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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
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...
PlanPremiumCountry DeviceAllOperating SystemAll My Question or IssueSo, kind of a policy/terms question I guess..I am developing a web application that allows presenters to create interactive presentations for family or small groups. The presentation...
Plan Premium Country Device All Operating System All My Question or Issue So, kind of a policy/terms question I guess.. I am developing a web application that allows prese...
Spotify Star
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryOpenOperating SystemAndroid and iOS My Question or IssueMy app would involve 30 or less seconds of playback. However, I want to be able to allow Premium users to get that playback (less than 30s) for all tracks, not just the on...
Plan Free/Premium Country Open Operating System Android and iOS My Question or Issue My app would involve 30 or less seconds of playback. However, I want to be able to allow Premium us...
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I am trying to create a website that allows users to generate a playlist based on their desired mood and genre. For now, all playlists are created and shared from my Spotify account. Eventually, I want to create the playlists on the user's account, b...
I am trying to create a website that allows users to generate a playlist based on their desired mood and genre. For now, all playlists are created and shared from my Spotify account. Eventually, I wa...
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Hi everyone,My name’s Daniel, and I wanted to share a passion project I built this summer: SpotiSnake. It’s a mashup of the classic Snake game with Spotify. You search an album, play Snake, and each apple reveals a piece of the album artwork. Every f...
Hi everyone, My name’s Daniel, and I wanted to share a passion project I built this summer: SpotiSnake. It’s a mashup of the classic Snake game with Spotify. You search an album, play Snake, and eac...
Casual Listener
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My name is Rachit Joshi I'm from Bangalore, india i am an engineer student of 1st year , and I’m passionate about enhancing the music listening experience through technology. I would like to share an idea that could add significant value to your plat...
My name is Rachit Joshi I'm from Bangalore, india i am an engineer student of 1st year , and I’m passionate about enhancing the music listening experience through technology. I would like to...
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i have created an app which uses spotify connection then i add spotify iframe to play songs at my app. but spotify embed only streams a preview clip of less than 30 seconds at mobile devices. how can i solve this issue? is there any possible way to p...
i have created an app which uses spotify connection then i add spotify iframe to play songs at my app. but spotify embed only streams a preview clip of less than 30 seconds at mobile devices. how can...
Spotify Star
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# Potential Security Vulnerability in Latest Spotify Linux ClientSearch git repo: CuB3y0nd/spotify-core-dumps## EnvironmentCheck `environment_info` file in my repo. ## SummarySpotify reproducibly crashes with a segmentation fault on Arch Linux. The c...
# Potential Security Vulnerability in Latest Spotify Linux Client Search git repo: CuB3y0nd/spotify-core-dumps ## Environment Check `environment_info` file in my repo. ## Summary S...
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I am now getting the 'Illegal scope' message. Please advise?
I am now getting the 'Illegal scope' message. Please advise?
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PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceiPhone 16/Galaxy S23 My Question or IssueHello, I'm interested in playing 30 second previews in my app from Spotify. I can use preview links just fine but am wondering if this is the right way to go copyright wise. They ...
Plan Premium Country Canada Device iPhone 16/Galaxy S23 My Question or Issue Hello, I'm interested in playing 30 second previews in my app from Spotify. I can use preview links just fi...
Spotify Star
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryUSADeviceMultiple desktop and mobile devices.My Question or IssueI have a webpage created to pull directly from my Spotify API. Currently, the whole is failing to pull anything. My team is spread across the US and we've confirm...
Plan Free/Premium Country USA Device Multiple desktop and mobile devices. My Question or Issue I have a webpage created to pull directly from my Spotify API. Currently, the whole is failing to...
Spotify Star
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Hello, I am wondering if it is possible to obtain section data (intro, verse, chorus) and bar changes for songs via the current Spotify developer API. I would like to be able to flag prompts in my web app in real time for section changes and bar chan...
Hello, I am wondering if it is possible to obtain section data (intro, verse, chorus) and bar changes for songs via the current Spotify developer API. I would like to be able to flag prompts...
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I was going through the Spotify API documentation regarding audience creation. I understand that the user list needs to be uploaded as a CSV file to a Signed GCS (Google Cloud Storage) URL. However, I couldn’t find any details about the required CSV ...
I was going through the Spotify API documentation regarding audience creation. I understand that the user list needs to be uploaded as a CSV file to a Signed GCS (Google Cloud Storage) URL. However, ...
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PlanAny - Use of the API only (Manly the audio-feature endpoint)CountryBrazilDeviceAnyOperating SystemAny My Question or IssueDear Spotify Team,My name is Mateus, and I am currently developing an academic project. The focus of my research is to explo...
Plan Any - Use of the API only (Manly the audio-feature endpoint) Country Brazil Device Any Operating System Any My Question or Issue Dear Spotify Team, My name is Mateus, and I am ...
Spotify Star
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My Question or Issue:Is it legal?
My Question or Issue: Is it legal?
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I've a website with some playlist ids saved in my database.I'd like to monitor my playlists positions among search results by given keywords for a few markets.I'm not planning to do anything else but keeping track of each playlist poisition change ov...
I've a website with some playlist ids saved in my database. I'd like to monitor my playlists positions among search results by given keywords for a few markets. I'm not planning to do anything...
Spotify Star
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PlanPremium CountryEspaña DevicePC / Windows DesktopOperating SystemWindows 11 25H2My Question or IssueHello Spotify Developer Team,I am trying to request a quota extension for my desktop application, but I am stuck in a redirect loop on the develope...
Plan Premium Country España Device PC / Windows Desktop Operating System Windows 11 25H2 My Question or Issue Hello Spotify Developer Team, I am trying to request a quo...
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I've been working on an app that recently got killed by the new extended quota requirements. I had the idea of asking users to create their own dev app, and then provide me the client id and secret, so that i can handle the refresh tokens for each us...
I've been working on an app that recently got killed by the new extended quota requirements. I had the idea of asking users to create their own dev app, and then provide me the client id and...
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PlanPremiumCountryItalyDeviceMac mini M2proOperating SystemSonoma 14.2 My Question or Issue Context- Timestamp: 22 Aug 2025 ~09:35 CEST (UTC+2)- App: new app (client_id ends with: ...dbd919)- Environment: Python 3.12 (Homebrew), Spotipy 2.25.1, macOS...
Plan Premium Country Italy Device Mac mini M2pro Operating System Sonoma 14.2 My Question or Issue Context - Timestamp: 22 Aug 2025 ~09:35 CEST (UTC+2) - App: new app (clie...
Casual Listener
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Hi Spotify team,Since around Aug 20, App Remote connect started failing in our Android app. We haven’t changed our code. The timing coincided with a Web API quota extension on our account. What we see:Silent connect fails with “Explicit user authoriz...
Hi Spotify team, Since around Aug 20, App Remote connect started failing in our Android app. We haven’t changed our code. The timing coincided with a Web API quota extension on our account...
Newbie
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My Question or IssueWe received feedback that our app does not meet the terms and conditions with reasons provided. The reasons provided are not true for our software and we reached back out. It has been 3 months with no response. What is the process...
My Question or Issue We received feedback that our app does not meet the terms and conditions with reasons provided. The reasons provided are not true for our software and we reached back out. ...
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