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Welcome to the Spotify for Developers board!

Welcome to the Spotify for Developers board! This forum is the place for conversations about Spotify's Web API, Web Playback SDK, Widgets, and other developer tools. Here you can ask questions about the Spotify platform, chat with other developers, a...

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WkWebView login issue 13.03.2023

PlanFree/PremiumCountryBY Device(iPhone 13)Operating System(iOS 16.1) My Question or IssueWe have faced issue with login thru WkWebView https://accounts.spotify.com/authorizeEach time we are trying to login, no code has been returned for https://acco...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country BY   Device (iPhone 13) Operating System (iOS 16.1)   My Question or Issue We have faced issue with login thru WkWebView https://accounts.spotify.com/au...
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Api for song scrubbing data

Is there an API that lets user fetch the timestamp at which the song has been scrubbed to the most?

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  • Is there an API that lets user fetch the timestamp at which the song has been scrubbed to the most?
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Google nest skipping podcast episodes

Plan: PremiumCountry: Taiwan Device: iPhone SE2 & Macbook M1 My Question or IssueThis issue has existed since last night. Whenever I try to cast my Spotify podcast to Google Mini, the podcast episode keeps skipping to the next 4-5 episodes. Also, Goo...

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  • Plan: Premium Country: Taiwan   Device: iPhone SE2 & Macbook M1    My Question or Issue This issue has existed since last night. Whenever I try to cast my Spotify podcast to ...
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Help me Lyrics song

PlanPremiumget(f"https://api.spotify.com/v1/tracks/{track_id}/lyrics", headers=headers)Good day brother, does anyone know if with the "get" instruction I can get the lyrics of the song from soptify to show it in my widget? The problem or error that i...

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  • Plan Premium get( f"https://api.spotify.com/v1/tracks/ { track_id } /lyrics" , headers=headers) Good day brother, does anyone know if with the "get" instruction I can get the lyrics of the so...
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How to interpret pitch and timbre values from audio_analysis?

I am currently working on a project that will read notes from a song, I would like to investigate the values for pitch and timbre, which are available in audio_analysis, in segments section, which is very convenient and great! But how do I interpret ...

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  • I am currently working on a project that will read notes from a song, I would like to investigate the values for pitch and timbre, which are available in audio_analysis, in segments section, which is...
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Help with some tracks with msPlayed: 0

PlanPremiumCountryMXOS W11 My Question or IssueI don't understand why in the StreamingHistory, some tracks have the field "msPlayed" with 0 as a value. Example: "endTime" : "2022-03-30 20:08", "artistName" : "Ludovico Einaudi", "trackName" : "Two Tre...

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  • Plan Premium Country MX OS  W11   My Question or Issue I don't understand why in the StreamingHistory, some tracks have the field "msPlayed" with 0 as a value.   Example:...
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Internet Radio Station Page

I have a inquiry. I run a internet radio station called "bravo Radio" We are a community ran ad free radio station. We play family friendly songs so you dont have to worry about wrong language in songs. I was thinking, we would like our own page. Whe...

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  • I have a inquiry. I run a internet radio station called "bravo Radio" We are a community ran ad free radio station. We play family friendly songs so you dont have to worry about wrong language in son...
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Against Spotify Developers terms and conditions to add song to playlist?

Is it against the Spotify Developers terms and conditions to create a code that adds a song to collaborative playlists? I thought the wording in the terms and conditions was unclear on this matter, and I wanted to check.

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  • Is it against the Spotify Developers terms and conditions to create a code that adds a song to collaborative playlists? I thought the wording in the terms and conditions was unclear on this matter, a...
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How to get user status without constantly sampling?

I want to achieve a result similar to Discord's Spotify status integration. ie. Be able to detect if a user is currently listening to music or not without having to do a GET request every x seconds. I looked through the docs and there doesn't seem to...

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  • I want to achieve a result similar to Discord's Spotify status integration.   ie. Be able to detect if a user is currently listening to music or not without having to do a GET request every x ...
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Store basic metadata for tracks/album/artist

Is it possible to store basic metadata for tracks/albums/artists in my db from Spotify to let my users create a sort of mood-board from their favourites. I won't be storing any user specific data from Spotify and just the Name, URL and Cover image fo...

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  • Is it possible to store basic metadata for tracks/albums/artists in my db from Spotify to let my users create a sort of mood-board from their favourites. I won't be storing any user specific data fro...
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Determine if the playing song was added by "Enhanced"

Is there an API endpoint that would allow me to determine if the currently playing song is "Enhanced"? Looking through the data returned from `me/player/currently-playing` and `me/player` I'm not seeing any field that seems to map to that (although i...

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  • Is there an API endpoint that would allow me to determine if the currently playing song is "Enhanced"?  Looking through the data returned from ` me/player/currently-playing` and `me/player` I'm ...
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App Seemingly Begun Failing

Hi, I created an app to automatically update the title/description/image of my playlist every minute. I have now run into an issue with the playlist that I cannot even edit it all, whether manually or with code. If I try to add or delete songs, they ...

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  • Hi, I created an app to automatically update the title/description/image of my playlist every minute. I have now run into an issue with the playlist that I cannot even edit it all, whether manually o...
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Song Lyrics

I know this is like I am just tossing this over the fence- but I was wondering on any links that might be had for?:1. Allow users to restart a song in "edit" mode where they can place and synchronize the lyrics. An addition might be to request peer r...

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  • I know this is like I am just tossing this over the fence- but I was wondering on any links that might be had for?: 1.  Allow users to restart a song in "edit" mode where they can place and s...
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Video Editor app for Spotify, possible?

I would like to create a Video Editing mobile app that enables users to add Spotify music to their social media content/videos. Is this permitted under the current Spotify terms of use? If not, are there any conditions or licenses that can enable som...

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  • I would like to create a Video Editing mobile app that enables users to add Spotify music to their social media content/videos. Is this permitted under the current Spotify terms of use?   If n...
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Api

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Solved!!Superuser Contribution [Community][Developer] Don't fail when using single quotes in the title for a new idea

When submitting a new idea on https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ideas/ct-p/newideas, the process fails when using a single quote (') with the following error:"Oops... something went wrong there. Please try again."Using firefox 109.0.1 on Linux Mint.

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  • When submitting a new idea on https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ideas/ct-p/newideas, the process fails when using a single quote (') with the following error: "Oops... something went wrong there. Ple...
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Issues with the /me/following/ Web API endpoint

Hi, Since last Friday (3rd March) I've been experiencing the following issues with the endpoint to get a user's followed artists: 1. The next and after paging cursor fields return null even though there are further artists to navigate. It appears to ...

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  • Hi,   Since last Friday (3rd March) I've been experiencing the following issues with the endpoint to get a user's followed artists:   1. The next and after paging cursor fields return n...
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Spotify Toolbar for Windows

Can we get a Spotify toolbar in windows taskbar?My Windows taskbar containing music controls will be more practical.Instead of keeping the app open in a separate window, I won't need to switch between my apps to change tracks, and I'll always be able...

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  • Can we get a Spotify toolbar in windows taskbar? My Windows taskbar containing music controls will be more practical. Instead of keeping the app open in a separate window, I won't need to switch be...
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App Token

Where can I find my app token?

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requests

i got a question so im creating an app that show songs duration and how much i already played and i need to send request more then every second but im getting an to much requests error maybe theres a way to fix that

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  • i got a question so im creating an app that show songs duration and how much i already played and i need to send request more then every second but im getting an to much requests error maybe theres a...
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