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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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Need Spotify to be running while playing from a client?

Understand there is 'Spotify Connect' and allows to switch between playback devices. I'm building a Java client using Spotify Web API and noticed that when I tried to play any tracks, it needs Spotify desktop client to be running and the song plays t...

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Understand there is 'Spotify Connect' and allows to switch between playback devices. I'm building a Java client using Spotify Web API and noticed that when I tried to play any tracks, it needs Spotif...

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INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid redirect URI

const REDIRECT_URI = 'http://localhost:3000/callback'; const SCOPES = 'user-library-read user-read-playback-position'; // Redirect to Spotify authorization page app.get('/login', (req, res) => { const queryParams = querystring.stringify({ response_ty...

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          const REDIRECT_URI = 'http://localhost:3000/callback'; const SCOPES = 'user-library-read user-read-playback-position'; // Redirect to Spotify authorization pa...

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API Suggestion: Get Artist Card/Artist Most Popular Cities

My Question or IssueRecently spotify shipped a new feature at the bottom of each artist page, which includes a number of photos, a description of the artist, artist social media tags, and the 5 cities that have the most listeners of that artist. I th...

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My Question or Issue Recently spotify shipped a new feature at the bottom of each artist page, which includes a number of photos, a description of the artist, artist social media tags, and the 5 cit...

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Web API - Searching by Artist Genre and release date showing limited results

PlanPremium CountryUS My Question or IssueI have recently created a Spotify Web API that searches tracks based on artist genre and also track release date. However I have a feeling that it’s not collating all tracks within the date range.For example,...

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Plan Premium   Country US   My Question or Issue I have recently created a Spotify Web API that searches tracks based on artist genre and also track release date. However I have a fe...

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Websites/Apps using stats from API are inaccurate

PlanStudentCountryUSDeviceiPhone 12Operating SystemiOS My Question or IssueThis is something I’ve been noticing within the past couple of days from the user end, along with all of the dozen other spotify and third-party website users that I’ve asked....

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Plan Student Country US Device iPhone 12 Operating System iOS   My Question or Issue This is something I’ve been noticing within the past couple of days from the user end, along with a...

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429 error on share embeds on my website when using public ip

They were loading fine when just testing locally, but upon trying to visit my site with my public ip/domain name all the share embeds just fail to load with 429. This happens when using my public ip both on and off my home network. ty much if anyone ...

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They were loading fine when just testing locally, but upon trying to visit my site with my public ip/domain name all the share embeds just fail to load with 429. This happens when using my public ip ...

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Get Artist's Albums API not returning all results for certain pages

The end point Get Artist's Albums https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/{id}/albums when ID is 0blbVefuxOGltDBa00dspv and include_groups is album,single,compilation, returns a total of 85 albums. On the first page, it properly lists the default limit of...

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The end point Get Artist's Albums https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/{id}/albums when ID is 0blbVefuxOGltDBa00dspv and include_groups is album,single,compilation, returns a total of 85 albums. On the...

ackmanx

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Getting 500 on v1/me/episodes

PlanFreeCountryIndiaOperating System(Linux) My Question or IssueGetting 500 on v1/me/episodes even specifying these two scopes "scope": "user-library-read user-read-playback-position"

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Plan Free Country India Operating System (Linux)   My Question or Issue Getting 500 on v1/me/episodes even specifying these two scopes "scope": "user-library-read user-read-playback...

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Can I save user account data into database once they have logged in and accepted permissions?

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Can I save user account data into database once they have logged in and accepted permissions?

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Configurar duo não funciona / SETTING UP DUO DOESN'T WORK

PlanPremium/duoCountry Devicepc windows 11 edgeOperating SystemWindows 11The indication of users via link in the configuration of the premium duo plan is returning a json

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Plan Premium/duo Country   Device pc windows 11 edge Operating System Windows 11 The indication of users via link in the configuration of the premium duo plan is returning a json  

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Top Artists/Tracks long_term data has changed!!!

Hello I know other people have posted about this but I'm re-posting because this is a big change and I haven't found any communication from Spotify. If you haven't seen/noticed, the long_term data returned for tracks/artists suddenly changed in the p...

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Hello I know other people have posted about this but I'm re-posting because this is a big change and I haven't found any communication from Spotify.    If you haven't seen/noticed, the lo...

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Follow Show via Web API

Hello, I have been playing around with the `/me/following` endpoint that can be used to follow users or artists: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/follow-artists-users However, it seems it doesn't currently support followi...

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Hello, I have been playing around with the `/me/following` endpoint that can be used to follow users or artists: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/follow-artists-user...

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Api has been Disabled and blocked

PlanPremiumMy Question or IssueI have been using the API for some time, but It has been disabled and blocked without any mail or warning informing me what I did that caused this issue. Is there someone I can contact to get it unblocked after I've fix...

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Plan Premium My Question or Issue I have been using the API for some time, but It has been disabled and blocked without any mail or warning informing me what I did that caused this issue. Is ...

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Embedding all episodes of a podcast on a wordpress website

Hi There, I want to embed a full podcast serie with all episodes on my wordpress site. however if i embed the link to my site i see only one episode (trailer or last episode). Is there a way to get all the episodes of a podcast in the player (like a ...

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Hi There,    I want to embed a full podcast serie with all episodes on my wordpress site. however if i embed the link to my site i see only one episode (trailer or last episode). Is there...

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What happened to top/tracks and top/artists?

Hello,since the 19th of March, these 2 apihttps://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/artistshttps://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/tracksreturn very different results for the time_range = long_term, almost like if the long_term instead of being years is some month...

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Hello, since the 19th of March, these 2 api https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/artists https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/tracks return very different results for the time_range = long_term, alm...

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Error 500 when accessing "Recently Played" endpoint with valid access token

PlanPremiumCountryArgentina Dear Spotify Developers,I hope this message finds you well.I am encountering an issue when attempting to access the "Recently Played" endpoint (`/v1/me/player/recently-played`) in the Spotify API. I am using a valid access...

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  Plan Premium Country Argentina   Dear Spotify Developers, I hope this message finds you well. I am encountering an issue when attempting to access the "Recently Played" endpoint (...

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Why not add a check users follow array of playlists

I have an issueSpotify should add an endpoint that receives an list of playlist_ids and return if user follow it or not.Same already exists one for Tracks and For users and artists

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I have an issue Spotify should add an endpoint that receives an list of playlist_ids and return if user follow it or not. Same already exists one for Tracks and For users and artists 

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User Authorization failing in production

User Authorization failing in production on our app Mixonset and a few othersGetting this error from authenticating through the Spotify app{ error = "unknown_error"; "error_description" = "An unknown error has occured"; "spotify_version" = "8.9.19.57...

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User Authorization failing in production on our app Mixonset and a few others Getting this error from authenticating through the Spotify app {     error = "unknown_error";    ...

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[Closed] Scope Requirement Changed for Creating Private Playlists

My web app uses the Create Playlist endpoint to create a new private playlist:https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/create-playlistIn the past, this has only required the playlist-modify-private scope, but some time ago (in th...

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My web app uses the Create Playlist endpoint to create a new private playlist: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/create-playlist In the past, this has only required th...

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[Web API] Get Several Tracks maximum ids

Documentation for get several tracks endpoint says that maximum ids in the query can be up to 100. However in practise, I find the limit is 50.Either mis-documented or the API is not behaving as expected

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Documentation for get several tracks endpoint says that maximum ids in the query can be up to 100.   However in practise, I find the limit is 50. Either mis-documented or the API is not beh...

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