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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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Solved!! The Web Playback SDK seems to no longer work on Android.

I am a Spotify Premium user. I developed a web app in Angular that was working perfectly until now. This web app uses the Web Playback SDK, which also worked flawlessly. It had been some time since I last tested my web app, and upon logging in today,...

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I am a Spotify Premium user.   I developed a web app in Angular that was working perfectly until now. This web app uses the Web Playback SDK, which also worked flawlessly. It had been some tim...

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How to avoid 403 Error with Implicit Grant Flow Auth

Hello everybody, I am currently developing a static webapp with html, js and css. I am using Implicit Grant Flow as authorization and everything worked fine. However, when my friend tried to test the app, nothing worked.I quickly found out that it wa...

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Hello everybody,   I am currently developing a static webapp with html, js and css. I am using Implicit Grant Flow as authorization and everything worked fine. However, when my friend tried to...

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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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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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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...

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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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Solved!! Spotify app

PlanPremiumCountryUk My Question or IssueI want to make a website that allows users to create a playlist through the website on Spotify. However, currently every time someone tries to make a playlist it will make it on my account as its my client id ...

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  Plan Premium Country Uk   My Question or Issue I want to make a website that allows users to create a playlist through the website on Spotify. However, currently every time someone...

Ximzend

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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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Get Recently Played Tracks and Get Track are missing UPC, Popularity, and other info from Get Album

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-recently-played https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-an-album https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-track When using the get-re...

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https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-recently-played  https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-an-album  https://developer.spotify.co...

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Superuser Contribution Issues with Third-Party Tool Integration and Spotify API

Hi everyone,I’ve been working on a project that involves using the Spotify API to manage playlists and analyze data, but I’ve run into a few challenges. Specifically, I’m noticing some delays and occasional errors when trying to sync real-time change...

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Hi everyone, I’ve been working on a project that involves using the Spotify API to manage playlists and analyze data, but I’ve run into a few challenges. Specifically, I’m noticing some delays and o...

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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...

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Android SDK Built-in Auth Flow Not Working

PlanPremiumCountryHungaryDeviceSamsung Galaxy S22 My Question or IssueI am making a simple Android app relying on the Spotify SDK. I tried to make the sample app work from here: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/android/tutorials/getting-st...

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Plan Premium Country Hungary Device Samsung Galaxy S22   My Question or Issue I am making a simple Android app relying on the Spotify SDK. I tried to make the sample app work from here:&...

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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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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...

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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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(Current) User's Playlist doesn't list Spotify owned playlists (e.g. Your Top Songs/Wrapped)

Neither https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/playlists nor https://api.spotify.com/v1/users/{user_id}/playlists gives me a full list of my saved playlists. Trying to get my Wrapped Playlist using https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/{playlist_id} also doesn...

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Neither https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/playlists nor https://api.spotify.com/v1/users/{user_id}/playlists gives me a full list of my saved playlists. Trying to get my Wrapped Playl...

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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...

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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...

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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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