit, which is another wrapper but written in Python. The issue I'm facing at rspotify is that to run tests that require OAuth automati...

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Hello!   I'm a developer from the rspotify library, a Rust wrapper for the Spotify Web API. I also worked on tekore a bit, which is another wrapper but written in Python.   The issue I'...

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Bad gateway

This is a really finicky error, and wondering if anyone else has seen it, and how to deal with it. For me, it's easily recreatable when flipping between the ios spotify app, and the web based browser application. For instance, when initially authoriz...

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This is a really finicky error, and wondering if anyone else has seen it, and how to deal with it.   For me, it's easily recreatable when flipping between the ios spotify app, and the web base...

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