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Important: App review and quota extension waiting times

The Spotify for developers platform helps many bring their ideas to life. Whether it's a short term app helping an artist’s release or something more long term - there is always a chance of success. Things start to grow and then you might also need w...

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Dare to Be Different: Unveil Your Spotify Uniqueness Score!

Hello fellow Spotify developers and music enthusiasts!Today, I'd like to propose an innovative idea that could significantly enhance our user experience on Spotify: the introduction of a "Uniqueness Score." This feature would analyze a user's listeni...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello fellow Spotify developers and music enthusiasts! Today, I'd like to propose an innovative idea that could significantly enhance our user experience on Spotify: the introduction of a "Uniquen...
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Recently Played Tracks API Not Working

 As the title suggests, the Recently Played Tracks endpoint has suddenly stopped returning any results. Trying from the Sporify Dev console also returns the same results.   Has anyone else experienced this?

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  •  As the title suggests, the Recently Played Tracks endpoint has suddenly stopped returning any results.  Trying from the Sporify Dev console also returns the same results.     H...
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Bug with an API Recently Played Tracks

According description, the method "Get Current User's Recently Played Tracks" must return the most recent 50 tracks that played more than 30 seconds. In practice, play history isn't updated with any tracks 35-40-50... seconds. Only tracks that are al...

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  • According description, the method "Get Current User's Recently Played Tracks" must return the most recent 50 tracks that played more than 30 seconds.   In practice, play history isn't updated ...
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Upload Daily Podcast directly from datacenter

Hello!We like to upload, refresh and delete Podcast Episodes directly from our datacenter withou using the Webportal. Is it possible?Requirements on Spotify Side:- Server accepting Upload with ftp, sftp, sco, ssh, rsync ...- Authetification Key based...

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  • ..... - via API ?   Why? We have a running daily podcast system with episodes for Radio Broadcast. The public distribution is planned after the daily radio air time exclusive - relating on d...
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Cannot recive verify email in developer dashboard

My Question or IssueI press the verify button at https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard, but I don't get an email.The other emails seem to be working, so it's probably an issue with the `.dev` email, as I've had the same issue a few times on other s...

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  • My Question or Issue I press the verify button at https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard, but I don't get an email. The other emails seem to be working, so it's probably an issue with the `.dev` e...
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Commercial use of Spotify Web API

PlanFree/Premium CountryGlobal DeviceAutomotive Operating SystemWeb API My Question or IssueWe would like to suggest B2B partnership, we want to use Spotify Web API for commercial use. I read all legal statement of your homepage. But it's still not c...

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  • Plan Free/Premium   Country Global    Device Automotive   Operating System Web API   My Question or Issue We would like to suggest B2B partnership, we want to us...
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CTRL + A is not working any more on the windows app

PlanPremiumCountry : France Device: HP desktop (dragonfly)Operating System: Windows 10 My Question or Issue: CTRL + A is not working any more on the windows app! How to get this corrected?The help section (ctrl + /) indicates it should still be avail...

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  • Plan Premium Country : France   Device: HP desktop (dragonfly) Operating System: Windows 10   My Question or Issue: CTRL + A is not working any more on the windows app! How...
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Regional Listening Data

Is there a way to pull listening data from a geographic location (say a 5 mile area)? Or would one have to accumulate listening data over time and link it to an end-users location (with permission of course)?

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  • Is there a way to pull listening data from a geographic location (say a 5 mile area)? Or would one have to accumulate listening data over time and link it to an end-users location (with permission of...
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Get 500 Internal Server Error on https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/tracks

Hi, I'm trying to do a GET request on /me/top/tracks but I get a 500 internal server error.I first do a POST request for a bearer token:curl --location --request POST 'https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token?grant_type=client_credentials&scope=user-to...

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  • Hi,   I'm trying to do a GET request on /me/top/tracks but I get a 500 internal server error. I first do a POST request for a bearer token: curl --location --request POST 'https://accounts.s...
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API data fetch from label profile, label playlists

DeviceMac pro max m1 2022 My Question or IssueWe have different playlists that include only label releases. We run ads for those, so we want to know how many streams it's gathering daily, so we can cross data to know how effective they are. Today wha...

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  • Device Mac pro max m1 2022   My Question or Issue We have different playlists that include only label releases. We run ads for those, so we want to know how many streams it's gathering daily...
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    Stream count
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[API] Is there an efficient way to get a list of artists by the amount of liked songs?

The challenge: I would like to automate following artists for whom I have an variable threshold of tracks liked (in my liked songs). Or rather, I would like to search my liked songs and match artists that I've liked more than say 5 times and give tho...

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  • The challenge:   I would like to automate following artists for whom I have an variable threshold of tracks liked (in my liked songs). Or rather, I would like to search my liked songs and matc...
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Songs Play count

Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue :Is there's a way we can get the information from developers API regarding how many times a particular track has been played. Basically play count information of a track. Kindly reply if anyone has any...

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  • Operating System  Windows 10   My Question or Issue : Is there's a way we can get the information from developers API regarding how many times a particular track has been played. Basica...
  • karaon
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Search Endpoint Bug - Response Inconsistency With Bearer Tokens

The search endpoint is returning different responses based on the bearer token given. When I use the bearer token generated by the web API documentation interface at https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/search - I get results...

  • Casual Listener
  • The search endpoint is returning different responses based on the bearer token given. When I use the bearer token generated by the web API documentation interface at https://developer.spotify.co...
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  • Possible Bug
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Talking to a human regarding incorporating spotify into my game

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 need to speak to someone in regards to incorporating Spotify into my game.I cannot find a c...

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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 I need ...
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API retrieving my data not user data

My Question or Issue I created a small app. A part of it displays a list of a user's playlists for them to select from. First I had issues with users being able to log in again as I had a cache folder in my git repository that was pushing old tokens....

  • Casual Listener
  • My Question or Issue   I created a small app. A part of it displays a list of a user's playlists for them to select from. First I had issues with users being able to log in again as I had a ca...
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Getting Started

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 am a first year high school, computer science teacher. I teach a course called Programming ...

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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 I am a ...
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Get list of all genres/top genres?

Trying to understand how to get a list of all the available Spotify genres while using the "Get Available Genre Seeds" endpoint. Any suggestions? Furthermore, is there a way to get the top 50 Spotify genres?

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  • Trying to understand how to get a list of all the available Spotify genres while using the "Get Available Genre Seeds" endpoint. Any suggestions?   Furthermore, is there a way to get the top 5...
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Refresh Token 500 Serrver Error

My Question or Issue I'm trying to get a refresh token and on requesting it i'm getting the following response / server error. It says it can't remove the token? has anyone else found a solution? {"error": "server_error","error_description": "Failed ...

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  •     My Question or Issue   I'm trying to get a refresh token and on requesting it i'm getting the following response / server error. It says it can't remove the token? has anyone e...
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    Possible Bug
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Process music through machine learning model

PlanPremium CountryUSA My Question or IssueI'm a Computer Science major at my university and over winter break I want to work on a project that would use machine learning to transcribe lyrics for any song. Is there a way that I could use the Spotify ...

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  •   Plan Premium   Country USA   My Question or Issue I'm a Computer Science major at my university and over winter break I want to work on a project that would use machine learn...
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Monetization on Tiered Web app

Long time listener first time caller here, I am building a web application that I was hoping to enable playback of music via the Spotify Web API. I have read the terms a million times and see the examples provided, which means I can't charge a 5$/mon...

  • Casual Listener
  • Long time listener first time caller here,   I am building a web application that I was hoping to enable playback of music via the Spotify Web API. I have read the terms a million times and se...
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    Web API
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