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February 2026 Spotify for Developers update: thread

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...

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lionwest

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Web API "played_at" field is incorrect

Hello - we have an application that uses your Web API, and we started seeing an issue with the /v1/me/player/recently-played endpoint a few days ago.Specifically, the "played_at" field is now incorrect for listening activity, which also affects query...

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Hello - we have an application that uses your Web API, and we started seeing an issue with the /v1/me/player/recently-played endpoint a few days ago. Specifically, the "played_at" field is now inc...

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Solved!! Integrate spotify preview embed player

Hello!I want to build a social media app where people can the songs they listen to with their friends. At the moment the user would have to copy the song link from spotify and then insert it into my app. Then i would load the spotify embed preview pl...

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Hello! I want to build a social media app where people can the songs they listen to with their friends. At the moment the user would have to copy the song link from spotify and then insert it into...

Elias29

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Developer Terms of Service
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Get User's Top Tracks (short_term) returning empty results

Hey all — wondering if anyone else is seeing issues with the Get User's Top Artists endpoint when using the short_term time range? For context, we're using the /me/top/tracks endpoint with time_range=short_term, and while it was previously returning ...

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 Hey all — wondering if anyone else is seeing issues with the Get User's Top Artists endpoint when using the short_term time range?   For context, we're using the /me/top/tracks endpoint ...

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Help Needed: Spotify Device Not Available When App or Tab Is Closed

Hi everyone,We are a home and hotel automation company. We’ve recently introduced a feature where users can control their room ambiance using predefined scenes such as "Party Scene", "Morning Scene", and so on. When a user activates a scene like "Par...

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Hi everyone, We are a home and hotel automation company. We’ve recently introduced a feature where users can control their room ambiance using predefined scenes such as "Party Scene", "Morning Scene...

Ximzend

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adding playback equalizer you can save for different devices

PlanPremiumDeviceall devices Operating Systemall OS'sMy Question or IssueI advised this before with no such luck, but can we think about adding an equalizer 1, 2, 3, etc. Having different equalizer settings that can be saved for different devices/or ...

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Plan Premium Device all devices  Operating System all OS's My Question or Issue I advised this before with no such luck, but can we think about adding an equalizer 1, 2, 3, etc. Having di...

Ximzend

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Feature Request
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About Extension Requests

Expansion quotas have been restricted since May 15, but do we always have to have more than 250,000 MAUs? I can't submit for review due to 250,000 people even though I meet the criteria perfectly otherwise. Is this such an evil change? The documentat...

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Expansion quotas have been restricted since May 15, but do we always have to have more than 250,000 MAUs?   I can't submit for review due to 250,000 people even though I meet the criteria perf...

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authentication on android

Hi, My Question or IssueMy app is in react native however I am creating an expo module to use the android remote, but my issue is that my app isn't opening the auth flow, I thought it could be to do with passing in the wrong context but I'm not sure....

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Hi,   My Question or Issue My app is in react native however I am creating an expo module to use the android remote, but my issue is that my app isn't opening the auth flow, I thought it coul...

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Spotify in Home Automation

Recent API changes have made it impossible for Home Assistant users to automate Spotify playback. This breaks smart home workflows and has removed functionality that worked for years. Please consider restoring the ability to start playback on known C...

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Recent API changes have made it impossible for Home Assistant users to automate Spotify playback. This breaks smart home workflows and has removed functionality that worked for years. Please consider...

thlucas

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is_playable field returns incorrect result

PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaMy Question or IssueMy app calls the "playlists/tracks" endpoint to get a list of songs in the user's playlist. When it does this, it specifies "AU" for the market field. It then checks the "is_playable" field for each song...

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Plan Premium Country Australia My Question or Issue My app calls the "playlists/tracks" endpoint to get a list of songs in the user's playlist. When it does this, it specifies "AU" for the marke...

MrFitz

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Question related to Voice Assistant

PlanFreeCountryJapanDeviceAndroid deviceOperating SystemAndroid 14 My Question or IssueI read developer policy.Spotify Developer Policy | Spotify for Developers And section 3.3 said"Do not create voice-enabled SDA that enables a user to control Spoti...

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Plan Free Country Japan Device Android device Operating System Android 14   My Question or Issue I read developer policy. Spotify Developer Policy | Spotify for Developers   An...

SongFetch

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Exploring Smarter Music Personalization with AI – Integration Challenges?

Hey everyone I've been exploring ways to build smarter, AI-powered music experiences using the Spotify API. The idea is to combine listening behavior with external AI models (like mood detection or context prediction) to create ultra-personalized pla...

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Hey everyone  I've been exploring ways to build smarter, AI-powered music experiences using the Spotify API. The idea is to combine listening behavior with external AI models (like mood detecti...

Ximzend

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution "User not registered in the Developer Dashboard" error with additional users on app

PlanPremiumCountrySwitzerlandDeviceWindows; Desktop / PCOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueWhen attempting an oAuth request with Spotify from either a Node JS (using passport and passport-spotify node modules) or C# (using "AspNet.Securit...

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Plan Premium Country Switzerland Device Windows; Desktop / PC Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue When attempting an oAuth request with Spotify from either a Node JS (us...

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UNSUPPORTED RESPONSE TYPE

I, after countless hours finally figured out how to allow someone to login, but after login, the url does not contain the access token or any subsequent information, all it says after the original redirect url is #unsupported_response_type.

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I, after countless hours finally figured out how to allow someone to login, but after login, the url does not contain the access token or any subsequent information, all it says after the original re...

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API Endpoint to Pull Analytics, Usage Stats

My Question or IssueWe are looking to pull stats/data on number of followers, plays on our playlists. how can we get these stats from the API ?these are all public playlists on our channel. 31y67dlq2ud2ijmxo4dk4fnbq4nm

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My Question or Issue We are looking to pull stats/data on number of followers, plays on our playlists. how can we get these stats from the API ? these are all public playlists on our channel. ...

yaktam

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Error processing Spotify callback: 5 NOT_FOUND:

Developing an application that pulls artist data. But I can even get to that point. Im trying to connect to authenticate with firebase and Im getting this error proccessing Spotify callback: 5 NOT_FOUND.Ive been trying for days and cant get past this...

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Developing an application that pulls artist data. But I can even get to that point. Im trying to connect to authenticate with firebase and Im getting this error proccessing Spotify callback: 5 NOT_FO...

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me/episodes is full of null episodes

Whenever a playlist is removed from a feed, the 'stub' is left behind in me/episodes, causing significant bloat overtime of completely broken and performance hindered feeds. My last query for my episodes has most of the episodes now as null. I still ...

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Whenever a playlist is removed from a feed, the 'stub' is left behind in me/episodes, causing significant bloat overtime of completely broken and performance hindered feeds.   My last query fo...

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Error 429, leading to Disabled and Blocked app

Hi guys, I have been working on a web app that basically creates a playlist for a users. Recently my app has been blocked, I believe the issue stems from making too many API request in a short period of time and not handling the retries correctly. I ...

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Hi guys, I have been working on a web app that basically creates a playlist for a users. Recently my app has been blocked, I believe the issue stems from making too many API request in a short period...

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403 Error from /v1/audio-features on All Requests

I'm building a Spotify app using the Web API. I can authenticate, access my profile, and fetch playlists successfully. However, all requests to /v1/audio-features return a 403 Forbidden — even for valid, known track IDs (e.g., Eminem’s “Lose Yourself...

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I'm building a Spotify app using the Web API. I can authenticate, access my profile, and fetch playlists successfully. However, all requests to /v1/audio-features return a 403 Forbidden — even for va...

Ximzend

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Audio Features
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Persistent 429 (due to 502s) on playlist_add_items due to audiobook "chapter" type

PlanPremiumCountryFranceDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 11 Hi fellow developers and Spotify API team,I wanted to share a challenging issue I recently debugged with the Spotify Web API, hoping it might help others and provide some feedback. DISCL...

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Plan Premium Country France Device Desktop Operating System Windows 11   Hi fellow developers and Spotify API team, I wanted to share a challenging issue I recently debugged with the S...

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Solved!! INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid redirect URI

I am developing a practice using Spotify's API in SwiftUI. However, the API is unable to authenticate and returns only INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid redirect URI. However, the ClientID and RedirectURL match. If I set the ID and URL of the project I used be...

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I am developing a practice using Spotify's API in SwiftUI. However, the API is unable to authenticate and returns only INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid redirect URI. However, the ClientID and RedirectURL matc...

Ximzend

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