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Important: App review and quota extension waiting times

The Spotify for developers platform helps many bring their ideas to life. Whether it's a short term app helping an artist’s release or something more long term - there is always a chance of success. Things start to grow and then you might also need w...

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Inconsistent API behaviour when editing playlists

We've spent a few days debugging an issue with the /playlists/ endpoint, as we couldn't find the common variable. We finally found the issue, and its less of a technical bug and more of an API inconsistency / missing documentation. What we were tryin...

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  • We've spent a few days debugging an issue with the /playlists/ endpoint, as we couldn't find the common variable. We finally found the issue, and its less of a technical bug and more of an API incons...
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Building a website widget to display my recent favs

I have found an endpoint I would like to call on my personal website to simply display my recent favorites on spotify. The authorization code auth flow seems like the right choice for this scenario, however it's not clear to me how the auth flow shou...

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  • I have found an endpoint I would like to call on my personal website to simply display my recent favorites on spotify. The authorization code auth flow seems like the right choice for this scenario, ...
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Word VOORBEELD in Spotify link

PlanFree/PremiumCountryThe Netherlands DeviceIMAC 2021 VenturaOperating SystemSafari My Question or IssueAfter embedding the Spotify link into my Wordpress backend, still the Word VOORBEELD stays in the Buttom of the artist website.

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country The Netherlands   Device IMAC 2021 Ventura Operating System Safari   My Question or Issue After embedding the Spotify link into my Wordpress backen...
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Plays and streams not counted with Spotify embed?

I recently promoted my podcast website on Facebook and a few hundred people clicked my ad and visited my page, where I've embedded Spotify's episode player. I know many of these visitors played an episode because I can see downloads in my hosting pla...

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  • I recently promoted my podcast website on Facebook and a few hundred people clicked my ad and visited my page, where I've embedded Spotify's episode player. I know many of these visitors played an ep...
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spotify imbed on play previews

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueI have imbeded my spotify account to my website to offer background music but it only allows ...

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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 I have ...
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Discrepancy between recently played on Spotify App and API

Included here are screenshots for Recently Played as provided by Spotify App and the API endpoint that provides the same data with limit set to 50. You can see that on the same date, the app has more songs. Why is this the case? Shouldn't all access ...

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  • Included here are screenshots for Recently Played as provided by Spotify App and the API endpoint that provides the same data with limit set to 50. You can see that on the same date, the app has more...
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Is a timestamped player in react possible?

My Question or IssueI am building a podcast web app in react and wanted to implement an on-site player. The app returns podcast clips. I can't seem to see if it is possible using the Spotify web api to embed a player of the podcast at the exact times...

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  • My Question or Issue I am building a podcast web app in react and wanted to implement an on-site player. The app returns podcast clips. I can't seem to see if it is possible using the Spotify web a...
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500 / 404 statuses for currently playing / play API on my app

PlanPremiumCountryEcuador DeviceAPIOperating SystemHeroku My Question or IssueI have an app that was working 5+ months with no issues, now I'm getting 500/404 when retrieving current song and when playing a song, everything is in place so I would lov...

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  • Plan Premium Country Ecuador   Device API Operating System Heroku   My Question or Issue I have an app that was working 5+ months with no issues, now I'm getting 500/404 when ret...
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Two different IDs for the same Podcast Episode

Wondering why there are two URLs and two IDs for the same podcast. I have several exmaples of this, but here is one: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Zovhm9k4ZbBZhac2YMQvD https://open.spotify.com/episode/3AFGrYGhZTQpBeoCkIaquA Different URLs but th...

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  • Wondering why there are two URLs and two IDs for the same podcast. I have several exmaples of this, but here is one:    https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Zovhm9k4ZbBZhac2YMQvD   ht...
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Home Screen update

PlanPremiumCountryUSA Device(iPhoneOperating System(iOS 10 please tell me why you would push out such a terrible home screen update. It’s unusable. I’ve just talked to support and apparently there’s nothing I can do to get it back. There’s no way thi...

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  •   Plan Premium Country USA  Device (iPhone Operating System (iOS 10   please tell me why you would push out such a terrible home screen update. It’s unusable. I’ve just talke...
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Solved!! Invalid scope - Recently played

PlanPremiumCountryUnited Kingdom DeviceWindows laptopOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueI have been developing an alternative UI for Spotify to play with locally. I want to try and recreate some of the landing/home page and so I wanted to...

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  • Plan Premium Country United Kingdom   Device Windows laptop Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue I have been developing an alternative UI for Spotify to play with l...
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504 during call to getMyRecentlyPlayedTracks

When there are no recently played tracks for a user, it returns successfully. When there ARE recently played tracks, I receive a 504.We first grab the access_token adn refresh_token from our db for the user; create a SpotifyWebApi with client_id, cli...

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  • When there are no recently played tracks for a user, it returns successfully. When there ARE recently played tracks, I receive a 504. We first grab the access_token adn refresh_token from our db f...
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playCount in API

Hello, Is it possible to get the playCount in the API? I cannot find it anywhere, yet the information is listed on the website. Have I missed it somewhere in the API responses? Many thanks.

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  • Hello,   Is it possible to get the playCount in the API? I cannot find it anywhere, yet the information is listed on the website.   Have I missed it somewhere in the API responses? &nb...
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Using PKCE authorization flow, does the client ID and redirect URL need to be kept secret?

I am creating an open-source command-line tool that will be using Spotify API. For authorization flow I am using the PKCE flow with a client ID and a redirect URL. My understanding is that when I distribute my tool, both the client ID and the redirec...

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  • ...hem public. Given that for PKCE authorization the client secret is not required, is there anything that would stop someone else from using my client ID and redirect URL in a completely different s...
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How to display all episodes of a Spotify podcast in an embedded iframe?

I have recently embedded a Spotify podcast iframe into my website, but I am only able to see and play the current episode. I would like to display a list of all episodes in the iframe so that my users can access them directly from my site.Has anyone ...

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  • I have recently embedded a Spotify podcast iframe into my website, but I am only able to see and play the current episode. I would like to display a list of all episodes in the iframe so that my user...
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Spotify Web API respoding with 504 Gateway Timeout

PlanPremium CountryCanada My Question or IssueIn the past few days we have been receiving a lot of 504 Gateway Timeout responses using the Spotify Web API. We are trying to send the following request: curl --header 'Authorization: Bearer ' "https://a...

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  • Plan Premium   Country Canada   My Question or Issue In the past few days we have been receiving a lot of 504 Gateway Timeout responses using the Spotify Web API. We are trying to se...
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End of queue is ambiguous

The new "Get the User's Queue" endpoint is pretty neat: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-queue However, it has a small problem that prevent it from being usable in all cases. You see, the queue will usual...

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  • The new "Get the User's Queue" endpoint is pretty neat: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-queue   However, it has a small problem that prevent it f...
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API access for a commercial project

PlanPremiumCountryNorway Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueWe are developing and application that integrates with Spotify but have been rejected twice ...

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I have a question about the Development Terms of Use. / 開発利用規約について質問です。

I am writing because I was directed here by support.I believe the Stationhead application is a third-party application, but if this is allowed, does that mean that similar applications can be created?Specifically, I would like to create an applicatio...

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  • I am writing because I was directed here by support. I believe the Stationhead application is a third-party application, but if this is allowed, does that mean that similar applications can be cre...
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Artist earnings detail how artists get paid by Spotify.

I am working on a node js project and I want to get the artist's earnings details from Spotify.Is there any API or resource to get the required details of the artists from Spotify?

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  • I am working on a node js project and I want to get the artist's earnings details from Spotify. Is there any API or resource to get the required details of the artists from Spotify?
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