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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...
PlanPremiumCountryArgentinaDevice(Macbook Pro late 2020)Operating System(macOS 15.4.1 (Sequoia)) My Question or Issue Hi everyone, I’m working on a web-based project where I embed public Spotify playlists using the official embed URL format:https://o...
Plan Premium Country Argentina Device (Macbook Pro late 2020) Operating System (macOS 15.4.1 (Sequoia)) My Question or Issue Hi everyone, I’m working on a web-ba...
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Hi guys,Now that Spotify has started adding music videos to songs I'm wondering if it will be made public to add this to the JSON object for the track. Maybe like a boolean or even an object to show if the track has a video an the data on it?Thanks,E...
Hi guys, Now that Spotify has started adding music videos to songs I'm wondering if it will be made public to add this to the JSON object for the track. Maybe like a boolean or even an object to s...
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I was looking at Spotify's authorization implementation for the API and I'm not sure it's following the OAuth/OIDC spec which makes it hard to work with.Take a look at the OIDC config:https://accounts.spotify.com/.well-known/openid-configuration{"iss...
I was looking at Spotify's authorization implementation for the API and I'm not sure it's following the OAuth/OIDC spec which makes it hard to work with. Take a look at the OIDC config: https://a...
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Helluuur! I'm working on a personal project that involves analyzing the energy of Spotify tracks and adapting playback accordingly.In many cases, the tracks lack a preview_url, which makes traditional audio analysis impossible. To work around this, I...
Helluuur! I'm working on a personal project that involves analyzing the energy of Spotify tracks and adapting playback accordingly. In many cases, the tracks lack a preview_url, which makes...
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Working on developing an application, and I have to use this endpoint: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-queue I need to obtain the full user queue, but what this endpoint returns is only the first 20 song...
Working on developing an application, and I have to use this endpoint: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-queue I need to obtain the full...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueHere are a few questions we’d like to clarify:Integration via Web Playback SDK:Is it possible...
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 Here ar...
Spotify Star
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When embeding episodes on the website (wordpress based) using the embed code with the start at 0:00 tick box selected episodes are still starting in middle. How can I ensure that the episodes as starting at 0:00? Here's the code for embed which spoti...
When embeding episodes on the website (wordpress based) using the embed code with the start at 0:00 tick box selected episodes are still starting in middle. How can I ensure that the e...
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Country USA DeviceOn any device or OS My Question or IssueHi - my question is after copying and embedding the player code onto my website, all works fine (album pic shows, tracks all show and play, etc). However, the background color at the top is br...
Country USA Device On any device or OS My Question or Issue Hi - my question is after copying and embedding the player code onto my website, all works fine (album pic shows, track...
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Hi Spotify team, We’re a small app development company with hundreds of active users, and we’ve integrated Spotify features to create a more personalized and engaging experience for them. One key part of that is the ability to fetch a user’s top arti...
Hi Spotify team, We’re a small app development company with hundreds of active users, and we’ve integrated Spotify features to create a more personalized and engaging experience for them. On...
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PlanPremiumCountry DeviceWeb APIOperating SystemWeb API My Question or IssueCould you show an example of query for a track in a range of years? From the examples and the query form https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/search ...
Plan Premium Country Device Web API Operating System Web API My Question or Issue Could you show an example of query for a track in a range of years? From the examples and the...
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My Question or IssueIs there any way to retrieve prereleases via the API? They seem to be similar to albums but with a different resource, and the track IDs are not retrievable.
My Question or Issue Is there any way to retrieve prereleases via the API? They seem to be similar to albums but with a different resource, and the track IDs are not retrievable.
Spotify Star
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I got 502 status code for /me/top/tracks when paging. I narrowed it down to a specific offset (1304) that is causing the error. i.e. This failedhttps://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/tracks?limit=1&offset=1304 But these succeededhttps://api.spotify.com/v1...
I got 502 status code for /me/top/tracks when paging. I narrowed it down to a specific offset (1304) that is causing the error. i.e. This failed https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/tracks?lim...
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PlanFree(for testing) premium(for personal use)CountryVenezuelaDeviceIphone 15Operating SystemWindows 11, IOS 17 My Question or IssueHi Spotify Developer Team, I’m developing an app that uses the Spotify Web API, specifically the /v1/audio-features e...
Plan Free(for testing) premium(for personal use) Country Venezuela Device Iphone 15 Operating System Windows 11, IOS 17 My Question or Issue Hi Spotify Developer Team, I’m de...
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Initially, I tried to make paginated requests for this endpoint from my application. But I found that even with enough total, I get an empty list of items. as far as I understand, if the offset is less than the total, then everything should work. As ...
Initially, I tried to make paginated requests for this endpoint from my application. But I found that even with enough total, I get an empty list of items. as far as I understand, if the offset is le...
Newbie
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DeviceSamsung s10eOperating SystemWindows My Question or IssueI find that the information associated with Audiobook Listening Time is not readily available to the userbase. I have been trying to identify how much time I have used, what I have remaini...
Device Samsung s10e Operating System Windows My Question or Issue I find that the information associated with Audiobook Listening Time is not readily available to the userbase. ...
Spotify Star
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PlanFree Operating SystemAndroid My QuestionHello everyone,I’ve developed an Android app that tracks Spotify song metadata and vital parameters via a smartwatch. I’m preparing to publish it on the Play Store, but I won’t be able to meet the requireme...
Plan Free Operating System Android My Question Hello everyone, I’ve developed an Android app that tracks Spotify song metadata and vital parameters via a smartwatch. I’m prepari...
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I'm seeing a few inconsistencies that I was hoping SPOTIFY could help with: #1 - Up until yesterday, when retrieving albums via the /artists/{id}/albums request, the albums being returned included external_ids, copyrights, [record] label, and popular...
I'm seeing a few inconsistencies that I was hoping SPOTIFY could help with: #1 - Up until yesterday, when retrieving albums via the /artists/{id}/albums request, the albums being returned in...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryUnited States of America Device(Samsung Galaxy A14, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System (Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question is to be able to post your own music, for the people that make there own m...
Plan Free/Premium Country United States of America Device (Samsung Galaxy A14, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)  ...
Roadie
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Hello Spotify Developer Support,I’m reaching out regarding podcast integration with Spotify.I operate a platform where multiple users create and publish their own podcasts. I’m looking to implement a feature that allows users to connect their Spotify...
Hello Spotify Developer Support, I’m reaching out regarding podcast integration with Spotify. I operate a platform where multiple users create and publish their own podcasts. I’m looking to impleme...
Spotify Star
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PlanPremiumCountryIndiaDeviceAsus TUF F15Operating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueHello,I am consistently receiving a 403 Forbidden error when trying to access any data endpoint (like /v1/audio-features), even though my initial authentication r...
Plan Premium Country India Device Asus TUF F15 Operating System Windows 11 My Question or Issue Hello, I am consistently receiving a 403 Forbidden error when trying to acces...
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