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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
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...
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...
My app is disabled and blocked and the email address for appealing is not showing up in the cases list when I click the "What does this mean" link. It says "Spotify has disabled your app. You can contact us at this email address if you wish to appeal...
My app is disabled and blocked and the email address for appealing is not showing up in the cases list when I click the "What does this mean" link. It says "Spotify has disabled your app. You can con...
Regular
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Hello, I'm trying to do an app counting the number of times a track have been played on several platforms. Unfortunately, when I'm trying to use recently-played-tracks, it is impossible to have more than 50 tracks. And when I tried to use Top items, ...
Hello, I'm trying to do an app counting the number of times a track have been played on several platforms. Unfortunately, when I'm trying to use recently-played-tracks, it is impossible to hav...
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A number of our and our clients' websites are showing that "upstream request timeout" error for the last 24 hours. It's a bit random (some releases are embedding fine, others have this error). We've checked the URLs and replaced from a fresh share li...
A number of our and our clients' websites are showing that "upstream request timeout" error for the last 24 hours. It's a bit random (some releases are embedding fine, others have this error). We've ...
Newbie
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PlanPremium FamilyCountryUSA DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueFollowing the documentation here: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/transfer-a-users-playbackIn the "try it" section of that page I get a ...
Plan Premium Family Country USA Device PC Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue Following the documentation here: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/we...
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My Question or Issue my playlist reached the limit of songs, i wanna split it by genres or by vibe, does it have like an ai that can do it or something?
My Question or Issue my playlist reached the limit of songs, i wanna split it by genres or by vibe, does it have like an ai that can do it or something?
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Request: Audio Features API Access for Academic Research (403 Error)```**Label:** Click **"Question"****Body:** Clear the template text and write:```Hello,I am a researcher at the University of Copenhagen conducting academic research on music trends ...
Request: Audio Features API Access for Academic Research (403 Error) ``` **Label:** Click **"Question"** **Body:** Clear the template text and write: ``` Hello, I am a researcher at the Univers...
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Dear Spotify Official Staff, We, as developers, want to develop a social Karaoke app similar to Smule or Starmaker. After searching the "Spotify for Developers" Website (Home | Spotify for Developers), we found Spotify is open to some business corpor...
Dear Spotify Official Staff, We, as developers, want to develop a social Karaoke app similar to Smule or Starmaker. After searching the "Spotif...
Newbie
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Since 2021-06-28 14:10 UTC I've started to receive random HTTP 403 errors for the following endpoints: /v1/me/v1/me/player/currently-playing/v1/artists/v1/tracksThe last two deal with public data, so technically they should never return error 403 in ...
Since 2021-06-28 14:10 UTC I've started to receive random HTTP 403 errors for the following endpoints: /v1/me /v1/me/player/currently-playing /v1/artists /v1/tracks The last two deal w...
Newbie
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Hello Spotify Developer Team,I have two developer apps that show "Disabled and blocked" status in my dashboard. I have not attempted to access any restricted/revoked data, and am fully compliant with Spotify's usage policy. Both projects are strictly...
Hello Spotify Developer Team, I have two developer apps that show "Disabled and blocked" status in my dashboard. I have not attempted to access any restricted/revoked data, and am fully compliant wi...
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My Question or Issue Hi, I have helped build a Christmas game for a client which consists of answering some festive questions, once a user has answered all the questions, we take the answers and use them to inform 'what kind of Christmas song' they a...
My Question or Issue Hi, I have helped build a Christmas game for a client which consists of answering some festive questions, once a user has answered all the questions, we take th...
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Hi everyone,I’m currently working on a Python project where I want to gather data about artists on Spotify. Specifically, I’m looking to retrieve:The “Artists Discovered On” section that appears on an artist’s page (the playlists or profiles where th...
Hi everyone, I’m currently working on a Python project where I want to gather data about artists on Spotify. Specifically, I’m looking to retrieve: The “Artists Discovered On” section that appears ...
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I'm working on a non-streaming SDA (currently a web app) that has to do with playlist creation. I'm interested in further developing this into a formal paid iPhone app, but need guidance requiring approval for monetization. I've reviewed numerous pos...
I'm working on a non-streaming SDA (currently a web app) that has to do with playlist creation. I'm interested in further developing this into a formal paid iPhone app, but need guidance requir...
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The Spotify track embed iframe appears to have auth issues on Firefox. Having the track embedded into any webpage keeps the track to the preview version instead of the full song. This happens regardless whether the user is signed into Spotify in that...
The Spotify track embed iframe appears to have auth issues on Firefox. Having the track embedded into any webpage keeps the track to the preview version instead of the full song. This happens regardl...
Casual Listener
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We are working on a group project that uses spotify embeds and the embeds are giving us upstream connection errors and not loading. I'm not sure how to fix this error or if this is related to an outage of some kind or not. We are kind of dependent on...
We are working on a group project that uses spotify embeds and the embeds are giving us upstream connection errors and not loading. I'm not sure how to fix this error or if this is related to an outa...
Casual Listener
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EDIT: I got it working. Used some work arounds and fought the APItooth and nail but finally got it. Reply if you need help! Making a Playlist manager with the Spotipy API and no matter what I do I cannot get the endpoint to accept what I give it.What...
EDIT: I got it working. Used some work arounds and fought the APItooth and nail but finally got it. Reply if you need help! Making a Playlist manager with the Spotipy API and no matt...
Visitor
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PlanFreeCountryUSADeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueI've built a python file that utilizes the spotify.py package module to make batch calls at specific times using specific artist ids. Working fine for weeks, no issue. An h...
Plan Free Country USA Device Desktop Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue I've built a python file that utilizes the spotify.py package module to make batch calls at spec...
Music Fan
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I need your help with my Spotify lyrics because it is not working
I need your help with my Spotify lyrics because it is not working
Music Fan
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PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDevice(iPhone 12, MacBook Pro 14-inch 2021)Operating System(iOS 18.7.1, Sequoia 15.6.1.) My Question or Issue Hi everyone,I’m seeing an issue with the Spotify Web API when adding items to a playlist.Here’s what happens:I succe...
Plan Premium Country Canada Device (iPhone 12, MacBook Pro 14-inch 2021) Operating System (iOS 18.7.1, Sequoia 15.6.1.) My Question or Issue Hi everyone, I’m seeing an issue...
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Would love to hear some sort of statement from you, Spotify. We've gotten nothing from you despite everyone's disappointment. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Updating-the-Criteria-for-Web-API-Extended-Access/td-p/6920661
Would love to hear some sort of statement from you, Spotify. We've gotten nothing from you despite everyone's disappointment. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Updating...
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In the new Mix mode, we can see the deprecated https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-several-audio-features in use.Does it mean we will be able to get it back to new apps too?
In the new Mix mode, we can see the deprecated https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-several-audio-features in use. Does it mean we will be able to get it back ...
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