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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...
Hi everyone,I've encoutered a strange issue where the data I retreive from the https://api.spotify.com/v1/browse/new-releases API endpoint is stuck in april. I've made sure that the offset is set to zero. All of this is through direct requests (curl)...
Hi everyone, I've encoutered a strange issue where the data I retreive from the https://api.spotify.com/v1/browse/new-releases API endpoint is stuck in april. I've made sure that the offset...
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PlanPremiumCountrySpain (ES)DeviceDesktop computerOperating SystemLinux mint 20.2 My Question or IssueI was trying to add some tracks to one of my playlists, and I keep getting the following error response:{"error": {"status": 500, "message": "com.sc...
Plan Premium Country Spain (ES) Device Desktop computer Operating System Linux mint 20.2 My Question or Issue I was trying to add some tracks to one of my playlists, and I keep getti...
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My Question or IssueHi everyone. I have a small project which will retrieve the albums for an artist, and then get the tracks for these albums. My application only cares about the latest new tracks and albums. But, the API doesn't provide me any opti...
My Question or Issue Hi everyone. I have a small project which will retrieve the albums for an artist, and then get the tracks for these albums. My application only cares about the la...
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PlanWe are developing a fitness app on the Apple Vision Pro. We would like to use Spotify music as background music (currently we use Apple Music as background music) and would like to ask if it is allowed. Our content is paid for on a monthly subscr...
Plan We are developing a fitness app on the Apple Vision Pro. We would like to use Spotify music as background music (currently we use Apple Music as background music) and would like to ask if it is...
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The "Get Several Artists" endpoint has an incorrect value for the maximum number of IDs you can submit in a request. https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-multiple-artists Currently, the docs say "Maximum: 100 IDs." Howeve...
The "Get Several Artists" endpoint has an incorrect value for the maximum number of IDs you can submit in a request. https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-multipl...
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Hi!I'm developing an app, which requires to fetch data about artists: streams and monthly listeners. I can get it using web API, but for every artist i need an ID. How can i get a list of all artists IDs? Or at least top 500 000 mostly listened artis...
Hi! I'm developing an app, which requires to fetch data about artists: streams and monthly listeners. I can get it using web API, but for every artist i need an ID. How can i get a list of all artis...
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PlanFreeCountryMultiple: Poland (testing from), US (backend infrastructure location) DeviceWEB/CurlOperating SystemOSX/Linux My Question or IssueAPI to check if current user is following artist returns inconsistent results. If I'm running it from my ...
Plan Free Country Multiple: Poland (testing from), US (backend infrastructure location) Device WEB/Curl Operating System OSX/Linux My Question or Issue API to check if curren...
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Hello spotify team.On 23 February I requested an API extension.It's been more than 6 weeks and I still haven't heard back, no one has reviewed it.I understand you have a lot of work to do, but it's been three months since the application was finished...
Hello spotify team. On 23 February I requested an API extension. It's been more than 6 weeks and I still haven't heard back, no one has reviewed it. I understand you have a lot of work to do, but ...
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PlanPremiumCountryItalyDeviceiPhone 13 ProOperating SystemiOS 15 My Question or Issue Hi everyone,I would like to know how it is possible to start random playback of favorite tracks on Spotify, filtering them by period. For example, I would like to p...
Plan Premium Country Italy Device iPhone 13 Pro Operating System iOS 15 My Question or Issue Hi everyone, I would like to know how it is possible to start random playback...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryUSA DeviceiPhone XROperating SystemiOS 17.4.1 My Question or IssueI'm trying to authenticate using non-PKCE between Spotify iOS SDK and Web API. Every time I try to exchange the auth code for tokens, I get a 400 error and the b...
Plan Free/Premium Country USA Device iPhone XR Operating System iOS 17.4.1 My Question or Issue I'm trying to authenticate using non-PKCE between Spotify iOS SDK and Web API....
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I had submitted the hardware partner application form without System Integrator for Spotify eSDK access. I am yet to get any response regarding the application. Please let know how long it takes to process the hardware partner application form.
I had submitted the hardware partner application form without System Integrator for Spotify eSDK access. I am yet to get any response regarding the application. Please let know how long it takes to p...
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I know it states review can take up to 6 weeks or longer but I applied for mine back in February and it's been over 12 weeks with it being in the unreviewed/undecided stage. Just wondering if anyone applied at the same time I did or after it and got ...
I know it states review can take up to 6 weeks or longer but I applied for mine back in February and it's been over 12 weeks with it being in the unreviewed/undecided stage. Just wondering i...
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When requesting a playlist via GET playlist the value of "next" in the paginated tracks includes the same fields. This link, however, is for the get playlist items endpoint and as such the format for the fields may change. For instance my fields quer...
When requesting a playlist via GET playlist the value of "next" in the paginated tracks includes the same fields. This link, however, is for the get playlist items endpoint and as such the ...
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The Get Playlist Items endpoint specifies that, for each artists array for each track item, an array of artist images are returned. For example: { "items": [{ "track": { "artists": [{ "images": [{ "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e02ff9ca...
The Get Playlist Items endpoint specifies that, for each artists array for each track item, an array of artist images are returned. For example: { "items": [{ "track": { "artists": [{ ...
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@Headers("Authorization: Bearer ${Constants.AUTHORIZATION_HEADER}")@PUT("v1/me/player/play")fun play( @Header("Content-Type") contentType: String, @Body body: PlayRequestBody) : CallViewModelfun playMusic(contextUri: String) { val requestBody = PlayR...
@Headers("Authorization: Bearer ${Constants.AUTHORIZATION_HEADER}") @PUT("v1/me/player/play") fun play( @Header("Content-Type") contentType: String, @Body body: PlayRequestBody ) : Call&...
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PlanPremiumCountryFrance Operating SystemLinux debian 11.My Question or IssueI think my IP is blocked when I request a data from my server. I've got 403 err. How I can ask to Spotify directly to unban my IP?
Plan Premium Country France Operating System Linux debian 11. My Question or Issue I think my IP is blocked when I request a data from my server. I've got 403 err. How I can ask to Spo...
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PlanPremiumCountryNLDeviceDesktopOperating SystemDoes not matter My Question or IssueAPI call Get Several Tracks describes in the documentation:https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-several-tracks Argument ids string Maxim...
Plan Premium Country NL Device Desktop Operating System Does not matter My Question or Issue API call Get Several Tracks describes in the documentation: https://developer.spotify.co...
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DeviceMackbook Pro My Question or IssueI've written a script which copies all the Spotify URLs from a Twitter thread so you can paste them into a playlist and listen to them all. The problem is that only tracks get added. In the attached example.txt ...
Device Mackbook Pro My Question or Issue I've written a script which copies all the Spotify URLs from a Twitter thread so you can paste them into a playlist and listen to them all. The pro...
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On today's episode of Spotify API breaking for no reason, the Web API used to accept album_type param when getting artists albums, even though the docs say the name of the param is include_groups. Today they have updated the API to align with the doc...
On today's episode of Spotify API breaking for no reason, the Web API used to accept album_type param when getting artists albums, even though the docs say the name of the param is include_group...
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I'm building an app to help analyze your Spotify data and at first I wanted to rank possibly thousands of artists on all sorts of metrics. However, the API calls to get all the data for each artist even using the many "get several" endpoints would st...
I'm building an app to help analyze your Spotify data and at first I wanted to rank possibly thousands of artists on all sorts of metrics. However, the API calls to get all the data for each artist e...
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