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Spotify Soloist: a new terminal based player for headless and DIY setups

Hey everyone, we've created this thread to share details about Spotify Soloist. Spotify Soloist is a new, lightweight Spotify client for headless setups. It runs as a background service, supports Spotify Connect, and works on Raspberry Pi and other L...

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Gromushka

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S4D
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Web API quota updates for Development Mode

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 ...

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Guaruja20

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bug report

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 ...

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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 w...

Ximzend

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[Ads API] Aggregated reports date ranges issue

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...

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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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Superuser Contribution Monitor Playlist updates with web API?

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...

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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 ...

thomasa88

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Web Playback Deprecated?

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...

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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...

Ximzend

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snapshot_id not updated for https://api.spotify.com/v1/users/{user_id}/playlists

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...

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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...

thomasa88

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spotify api and mobile design

Planfree/PremiumCountry Deviceios/androidOperating Systemwindows My Question or IssueA way to add an iframe on mobile app?I'm developing a mobile app with angular ionic and i just want to show a podcast on an individual page, full screen but I'm not ...

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  Plan free/Premium Country   Device ios/android Operating System windows   My Question or Issue A way to add an iframe on mobile app? I'm developing a mobile app with angu...

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Remove “Hand-picked releases” filter & show all releases

Being a premium user I should be able to view all music releases. For a while now this has been switched to hand-picked releases that restricts what releases are available. PlanPremiumCountryAustralia DeviceMobile AppOperating SystemiOS , Android

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Being a premium user I should be able to view all music releases. For a while now this has been switched to hand-picked releases that restricts what releases are available.  Plan Premium Cou...

toocoolninjaboy

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“Search” “new releases”
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Consistent 404 from /v1/recommendations despite valid requests, tokens, and seeds

PlanPremiumCountry Device(Macbook Pro 2021)Operating System(MacOS Sequoia 15.3) My Question or IssueHi Spotify Dev Team and Community,I'm currently working on a music discovery project using the Spotify Web API and have run into a persistent issue wi...

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Plan Premium Country   Device (Macbook Pro 2021) Operating System (MacOS Sequoia 15.3)   My Question or Issue Hi Spotify Dev Team and Community, I'm currently working on a music ...

Ximzend

Spotify Star

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Possible Bug
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Authoriztion: Illegal scope/invalid scopes

When trying to use the authoriztion flow outlined in the docs, I navigate to:https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=[MY_CLIENT_ID]&scope=user-read-private+user-modify-playback-state+streaming+playlist-read-prrivate+user-r...

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When trying to use the authoriztion flow outlined in the docs, I navigate to: https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=[MY_CLIENT_ID]&scope=user-read-private+user-...

Bulbman

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Authentication Error when trying to create new playlist on my own account

PlanPremiumCountry: USA Device(Macbook Pro 1st Gen M1)Operating System(MacOS Ventura 13.0.1) My Question or Issue I am trying to write a python script that just scrapes other users' playlists and adds songs in them to my own playlist. When running th...

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Plan Premium Country: USA   Device (Macbook Pro 1st Gen M1) Operating System (MacOS Ventura 13.0.1)   My Question or Issue   I am trying to write a python script that just s...

Ximzend

Spotify Star

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Spotify Web API

Title: How to get track listener stats via Web API? Hi all,I'm starting a project where I need to display song info, including the track name, artist, and cover art, which I can see how to get from the track object in the API. My main question is abo...

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Title: How to get track listener stats via Web API?   Hi all, I'm starting a project where I need to display song info, including the track name, artist, and cover art, which I can see how to...

Ximzend

Spotify Star

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Randomly receiving "insufficient client scope" errors

My app is randomly receiving Forbidden errors while trying to add songs to a playlist, claiming I have insufficient client scope. However, not only do I have all the client scopes required for that operation, it also doesn't happen consistently! It c...

Roadie

My app is randomly receiving Forbidden errors while trying to add songs to a playlist, claiming I have insufficient client scope. However, not only do I have all the client scopes required for that o...

Selbi

Roadie

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Solved!! Possible outage

We're suddenly (as of this morning) finding that "next" field is in all cases coming back nil on the "Get Playlist" endpoint. Obviously a major issue on any playlist > 100 tracks. Can someone please acknowledge whether this is known about?

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We're suddenly (as of this morning) finding that "next" field is in all cases coming back nil on the "Get Playlist" endpoint. Obviously a major issue on any playlist > 100 tracks.   Can som...

MattSuda

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Spotify API quota extension

what are these changes to quota extension. does this mean, no space for new developers and creators? by this update, it seems the API is just available for the organizations with millions of traffic who can promote Spotify.creative and new creators? ...

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what are these changes to quota extension. does this mean, no space for new developers and creators? by this update, it seems the API is just available for the organizations with millions of traffic ...

kingykongie

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How to Reach 250k Active Users with Development Plan Limited to 25 Test Users

Hi Spotify Team,My team and I are working on a new app idea that integrates with Spotify in a creative and engaging way. Our concept involves allowing users to connect their Spotify accounts to our application so we can use the API to add tracks to t...

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Hi Spotify Team, My team and I are working on a new app idea that integrates with Spotify in a creative and engaging way. Our concept involves allowing users to connect their Spotify accounts to our...

kingykongie

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API Access
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API for commercials
API Help
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SpotifyAPI
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Superuser Contribution Get songs from blend playlist

Hello,I need your help, please. I'm trying to get the song list for a blend playlist using the Web API.I can currently get the list for a playlist I've created or added.However, for a blend playlist, I can't get the songs.Any idea on how to resolve t...

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Hello, I need your help, please. I'm trying to get the song list for a blend playlist using the Web API. I can currently get the list for a playlist I've created or added. However, for a ble...

LambertSpot

Spotify

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API Endpoint
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Illegal scope user-read-email

Hello, I have a Spotify Developer App that was granted quota extension back in early 2024. I am trying to use this app to impliment 0Auth. The only scope this requires is user-read-email, but no matter what I try, I recieve Illegal Scope errors. When...

Newbie

Hello, I have a Spotify Developer App that was granted quota extension back in early 2024. I am trying to use this app to impliment 0Auth. The only scope this requires is user-read-email, b...

Ximzend

Spotify Star

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SpotifyAppRemote Disconnects After Idle Despite Valid Access Token

I'm using Spotify playback in my iOS app.I'm using the Spotify iOS SDK, following the pattern shown in NowPlayingView. Everything works correctly at first:Authorization flow completesRemote playback starts via SPTAppRemoteApp correctly receives playb...

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I'm using Spotify playback in my iOS app. I'm using the Spotify iOS SDK, following the pattern shown in NowPlayingView. Everything works correctly at first: Authorization flow completes Remote ...

mattboy

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SpotifyAppRemote Disconnects
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Kind request regarding the Spotify Web API preview_url deprecation

Hello, My name is Sejun Park, and I live in South Korea. I’m currently developing a React Native-based application called “onetrack”, which actively utilizes the Spotify API. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------...

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Hello,   My name is Sejun Park, and I live in South Korea.   I’m currently developing a React Native-based application called “onetrack”, which actively utilizes the Spotify API. ...

glm__aln

Newbie

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Web API
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Solved!! Authentication error: Invalid token scopes.

HiI try to playback songs in my own app using Web Playback SDK.In the OAuth callback response I got this:credentials = {AuthorizationCodeCredentials@9873} "AuthorizationCodeCredentials(accessToken=BQBfqJ8***wnZUKg, tokenType=Bearer, scope=playlist-re...

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Hi I try to playback songs in my own app using Web Playback SDK. In the OAuth callback response I got this: credentials = {AuthorizationCodeCredentials@9873} "AuthorizationCodeCredentials(a...

manikanta20

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Question Discussion Bug
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