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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...
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...
I made a web application and recently it was approved for a quota extension. However, currently, there is an error message saying "Illegal Scope" whenever i try to authenticate a user via Spotify's OAuth. Am I doing wrong, it has been more than 2 day...
I made a web application and recently it was approved for a quota extension. However, currently, there is an error message saying "Illegal Scope" whenever i try to authenticate a user via Spoti...
Newbie
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PlanPremiumCountryPoland My Question or IssueI am done with making my app but now the question how to make accessible for everybody?
Plan Premium Country Poland My Question or Issue I am done with making my app but now the question how to make accessible for everybody?
Spotify Star
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PlanPremiumCountryCzech Republic My Question or IssueHello, I've been using Spotify API for some, but it stopped working suddenly. According to my investigation, my webhosting server cannot reach api.spotify.com and connection always times-out. DNS r...
Plan Premium Country Czech Republic My Question or Issue Hello, I've been using Spotify API for some, but it stopped working suddenly. According to my investigation, my webhosti...
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PlanPremiumCountryRomaniaDevicePC, Phone, CarOperating SystemAPI, iOS, Android, Windows 10 My Question or IssueThe API to get the currently-playing track responds with 204 code, and an empty response body even though songs are playing in the windows ...
Plan Premium Country Romania Device PC, Phone, Car Operating System API, iOS, Android, Windows 10 My Question or Issue The API to get the currently-playing track responds with 204 co...
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PlanBothCountryCanadaDeviceiPhone 11, DesktopOperating SystemiOS 15, Windows 10, Windows 11 My Question or IssueThe v1/me/player APIs are returning 204s when trying to get currently playing data incorrectly. There should be content and there is somet...
Plan Both Country Canada Device iPhone 11, Desktop Operating System iOS 15, Windows 10, Windows 11 My Question or Issue The v1/me/player APIs are returning 204s when trying to get cu...
Casual Listener
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PlanPremiumCountryIrelandDevice(iPhone 12, Samsung Galaxy S10e) My Question or IssueMy app relies heavily on the above endpoint to poll for the state of the Spotify player, which I do every 3 seconds from browsers on iOS and Android. On iOS I almost ...
Plan Premium Country Ireland Device (iPhone 12, Samsung Galaxy S10e) My Question or Issue My app relies heavily on the above endpoint to poll for the state of the Spotify player, which...
Casual Listener
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PlanPremiumCountrySpain My Question or Issue Hello Spotify team, My name is Hector, and my team and I have been working for four months on a music discovery tool for Spotify users. During this time, we’ve invested significant effort in:Designing an i...
Plan Premium Country Spain My Question or Issue Hello Spotify team, My name is Hector, and my team and I have been working for four months on a music discovery tool for ...
Spotify Star
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I have a web app (ampcast.app) with extended quota. When I start playback I see this error in the console: POST https://cpapi.spotify.com/v1/client/.../event/item_before_load 404 (Not Found) Uncaught (in promise) CloudPlaybackClientError: PlayLoad ev...
I have a web app (ampcast.app) with extended quota. When I start playback I see this error in the console: POST https://cpapi.spotify.com/v1/client/.../event/item_before_load&n...
Regular
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PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceHome PCOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI cannot create an app. I get an error message "Something went wrong, we were not able to create your app. Please try again later." I've tried multiple times over the co...
Plan Premium Country USA Device Home PC Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I cannot create an app. I get an error message "Something went wrong, we were not able to cre...
Visitor
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Please consider adding an option for true random shuffle, one that doesn’t follow algorithms or avoid repeats, just a purely random order every time.The current shuffle feels weighted or biased, especially in large playlists. I just want a simple, fa...
Please consider adding an option for true random shuffle, one that doesn’t follow algorithms or avoid repeats, just a purely random order every time. The current shuffle feels weighted or biased, es...
Spotify Star
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CountryIndiaMy Question or IssueHi, I am a student trying to build a small song recommendation project for my college. How can I get the authentic song dataset using the API?
Country India My Question or Issue Hi, I am a student trying to build a small song recommendation project for my college. How can I get the authentic song dataset using the API?
Spotify Star
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Yall should get rid of Spotify previews and add the HOLL song it is just so easer for everyone.
Yall should get rid of Spotify previews and add the HOLL song it is just so easer for everyone.
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PlanFreeCountrySwedenDeviceWeb APIOperating SystemUbuntu Linux My Question or IssueI'm writing a chat bot that observes a collaborative playlist and posts about updates. To keep the user experience good and interactive, the bot needs to know when the...
Plan Free Country Sweden Device Web API Operating System Ubuntu Linux My Question or Issue I'm writing a chat bot that observes a collaborative playlist and posts about updates. To k...
Spotify Star
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Hey all — I’m building a native iOS app that connects to the Spotify Web API to display audiobook metadata for books users already have saved in their library. We’ve implemented a hydration manager to avoid redundant API calls, but we’re still encoun...
Hey all — I’m building a native iOS app that connects to the Spotify Web API to display audiobook metadata for books users already have saved in their library. We’ve implemented a hydration manager t...
Spotify Star
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PlanFreeCountryUSDeviceWeb API Spotify Page I am using the WEB API for developers using search by UPC: 889176232909 no longer takes information. It used to work 3 days ago. I got an error no response with this seaerch query=upc%3A889176232909&type=al...
Plan Free Country US Device Web API Spotify Page I am using the WEB API for developers using search by UPC: 889176232909 no longer takes information. It used to work 3 days ago. &...
Regular
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Hi Spotify Dev Support,I am in the US using a personal Premium Spotify account. I created an app in the developer dashboard, set up correct redirect URIs, deleted all .cache files, and authorized with multiple tester accounts in development mode. No ...
Hi Spotify Dev Support, I am in the US using a personal Premium Spotify account. I created an app in the developer dashboard, set up correct redirect URIs, deleted all .cache files, and authorized w...
Spotify Star
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My Question or IssueAggregated reports endpoint behaves weirdly when the report_start and report_end are exactly 90 days apart and the granularity is set to LIFETIME. API v2 returns 'Invalid argument' error message, and API v3 returns "Unknown intern...
My Question or Issue Aggregated reports endpoint behaves weirdly when the report_start and report_end are exactly 90 days apart and the granularity is set to LIFETIME. API v2 returns 'Invalid argume...
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I'm using the web api to provide updates to a chat when songs are added or removed to a specific playlist. Today, I am polling every few minutes to look for any changes in the playlist. Is there any api to get a delta either by polling or by a hook?I...
I'm using the web api to provide updates to a chat when songs are added or removed to a specific playlist. Today, I am polling every few minutes to look for any changes in the playlist. Is there any ...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceBrowser (Chrome)Operating SystemIOS My Question or IssueI'm trying to call up the web playback sdk to play songs in the browser. Following the guidance I created an access token with the following scopes (streaming user-read...
Plan Premium Country US Device Browser (Chrome) Operating System IOS My Question or Issue I'm trying to call up the web playback sdk to play songs in the browser. Following the guida...
Spotify Star
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Discovered an issue where the snapshot_id is not updated for the endpoint https://api.spotify.com/v1/users/{user_id}/playlists When fetching my Discovered Weekly playlist and comparing it to the cached one, they have the same snapshot_id, but when lo...
Discovered an issue where the snapshot_id is not updated for the endpoint https://api.spotify.com/v1/users/{user_id}/playlists When fetching my Discovered Weekly playlist and comparing it to...
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