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/playlists API Endpoint Issue Fixed

We wanted to provide an update regarding issues identified in the “/playlists” API endpoints. We have investigated the reported concerns of null results appearing in responses and have fixed the behaviour in the “/me/playlists” and “/users/{user_id}/...

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  • AdrienCompDev
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500 (Internal Server Error) when I try to refresh token: Authorization code with PKCE extension

PlanFreeCountryColombia DeviceHP LAPTOP-O1445JB9Operating System(Windows 11) My Question or Issue:when the first token expires, I try to use the refresh token to generate a new one without needing to authorize the user again. But I get an error 500 (...

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  • Plan Free Country Colombia   Device HP LAPTOP-O1445JB9 Operating System (Windows 11)   My Question or Issue: when the first token expires, I try to use the refresh token to ...
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Superuser Contribution [Developer] Expose endpoints to create or query folders

There are a couple of questions floating around folder info not being available via the API. As of today there are no endpoints associated to get folder information (link to docs). It'd be nice to have this feature exposed via the api to allow more c...

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  • There are a couple of questions floating around folder info not being available via the API. As of today there are no endpoints associated to get folder information (link to docs). It'd be nice to ha...
  • hispeedsurfer
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Retrieve songs by artist based on the lowest popularity score / streams

Hi, So I'm trying to build a web app where a user can search for an artist and then it gives the user a song that isn't popular or with the least streams. Something like forgotify.com but for a specific artist. After a lot of research, I still haven'...

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  •   Hi,   So I'm trying to build a web app where a user can search for an artist and then it gives the user a song that isn't popular or with the least streams. Something like forgotify.co...
  • Th3Liron
  • Music Fan
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    popularity
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    SpotifyAPI
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Solved!! Get no refreshtoken after refreshing an old token

PlanFree/PremiumCountryGermanyOperating SystemWindows 10,etc. My Question or IssueHey guys, anyone knows, why I dont get a new refresh token if I refresh a token?The example answer in the docs is:{access_token: 'BQBLuPRYBQ...BP8stIv5xr-Iwaf4l8eg',tok...

  • Music Fan
  • Plan Free/Premium Country Germany Operating System Windows 10,etc.   My Question or Issue Hey guys, anyone knows, why I dont get a new refresh token if I refresh a token? The example an...
  • Th3Liron
  • Music Fan
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  • Question
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I tried to create a simple app but get an error.

I tried to create a simple app based on your basic example code "I get this error This functionality is restricted to premium users only" even though I have a premium subscription. PlanPremium FamilyCountryUKDevice(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook...

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  • I tried to create a simple app based on your basic example code  "I get this error This functionality is restricted to premium users only" even though I have a premium subscription.  Plan ...
  • kevquinny
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Solved!! API calls dont work [JS | axios]

PlanFreeCountryGermanyDevice--Operating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueIm trying to get the current Songs, but it always responses with eroro 404 not found.I alr tried with using the API /current-playing but it responses the same error.const ax...

  • Music Fan
  • Plan Free Country Germany Device -- Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue Im trying to get the current Songs, but it always responses with eroro 404 not found. I alr trie...
  • Th3Liron
  • Music Fan
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Solved!! Why is "In the car" category in Get Several Browse Categories response but no playlists for it?

https://api.spotify.com/v1/browse/categories endpoint will return "In the car" category with id "0JQ5DAqbMKFIRybaNTYXXy" but when you fetch categories playlistshttps://api.spotify.com/v1/browse/categories/0JQ5DAqbMKFIRybaNTYXXy/playlistsresponse is 4...

  • Casual Listener
  • https://api.spotify.com/v1/browse/categories endpoint will return "In the car" category with id "0JQ5DAqbMKFIRybaNTYXXy" but when you fetch categories playlists https://api.spotify.com/v1/brows...
  • mistak3nlv
  • Casual Listener
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Potential Business Partnership

Dear Spotify Official Staff, We, as developers, want to develop a social Karaoke app similar to Smule or Starmaker. After searching the "Spotify for Developers" Website (Home | Spotify for Developers), we found Spotify is open to some business corpor...

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  • Casual Listener
  • Dear Spotify Official Staff,               We, as developers, want to develop a social Karaoke app similar to Smule or Starmaker. After searching the "Spotif...
  • musapaggo
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Does my name violate the developer policy?

I've recently started working on a project and noticed this part in the developer policy: You must also follow the Branding Guidelines when naming your SDA. For example, the name should not begin with “Spot” or be confusing in sound or spelling to Sp...

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  • I've recently started working on a project and noticed this part in the developer policy:   You must also follow the Branding Guidelines when naming your SDA. For example, the name s...
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How to get confirmation for use Web Playback SDK from Spotify team?

From Web Playback SDK doc: This SDK must not be used in commercial projects without Spotify's prior written approval. How can I contact Spotify and get this confirmation? We would like to implement native Spotify integration with our browser extensio...

  • Newbie
  • From Web Playback SDK doc: This SDK must not be used in commercial projects without Spotify's prior written approval.   How can I contact Spotify and get this confirmation?   ...
  • Ximzend
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AUTHENTICATION_SERVICE_UNKNOWN_ERROR when login

Hi all! I have been developing an Android app with the Spotify SDK for a few weeks. Everything was working fine (used the log-in and the web api afterwards). Then i decided to implement the PKCE flow. I got it working but when i had to send the code ...

  • Newbie
  • Hi all! I have been developing an Android app with the Spotify SDK for a few weeks. Everything was working fine (used the log-in and the web api afterwards). Then i decided to implement the PKCE flow...
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    Android SDK
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Problems with Getting Started guide

Hey all! Noob here... I have 3 questions:1. Is the 'Getting Started with Android SDK' supposed to work on Android 14? I can't seem to get it to work on my system. 2. Would it still work even if instead of an AppCompatActivity you used a ComponentActi...

  • Newbie
  • Hey all!  Noob here... I have 3 questions: 1. Is the 'Getting Started with Android SDK' supposed to work on Android 14? I can't seem to get it to work on my system.  2. Would it still wo...
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    Compose
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Compliance Question

Hosting personal events such as a wedding or a party, would this fall under commercial use? i.e NOT the wedding venue, but their client throwing a wedding and using the app I'm creating.

  • Newbie
  • Hosting personal events such as a wedding or a party, would this fall under commercial use? i.e NOT the  wedding venue, but their client throwing a wedding and using the app I'm creating.
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Seeking to 0 doesn't work in the iFrame API

PlanPremiumCountrySweden DeviceDesktop/Browser Operating SystemLinux Mint 21.2 My Question or IssueI was playing around with the iFrame API and wanted to go back to the beginning of a song.Neither grabbing the progress bar and putting it to 0, or `Em...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country Sweden   Device Desktop/Browser   Operating System Linux Mint 21.2   My Question or Issue I was playing around with the iFrame API and wanted to go bac...
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Is there any way to sort artist's genres by popularity

I've been developing an app that involves artist's genres. When I take make the request to get the genres from a specific artist, i got in return an alphabetically sorted array of the genres. My main problem is that, in most of the cases, there's one...

  • Casual Listener
  • I've been developing an app that involves artist's genres. When I take make the request to get the genres from a specific artist, i got in return an alphabetically sorted array of the genres. My main...
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Autoplay ios

PlanFree/PremiumCountryUKOperating SystemiOS My Question or IssueI am developing a new iOS app, similar to TikTok and seeking to use the spotify API to allow users to connect their spotify account to their account and have an anthem autoplaying over ...

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  •   Plan Free/Premium Country UK Operating System iOS   My Question or Issue I am developing a new iOS app, similar to TikTok and seeking to use the spotify API to allow users to con...
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Different Artists mixed into one

Hey guys/ team , not sure if this is already raised but for quite some time now , to be honest probably since i have Spotify acc. noticing that Artists with same names are getting combined into one “Artist Profile” (example: search for artist Heaven ...

  • Visitor
  • Hey guys/ team , not sure if this is already raised but for quite some time now , to be honest probably since i have Spotify acc. noticing that Artists with same names are getting combined into one “...
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Solved!! Web Playback SDK incompatibility with React 18

The Web Playback SDK appears incompatible with React 18 as discussed here: link. Can this be documented for developer awareness? It's not fun to spend hours getting a player set up to realize you can't use it. Additionally, is there any roadmap for R...

  • Casual Listener
  • The Web Playback SDK appears incompatible with React 18 as discussed here: link. Can this be documented for developer awareness? It's not fun to spend hours getting a player set up to realize you can...
  • obringer20
  • Casual Listener
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Embedded web player keeps having upstream request timeout

So have the embedded player on our newly released podcasts beacon.ai and it fails to load about half the time, ending up with just a blank box with the error "upstream request timeout". Have also had reports of a couple folks not being able to play o...

  • Casual Listener
  • So have the embedded player on our newly released podcasts beacon.ai and it fails to load about half the time, ending up with just a blank box with the error "upstream request timeout". Have also had...
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  • Possible Bug
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