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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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Which React Frameworks and Libraries Should Use in 2024

React, or ReactJs is one of the most popular JavaScript front-end libraries for developing amazing user interfaces. Today, more than 40% of developers prefer ReactJs. One of the key reasons for its immense popularity is its wide range of React framew...

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React, or ReactJs is one of the most popular JavaScript front-end libraries for developing amazing user interfaces.   Today, more than 40% of developers prefer ReactJs. One of ...

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Is there a way to turn recommendations off for a playlist?

My workout playlist has fast beat music with a pulse that gets me moving, and the recommendations being made to that playlist are frankly are really annoying, when I want to be listening to just the specific songs I've selected. I do like recommendat...

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My workout playlist has fast beat music with a pulse that gets me moving, and the recommendations being made to that playlist are frankly are really annoying, when I want to be listening to just the ...

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Solved!! Şarkı ve şarkıcı ismi

ÜlkeTürkiyeAygıt(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro 2016 sonları)İşletim Sistemi(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 11, vb.) Sorum veya sorunumBir önerim olacak, şarkıyı kulaklıkla dışarıda dinlerken haliyle görmediğimiz zamanlarda şarkı girişinde ki...

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Ülke Türkiye Aygıt (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro 2016 sonları) İşletim Sistemi (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 11, vb.)   Sorum veya sorunum Bir önerim olacak, şarkıyı kulaklık...

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Spotify Album Embed only playing preview even though logged in

Seemingly overnight, the Spotify Player Embed for Albums will only operate in preview mode, even if I am logged in. I have successfully embedded the player in my React App, and it's ALWAYS played the albums in their entirety if I am logged in. I have...

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Seemingly overnight, the Spotify Player Embed for Albums will only operate in preview mode, even if I am logged in.  I have successfully embedded the player in my React App, and it's ALWAYS play...

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Is there a way to gather Release Countdowns from the API?

I've looked at albums and artists APIs but upcoming albums don't seem to show up on those public APIs despite seeing the countdown on the page. I get a 404 when using the ID for an upcoming album from the album API. I understand this from the perspec...

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I've looked at albums and artists APIs but upcoming albums don't seem to show up on those public APIs despite seeing the countdown on the page. I get a 404 when using the ID for an upcoming album fro...

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Invalid access token

PlanFreeCountryUSDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows10 My Question or IssueI copied the exact code and run Curl in cmd, but response was not successful.I logged out and rerun with no avail. C:\Users\USER>curl --request GET --url https://api.spotify....

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Plan Free Country US Device Desktop Operating System Windows10   My Question or Issue I copied the exact code and run Curl in cmd, but response was not successful. I logged out and re...

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Help with 429 Error Code on Search Requests Despite Lowered Traffic and Extended Quota

Hi Spotify Developer Community, I’m encountering an issue with the Spotify API and would appreciate any guidance or support. Our service, which relies heavily on the Search API, has recently started receiving 429 error codes (Rate Limit Exceeded) for...

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Hi Spotify Developer Community,   I’m encountering an issue with the Spotify API and would appreciate any guidance or support.   Our service, which relies heavily on the Search API, has...

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Sending Audio Features through Machine Learning Model

PlanFreeCountryUnited States My Question or IssueFor a personal project, I wanted to use a pre-trained ML model to run predictions off of the audio features of a song. I won't be using the audio features to train the model or even update it in the fu...

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Plan Free Country United States   My Question or Issue For a personal project, I wanted to use a pre-trained ML model to run predictions off of the audio features of a song. I won't be usi...

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spotify webapi auth and requests

for the past few weeks ive been trying to implement spotify webapi on my app to auth users, get their pfp and handler and also get their currently playing track name and artist name but had no success. id appreciate any help.AuthViewModel:package com...

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for the past few weeks ive been trying to implement spotify webapi on my app to auth users, get their pfp and handler and also get their currently playing track name and artist name but had no succes...

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200 returned instead of advertised 204

Both Add Item to Playback Queue (POST me/player/queue) and Skip To Next (POST me/player/next) are advertised to return a 204 if everything went okay, however they currently return a 200 including some undocumented response.

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Both Add Item to Playback Queue (POST me/player/queue) and Skip To Next (POST me/player/next) are advertised to return a 204 if everything went okay, however they currently return a 200 including som...

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Access to iOS/Android streaming SDKs

To the Spotify team, Looks like Spotify is cutting access to the iOS/Android mobile streaming SDKs per recent news announcement: https://developer.spotify.com/community/news/2022/07/15/mobile-streaming-sdks-update/ While Spotify has been advertising ...

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To the Spotify team,   Looks like Spotify is cutting access to the iOS/Android mobile streaming SDKs per recent news announcement:   https://developer.spotify.com/community/news/2022/07...

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i have idea to improve your app that is adding ai in your app

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue

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Superuser Contribution See the authorization window directly in the Spotify application

We are developing a mobile application but since Web API is much easier to use and has many examples, we plan to proceed via Web API.Everything is going great, granting permission to the application, getting tokens, using tokens etc. However, when we...

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We are developing a mobile application but since Web API is much easier to use and has many examples, we plan to proceed via Web API. Everything is going great, granting permission to the applicatio...

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API and Streamdeck

PlanPremiumDevicePCOperating System(Windows 11)My Question or IssueThe plugin developer for Streamdeck that uses Spotify API can´t make better changes if the API itself does not upgrade also. I´m not sure what it is, but on streamdeck, when i change ...

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Plan Premium Device PC Operating System (Windows 11) My Question or Issue The plugin developer for Streamdeck that uses Spotify API can´t make better changes if the API itself does not upgrade...

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Music discord Bot

If I create a private discord music bot, only in a server, but tuebmembers cane use It, the Spotify use is private or pubblic?

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If I create a private discord music bot, only in a server, but tuebmembers cane use It, the Spotify use is private or pubblic?

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User configuration of spotify's smart shuffle algorithm

I am hoping that the Spotify Product Owner for the smart shuffle feature, or anyone in spotify for that matter keeps an eye on this forum. I have a requedt for the spotify team to enable users to enter parameters into a configurator which influences ...

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I am hoping that the Spotify Product Owner for the smart shuffle feature, or anyone in spotify for that matter keeps an eye on this forum.   I have a requedt for the spotify team to enable use...

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Can I build a player on node.js that plays to local speakers?

PlanFree/PremiumCountryUSADeviceGeneric linux device with browser interfaceOperating SystemAny, but say Ubuntu for discussion My Question or Issue I have a linux-based device that has a touchscreen on it, and I want to build a Spotify player for it.T...

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Plan Free/Premium Country USA Device Generic linux device with browser interface Operating System Any, but say Ubuntu for discussion   My Question or Issue   I have a linux-based...

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ADS API - Suggestion for Next version

As a recommendation for the next API version - please avoid using GET as a method for submitting the report and instead please revert back to a POST request. First, for the GET request the parameters for arrays do not follow HTTP standards in the cur...

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As a recommendation for the next API version - please avoid using GET as a method for submitting the report and instead please revert back to a POST request. First, for the GET request the parameters...

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App blocked & downgraded, how to understand why?

Hi, I was working on an app using the spotify web api. I accidentally send way too many requests and received a bunch of 429 responses. I realize I sent way too many and I've fixed the issue, but my application is blocked without any way of appealing...

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Hi,   I was working on an app using the spotify web api. I accidentally send way too many requests and received a bunch of 429 responses. I realize I sent way too many and I've fixed the issue...

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spotify sdk on html local server website not being called

PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceWindows laptopOperating SystemWindows My Question or IssueI am really struggling to get the example of the playback to load on my little html website when running a flask application on my local server. When I go to inspect ...

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Plan Premium Country UK Device Windows laptop Operating System Windows   My Question or Issue I am really struggling to get the example of the playback to load on my little html websit...

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