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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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Dover

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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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Request to Enable Access to Audio Features and Audio Analysis Endpoints for New Spotify App

Hello Spotify Support Team,I’m developing a non-commercial educational project called MyMusicMind that analyzes user listening behavior and provides insights and recommendations. This project relies on the Spotify API for accessing detailed music dat...

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Hello Spotify Support Team, I’m developing a non-commercial educational project called MyMusicMind that analyzes user listening behavior and provides insights and recommendations. This project relie...

mahuettm

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Clarification Needed: Education Project Blocked by Removal of Track Preview URLs for New Apps

Hello, I am developing a student educational project using the Spotify Web API to explore user-music interaction and personalization. The concept is a blind-test quiz where users log in with OAuth and the app retrieves short preview audio clips from ...

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Hello,   I am developing a student educational project using the Spotify Web API to explore user-music interaction and personalization. The concept is a blind-test quiz where users log in with...

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application authorization problem

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) I want to create an app/website that allows users to move their music between Spotify accounts, and I’d like it t...

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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.)   I want to create an app/websi...

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BarRaider's Plugin Streamdeck Validation Failed

I did all the steps, tried different browsers, validation still failed. And now the dashboard tells me I'm not allowed to create any more apps, because I created too many today. Super frustrating, how do I fix this?PlanPremiumCountry DevicePCOperatin...

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I did all the steps, tried different browsers, validation still failed. And now the dashboard tells me I'm not allowed to create any more apps, because I created too many today. Super frustrating, ho...

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Superuser Contribution My app is disabled and blocked, how 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 contact us at this email address if you wish to appeal...

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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...

rossJS

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API account
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count a number of times a music is played

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, ...

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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 hav...

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Solved!! "upstream request timeout" across multiple websites / embedded players / albums

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...

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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 ...

jma689

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Web API Transfer Playback returns 403

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 ...

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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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split playlist, sorting by genre or vibe

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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  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)

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 ...

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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 Univers...

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Potential Business Partnership

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...

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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 "Spotif...

Vijay7

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Superuser Contribution Some API endpoints randomly return error 403

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 ...

Gig Goer

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...

Malouette

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App status "Disabled and blocked" on two developer projects

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...

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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 wi...

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Guidance on showing Spotify songs on a commercial website

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...

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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 th...

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Artist Discovered Ons and Monthly Listeners Python

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...

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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 ...

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App development - Monetization

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...

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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 requir...

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Spotify Track Embed not signing in (Firefox)

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...

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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 regardl...

oscaracena

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Superuser Contribution Upstream Connect Error on Embeds

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...

Newbie

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...

SoulfulMedia

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Web API Add Custom Playlist Cover Image

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...

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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 matt...

EvanCNavarro

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Solved!! API rate-limiting excessively fast

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...

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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...

aderpynarwhal

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