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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
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 ...
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...
My Question or Issue I've been working with the Spotify Web API to retrieve my listening history, but I've encountered a scalability concern. Currently, the only way to keep my data synchronized in real-time is by implementing a polling mechanism tha...
My Question or Issue I've been working with the Spotify Web API to retrieve my listening history, but I've encountered a scalability concern. Currently, the only way to keep my data synchron...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry DevicePCOperating SystemWindows 11 Pro My Question or Issue help, I can't create apps because of this
Plan Free/Premium Country Device PC Operating System Windows 11 Pro My Question or Issue help, I can't create apps because of this
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Hi - Access token exportation is documented at 1 hour, but I cannot see anything indicating that the authorization code (i.e.: what is sent to the redirect URL after you point the user's browser to the 'authorize' endpoint). Does this mean that it's ...
Hi - Access token exportation is documented at 1 hour, but I cannot see anything indicating that the authorization code (i.e.: what is sent to the redirect URL after you point the user's browser to t...
Visitor
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What if your Instagram audience could automatically become your Spotify listeners? Here’s the idea:The artist links their Instagram account to Spotify (only the artist accepts the privacy terms).The accounts reached on Instagram are automatically cou...
What if your Instagram audience could automatically become your Spotify listeners? Here’s the idea: The artist links their Instagram account to Spotify (only the artist accepts the privacy ...
Spotify Star
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PlanPremiumCountryPeru Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueCuando uso en la PC y pongo a reproducir un álbum completo o playlist nueva, se reproduce en aleatorio automáticamente, y no me gusta tener que desactivar el aleatorio cada vez que...
Plan Premium Country Peru Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue Cuando uso en la PC y pongo a reproducir un álbum completo o playlist nueva, se reproduce en aleatori...
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Hi everyone, I’m currently trying to verify my email address in the Spotify for Developers Dashboard, but clicking the “Verify Email” button does nothing — I never receive any verification email. The same issue also happens when I try to log in to my...
Hi everyone, I’m currently trying to verify my email address in the Spotify for Developers Dashboard, but clicking the “Verify Email” button does nothing — I never receive any verification e...
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I am trying to get the total amount of the results of a call to the /me/player/recently-played endpoint but the property is missing in the response. The field exists in the docs.
I am trying to get the total amount of the results of a call to the /me/player/recently-played endpoint but the property is missing in the response. The field exists in the docs.&nbs...
Newbie
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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 relies on the Spotify API for accessing detailed music dat...
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...
Casual Listener
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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 OAuth and the app retrieves short preview audio clips from ...
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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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...
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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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...
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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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 ...
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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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