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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
Hey everyone, I've created this thread to provide more insight on an upcoming change to how refresh tokens work for apps on the Spotify Web API. We've shared a blog post that explains what's changing and why. The short version: refresh tokens will no...
Hey everyone, I’ve created this thread to provide an open space for discussion, feedback, concerns or ideas on an upcoming update to Spotify for Developers access. We’ve shared a blog post that explains what’s changing and why. Please use this thread...
Lately, my Spotify recommendations have been way off. I usually get a great mix of indie rock and alternative pop, but now it's throwing random genres at me like EDM and country. I haven't changed my listening habits, so I'm not sure what's causing t...
Lately, my Spotify recommendations have been way off. I usually get a great mix of indie rock and alternative pop, but now it's throwing random genres at me like EDM and country. I haven't changed my...
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I'm using a get request to get a random track from the entire Spotify library and display its name, the artist's name, cover art and play the previewURL. Why do so many of these random songs (most of them are pretty popular ones) do not have a previe...
I'm using a get request to get a random track from the entire Spotify library and display its name, the artist's name, cover art and play the previewURL. Why do so many of these random songs (most of...
Spotify Star
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I just built a practice website yesterday using the Spotify API and used the preview_url to play a song preview with a button to listen to full song on spotifynow today all my API calls return NULL ONLY for the preview_url What gives?? PlanFree/Premi...
I just built a practice website yesterday using the Spotify API and used the preview_url to play a song preview with a button to listen to full song on spotify now today all my API calls return NULL...
Spotify Star
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I am conducting a WCAG check of our site, which we are failing due to an issue with the GTM Spotify tag. The particular issue is around adding aria-hidden="true" attribute to the Spotify iframe. This way you tell screenreaders this is not a content e...
I am conducting a WCAG check of our site, which we are failing due to an issue with the GTM Spotify tag. The particular issue is around adding aria-hidden="true" attribute to the Spoti...
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Hello, I am an academic researcher and would like your help with my research query. In my research, I am using Spotify community data which are posts and comments in the spotify community. Can anyone tell me whom I can contact at spotify to get appro...
Hello, I am an academic researcher and would like your help with my research query. In my research, I am using Spotify community data which are posts and comments in the spotify community. Can anyo...
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Hi everyone,I’m encountering an issue with the Spotify API and would appreciate any insights or solutions.I have a cron job set up to search for new song releases precisely at midnight.However, I’ve noticed that while new releases become visible on S...
Hi everyone, I’m encountering an issue with the Spotify API and would appreciate any insights or solutions. I have a cron job set up to search for new song releases precisely at midnight. ...
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I have a list of 15,000+ track names and I am attempting to retrieve trackids for each one through the Spotify API. I keep running into the same issue of the API freezing when it reaches a certain amount - in this case right around 2500 requests. I'v...
I have a list of 15,000+ track names and I am attempting to retrieve trackids for each one through the Spotify API. I keep running into the same issue of the API freezing when it reaches a certain am...
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I've been trying to develop a web app using the spotify api, but the documentation uses curl for api curls and I'm having a bit of trouble trying to figure out how to get an access token using javascript's fetch api. Any help will be appreciated.
I've been trying to develop a web app using the spotify api, but the documentation uses curl for api curls and I'm having a bit of trouble trying to figure out how to get an access token using javasc...
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PlanPremiumCountryGermanyDeviceWeb APIOperating SystemLinuxMy Question or IssueHello Spotify team,Please forward this to the dev department I really like my Spotify Weeklies, so I built a python script for weekly backups using spotipy.I also pinned m...
Plan Premium Country Germany Device Web API Operating System Linux My Question or Issue Hello Spotify team, Please forward this to the dev department 🙂 I really like my Spotify Weekli...
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Hello, I'm working on a web app, I code in Python and using Spotipy. I want to build a large datasets for my saved tracks that retrieves different track features. For that I'm using the audio_features as well. When going through my code line, it retu...
Hello, I'm working on a web app, I code in Python and using Spotipy. I want to build a large datasets for my saved tracks that retrieves different track features. For that I'm using the audi...
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DeviceAndroid (1024p landscape) API 32 EmulatorOperating SystemAndroid Automotive 12L Sv2 My Question or Issue Hello, I am implementing the Spotify API on an Android Automotive application and am currently trying to deeplink to the native Android aut...
Device Android (1024p landscape) API 32 Emulator Operating System Android Automotive 12L Sv2 My Question or Issue Hello, I am implementing the Spotify API on an Android ...
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Hi all. The "What's New" feature currently available in the mobile app is pretty useful. I like being able to see new songs/albums from followed artists right as they're pushed into Spotify without having to wait for Friday's Release Radar. I curate ...
Hi all. The "What's New" feature currently available in the mobile app is pretty useful. I like being able to see new songs/albums from followed artists right as they're pushed into Spotify without h...
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Is there any way to expedite the extension request review? It's been a bit over a month now without a review. I know that this is not an unusual time frame. It's just a time sensitive thing and if there's a way to speed up the process, I'd greatly ap...
Is there any way to expedite the extension request review? It's been a bit over a month now without a review. I know that this is not an unusual time frame. It's just a time sensitive thing and if th...
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Does anyone know how to capture the HTTP response header "Retry-After" value using Spotipy?I use Spotipy"audio_features" module , I issued too many requests and finally occured 249 error, temporaily banned.I would like to know when the ban is cancell...
Does anyone know how to capture the HTTP response header "Retry-After" value using Spotipy? I use Spotipy"audio_features" module , I issued too many requests and finally occured 249 error, temporail...
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Hi there! I'm a developer who wants to start toying around with Spotify Web API. However, when heading to my Dashboard to create an app with which I could play around, I was surprised to notice I couldn't create any more apps because I reached the li...
Hi there! I'm a developer who wants to start toying around with Spotify Web API. However, when heading to my Dashboard to create an app with which I could play around, I was surprised to notice I cou...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryBrasilDeviceMacbook M2 2023Operating SystemmacOS Sonoma 14.6.1 I am developing an iOS application using the Spotify iOS SDK and am facing difficulties obtaining the refresh_token after the authorization request. I followed the ...
Plan Free/Premium Country Brasil Device Macbook M2 2023 Operating System macOS Sonoma 14.6.1 I am developing an iOS application using the Spotify iOS SDK and am facing difficulties ob...
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PlanPremiumCountrySwedenDeviceIntel NUC i5-10210UOperating SystemUbuntu 20.04 My Question or IssueI have an app that has a couple of users with different album ids. Simplified, every two seconds i loop the users and make a request to the spotify get ...
Plan Premium Country Sweden Device Intel NUC i5-10210U Operating System Ubuntu 20.04 My Question or Issue I have an app that has a couple of users with different album ids. ...
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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 Issuehttps://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-an-artistThere is a new Abo...
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 https:/...
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Hello, everyone.I was thinking of a custom Spotify station on the Raspberry Pi 4 with the latest Raspberry Pi OS Lite. I'd like it set up so that I can control playback through the Spotify API and then easily share with my friends. In particular, I w...
Hello, everyone. I was thinking of a custom Spotify station on the Raspberry Pi 4 with the latest Raspberry Pi OS Lite. I'd like it set up so that I can control playback through the Spotify API and ...
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Hello.Suddenly I realised that queries like "genre:metal AND year:1982" (this one is from official example of advanced search queries at https://support.spotify.com/us/article/search/) stopped to work correctly. It used to bring exactly what was requ...
Hello. Suddenly I realised that queries like "genre:metal AND year:1982" (this one is from official example of advanced search queries at https://support.spotify.com/us/article/search/) stopp...
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