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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...
The playlist creation endpoint (docs) is frequently returning HTTP error code 502 and a response body that looks like: {"error": {"status": 502, "message": "Error while loading resource" } } This has completely broken the app that I develop, and is t...
The playlist creation endpoint (docs) is frequently returning HTTP error code 502 and a response body that looks like: {"error": {"status": 502, "message": "Error while loading resource" } }...
Music Fan
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I'm looking to get a list of all collaborators invited to a playlist through the API. So far, the only way I've found to do this is to iterate through every track in the playlist and check who added to it. This is incredibly resource intensive and do...
I'm looking to get a list of all collaborators invited to a playlist through the API. So far, the only way I've found to do this is to iterate through every track in the playlist and check who added ...
Newbie
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i have been working on this app using the WEB-API and prior to a week ago both tracks and artist fetch requests worked just fine but now the artist fetch request returns an empty array but the tracks works perfectly fine.
i have been working on this app using the WEB-API and prior to a week ago both tracks and artist fetch requests worked just fine but now the artist fetch request returns an empty array but the tracks...
Casual Listener
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The band Sevendust's album "Alpha" is having audio issues. Some of the songs are playing the incorrect audio. The song "Driven" for example is playing the song "Alpha" audio. Please fix its driving me insane
The band Sevendust's album "Alpha" is having audio issues. Some of the songs are playing the incorrect audio. The song "Driven" for example is playing the song "Alpha" audio. Please fix its driving m...
Spotify Star
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Recently I have been testing and using my code and randomly the sp.artist(uri) function stopped working. My code when it gets to that line runs indefinitely but my sp.playlist_items() is working just fine. This problem started randomly without changi...
Recently I have been testing and using my code and randomly the sp.artist(uri) function stopped working. My code when it gets to that line runs indefinitely but my sp.playlist_items() is working just...
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Linked tracks are no longer including a linked_from attribue in the web API. The example in the track relinking article says that:6kLCHFM39wkFjOuyPGLGeQ should link to:6ozxplTAjWO0BlUxN8ia0A But the linked_from is no longer included in the response. ...
Linked tracks are no longer including a linked_from attribue in the web API. The example in the track relinking article says that: 6kLCHFM39wkFjOuyPGLGeQ should link to: 6ozxplTAj...
Newbie
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PlanPremiumCountrySlovakiaOperating System(Windows 10) My Question or IssueIt is saying "We were not able to load your account information. Please refresh the page and try again."
Plan Premium Country Slovakia Operating System (Windows 10) My Question or Issue It is saying "We were not able to load your account information. Please refresh the page and tr...
Casual Listener
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I'm trying to create a new app at: https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/createAfter clicking the "Create App" button, a form flashed and automatically shows a red error message containing: "We were not able to load your account information. Please...
I'm trying to create a new app at: https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/create After clicking the "Create App" button, a form flashed and automatically shows a red error message containing...
Casual Listener
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CreatePlaylist starting returning a 200 instead of 201 for successful results! This broke my application since I was looking for a 201.
CreatePlaylist starting returning a 200 instead of 201 for successful results! This broke my application since I was looking for a 201.
Casual Listener
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Hello, I would like to recreate the same experience of podcasts accessible only to subscribers of my website that can be seen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/6GSnbFz5qzNuKnLmGzQbPc (Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content). On Spotify a...
Hello, I would like to recreate the same experience of podcasts accessible only to subscribers of my website that can be seen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/6GSnbFz5qzNuKnLmGzQbPc (Making Sense ...
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Hi! I didn't see a place where people are sharing the cool stuff they're able to do with the API? Thought it could be fun to have a place for this?
Hi! I didn't see a place where people are sharing the cool stuff they're able to do with the API? Thought it could be fun to have a place for this?
Regular
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My Python script that uses Spotipy stopped working yesterday after working fine for months.The full error message is... HTTP Error for POST to https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists//tracks with Params: {'position': 0} returned 403 due to Insufficient ...
My Python script that uses Spotipy stopped working yesterday after working fine for months. The full error message is... HTTP Error for POST to https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/<PL...
Regular
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Using the Web API, I'm finding that when you ask for user's top items and specifying tracks, each track has an album_type of either "EP" or "SINGLE" or "ALBUM". This goes against what is documented — and found with other endpoints — of "album", "sing...
Using the Web API, I'm finding that when you ask for user's top items and specifying tracks, each track has an album_type of either "EP" or "SINGLE" or "ALBUM". This goes against what is docum...
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Got an issue embedding this? Embed renders but play button does nothing and spins? Other podcasts embedded same way work? Any ideas?
Got an issue embedding this? Embed renders but play button does nothing and spins? Other podcasts embedded same way work? <iframe style="border-radius:12px" src="https://open.spo...
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Hello everyone ! My use case :Via the Spotify Web API, I want to create a public playlist and add tracks to it.My implementation :I setup a spotify auth flow that requires the playlist-modify-public scope.Then when I get the auth token I create the p...
Hello everyone ! My use case : Via the Spotify Web API, I want to create a public playlist and add tracks to it. My implementation : I setup a spotify auth flow that requires ...
Roadie
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Did the API change the functionality of adding tracks to a playlist? I have my code load in TrackIds and use them to add tracks to a playlist but just today I got an error saying that I did not provide any URIs. Did something change in the backend th...
Did the API change the functionality of adding tracks to a playlist? I have my code load in TrackIds and use them to add tracks to a playlist but just today I got an error saying that I did not provi...
Visitor
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Suddenly, the api.spotify.com/v1/tracks/{id} endpoint has started giving me track duration_ms as a float e.g."duration_ms": 2345.0,The endpoint always used to return an int, which matches the documentation. Weirdly the response from the "try it" resp...
Suddenly, the api.spotify.com/v1/tracks/{id} endpoint has started giving me track duration_ms as a float e.g. "duration_ms": 2345.0, The endpoint always used to return an int, which matches the doc...
Regular
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Our app has Spotify playlist fetching integration for quite some time (since 2020) working without any problems, however starting from about two to three weeks ago, we have been getting 403 errors. We had previously used a different email address but...
Our app has Spotify playlist fetching integration for quite some time (since 2020) working without any problems, however starting from about two to three weeks ago, we have been getting 403 errors. W...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountry DeviceMacBookOperating System(iOS) My Question or IssueLooking for feedback on our app that creates Spotify playlists out of your iMessage chats. Available free to download on the Mac App Store, named AutoSpoto: https://apple....
Plan Free/Premium Country Device MacBook Operating System (iOS) My Question or Issue Looking for feedback on our app that creates Spotify playlists out of your iMessag...
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PlanPremiumCountryUnited KingdomDevice(iPhone 11)Operating SystemMy Question or Issuejust got premium duo and no shuffle button and have tried un downloading and reinstalling
Plan Premium Country United Kingdom Device (iPhone 11) Operating System My Question or Issue just got premium duo and no shuffle button and have tried un downloading and reinstalling ...
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