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Updating the Criteria for Web API Extended Access

Hey, I created this thread to get your feedback on our blog post around changes to the Web API extended access criteria, which will take place on May 15th. Please share any of your thoughts on this change in the comments below. All of your feedback w...

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Basketball_66

Roadie

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Time for an update on API Approval times?

Hey everyone, I thought I'd share a bit of our journey in trying to integrate Spotify into our social music platform. Like many of you here, we've been navigating the mysterious seas of the Spotify API approval process. We get it, the approval team's...

Music Fan

Hey everyone,   I thought I'd share a bit of our journey in trying to integrate Spotify into our social music platform. Like many of you here, we've been navigating the mysterious seas of the ...

rotemd1

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Clarification on AI/ML violation clause, using my use case as an example

Hi there, To expand on my subject line, I'm wondering if my particular use case may be seen as a violation of the AI/ML clause, with respect to the ingestion of data. As such, my process flow involves generating a list of recommendations using parame...

Newbie

Hi there,     To expand on my subject line, I'm wondering if my particular use case may be seen as a violation of the AI/ML clause, with respect to the ingestion of data.    &...

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Spotify Developer Rules
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GET playback state and rate limits

Hi! I am looking to build a player as a hobby project that would not be too different from the actual Spotify's web player, but for real-time knowledge about the playback state I would need to poll the GET Playback State endpoint quite often. Will my...

Newbie

Hi! I am looking to build a player as a hobby project that would not be too different from the actual Spotify's web player, but for real-time knowledge about the playback state I would need to poll t...

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Spotify Web API taking forever to respond

Hi everyone,I just recently started using Spotify API for a personal project in Python, and I've run into an issue that I think might be related to rate limiting. The API has suddenly stopped responding, and the requests are taking forever to complet...

Visitor

Hi everyone, I just recently started using Spotify API for a personal project in Python, and I've run into an issue that I think might be related to rate limiting.   The API has suddenly stop...

bobdole203

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Web API `search` endpoint unexpected results.

Hi, The Web API's `search` endpoint is giving unexpected results. For example, the result is empty (even after the response code 200). BUT, with the same query on documentation playground, it does return right results. Even if I copy-paste the exact ...

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Hi,   The Web API's `search` endpoint is giving unexpected results. For example, the result is empty (even after the response code 200). BUT, with the same query on documentation playground, i...

Ximzend

Spotify Star

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Possible Bug
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Solved!! 403 code on PUT v1/me/tracks

When I try to save a track on a new account I get 403 code response but when I try to do the same operation with my old spotify account everything is fine, what can be the issue?

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When I try to save a track on a new account I get 403 code response but when I try to do the same operation with my old spotify account everything is fine, what can be the issue?

Ximzend

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Question API OAuth
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Can My Virtual Babies Play Spotify Music?

Hello,I am working on a project where I am developing smart virtual babies. I want these babies to connect to a Spotify account and play music. The goal is for people to listen to their Spotify music using these virtual babies.Since the babies won’t ...

Visitor

Hello, I am working on a project where I am developing smart virtual babies. I want these babies to connect to a Spotify account and play music. The goal is for people to listen to their Spotify mus...

Ximzend

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Device Integration
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Spotify Integration
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Smart Shuffle API Toggle

It's great that we have Web API support for seeing if 'smart_shuffle' is enabled through Get Playback State (even though documentation is out of date and doesn't actually show it as a field that's returned). However, we should be able to turn on and ...

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It's great that we have Web API support for seeing if 'smart_shuffle' is enabled through Get Playback State (even though documentation is out of date and doesn't actually show it as a field...

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Feature Request
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Extract metadata of podcast shows, with mp3 files all of episodes usinng API call

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueHow to extract metadata of podcasts with mp3 files.

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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 How to ...

Ximzend

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Podcast API
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Unable to hear any sound in spotify

PlanPremiumCountryIndiaDeviceRealme P1 pro 5gOperating SystemAndroid My Question or IssueI am unable to here any sound from spotify but my speaker is working in all other apps but only in Spotify no sound is coming even if it is connected with blueto...

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Plan Premium Country India Device Realme P1 pro 5g Operating System Android    My Question or Issue I am unable to here any sound from spotify but my speaker is working in all oth...

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Spotify OAuth invalid authorization code

I am receiving a 400 code response from Spotify when attempting to exchange an auth code for an access token. The authorization code is correct and works with my application. My frontend sends the auth code to the backend which has a view method that...

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I am receiving a 400 code response from Spotify when attempting to exchange an auth code for an access token. The authorization code is correct and works with my application. My frontend sends the au...

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OAuth
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Artists monthly listeners statistics

My QuestionHi there!I have been looking for API information to see an artist's monthly listenersI know this information can be found in a Spotify for artists profile, but I can't find a documented API to get it. Does anybody know how to do that? Mayb...

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My Question Hi there! I have been looking for API information to see an artist's monthly listeners I know this information can be found in a Spotify for artists profile, but I can't find a documen...

2XXL

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Monthly Listeners
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Individual statistics

Hi everyone,I’m wondering if there’s a way to check how many times I’ve played a specific song on Spotify. I’d like to see the playback statistics for individual tracks on my account. Does anyone know if Spotify provides such information, or if there...

Newbie

Hi everyone, I’m wondering if there’s a way to check how many times I’ve played a specific song on Spotify. I’d like to see the playback statistics for individual tracks on my account. Does anyone k...

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How to access "discovered on" through the API?

Hi, from what I investigated, there is no endpoint on the API for retrieving the playlists where an artist/song are featured in.Does anyone know if this info can be retrieved via any other endpoint, maybe indirectly?Thanks a lot

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Hi, from what I investigated, there is no endpoint on the API for retrieving the playlists where an artist/song are featured in. Does anyone know if this info can be retrieved via any other endpoint...

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Superuser Contribution api for music distribution

Hi,i'm starting a project for a music label. Initially it will be a web application MVP to distribute music like distrokid/tunecore.How to have/request the access to the spotify APIs to distribute music?

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Hi, i'm starting a project for a music label. Initially it will be a web application MVP  to distribute music like distrokid/tunecore. How to have/request the access to the spotify APIs to dis...

Ricardo1506

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api music distribution
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"Discovered On" playlists api endpoint

Hi there, I'm a developer trying to get the endpoint for a list of playlists found on the desktop app under artists. It shows the playlist titled "Discovered On"

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Hi there,   I'm a developer trying to get the endpoint for a list of playlists found on the desktop app under artists. It shows the playlist titled "Discovered On"

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Recommendations API: new-release seedgenre generating old songs

PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDeviceAPIOperating SystemN/A My Question or Issue I'm developing an app to create spotify playlists with help from the Spotify API.I'm using both the search and recommendations API route to do this, but when using the NEW-RELE...

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Plan Premium Country Sweden Device API Operating System N/A   My Question or Issue   I'm developing an app to create spotify playlists with help from the Spotify API. I'm us...

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API Bug
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Solved!! Private user auth access for backend services

Hi, I'm writing a backend Python service (using Spotipy) which will receive HTTP requests and post things, etc, and it will be deployed in a docker container in a server somewhere off my machine. It needs access to certain scopes that require auth i....

Casual Listener

Hi,   I'm writing a backend Python service (using Spotipy) which will receive HTTP requests and post things, etc, and it will be deployed in a docker container in a server somewhere off my mac...

Terpal

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Please Help : Quota Extension Request

Hello. I've submitted a quota extension on 27th June and realise the guidance says 6 weeks, and it's in midsummer break which sounds like we need to expect more delay here. Our App name is :Razer Axon. This is a wallpaper software from our company (R...

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Hello.   I've submitted a quota extension on 27th June and realise the guidance says 6 weeks, and it's in midsummer break which sounds like we need to expect more delay here.    Ou...

Chris_web

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