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Web API quota updates for Development Mode

Hey everyone, I've created this thread to share some updates to how quotas work for Development Mode apps on the Spotify Web API to help you better organize your projects. We've shared a Blog post that explains everything in detail. Here's the short ...

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eastoncrafter

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Refresh token expiration: discussion thread

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...

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internettum

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Spotify PKCE Auth Invalid Client Secret

PlanPremiumCountryCanada DeviceChrome. Macbook Pro 2013Operating SystemMac OS X Catalina My Question or Issue I am trying to set up my web application to use the Proof Key for Code Exchange. However, when I try try to get the access_token by doing a ...

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Plan Premium Country Canada   Device Chrome. Macbook Pro 2013 Operating System Mac OS X Catalina   My Question or Issue   I am trying to set up my web application to use th...

henrynguyen7

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Solved!! Suddenly Getting 403 Errors on /me endpoint

My Question or IssueI deployed an app on Heroku that works perfectly fine for me (https://bowies-canvas-a86775402ce2.herokuapp.com/). However, I've sent the link to others for testing but they can't make it past typically the same page. They login to...

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  My Question or Issue I deployed an app on Heroku that works perfectly fine for me (https://bowies-canvas-a86775402ce2.herokuapp.com/). However, I've sent the link to others for testing but t...

Ximzend

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Superuser Contribution Typo in api docs

There is a small typo in the developer docs in https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/tutorials/refreshing-tokens In the browser example code block line 19 is missing an equal sign after the const name. const body = await fetch(url, payl...

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There is a small typo in the developer docs in https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/tutorials/refreshing-tokens   In the browser example code block line 19 is missing an eq...

LambertSpot

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Superuser Contribution [WEB API] Follow playlist vs Add to Library

Hello,The Web API still offers endpoint to follow / unfollow a playlist and to check if a user follows a playlist, but I don't see this action in Spotify anymore, it seems to have been replaced with "Add to Library", which doesn't seem to be the same...

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Hello, The Web API still offers endpoint to follow / unfollow a playlist and to check if a user follows a playlist, but I don't see this action in Spotify anymore, it seems to have been replaced wit...

LambertSpot

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Superuser Contribution Auth not working for web api on certain iPhones

I'm using the Spotify Web API to create a music player within a web app. I've got everything working fine on all devices, except for newer iPhones. On the iPhone 10, iPhone 14 and iPhone 15, on all browsers, authentication isn't working. After loggin...

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I'm using the Spotify Web API to create a music player within a web app. I've got everything working fine on all devices, except for newer iPhones.   On the iPhone 10, iPhone 14 and iPhone 15,...

LambertSpot

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What if, there were a setting to restart the playlist at the end of the last song?

What if the devs add a feature so we can automaticaly restart the playlist after last song. Instead of listening to recommended songs.

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What if the devs add a feature so we can automaticaly restart the playlist after last song. Instead of listening to recommended songs.

Ximzend

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Solved!! Development mode API key, User Management, login with Google

Hello, My API key is in the Development quota mode (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/concepts/quota-modes). I've followed the directions to add testers under the User Management tab. Most of my testers are able to login without any...

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Hello,   My API key is in the Development quota mode (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/concepts/quota-modes). I've followed the directions to add testers under the User Mana...

zanderpaul

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Whenever I play the song, after few seconds the sound doesn't come

Whenever I play the song, after few seconds the sound doesn't come but music keeps playing then I open app and puse and play the song after some time it happens again and I am facing this problem since I was not a premium member, when I will buy your...

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Whenever I play the song, after few seconds the sound doesn't come but music keeps playing then I open app and puse and play the song after some time it happens again and I am facing this problem sin...

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Postman vs SoapUI for Spotify API?

Hi all,I would just like to ask whether Postman or SoapUI would be better for working with Spotify's API? It seems that these two choices are very popular among developers.However, aside from Postman and SoapUI, I have also been recommended a couple ...

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Hi all, I would just like to ask whether Postman or SoapUI would be better for working with Spotify's API? It seems that these two choices are very popular among developers. However, aside from...

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401's on some, not all, search API calls

I have an app that maintains a ranking of my most played songs over certain periods. I get this ranked list from last.fm, which does not have direct links to the spotify URIs, so I make calls to the /search endpoint for each song in order to get a UR...

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I have an app that maintains a ranking of my most played songs over certain periods. I get this ranked list from last.fm, which does not have direct links to the spotify URIs, so I make calls to the ...

ReubenF

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Constantly getting rate limit even after a few requests

I'm having very aggressively rate limiting issues with the Spotify Web API for my project, Even after creating a new application and implementing caching for most requests I'm still facing problems - After only 2-3 requests, I get rate limited for al...

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I'm having very aggressively rate limiting issues with the Spotify Web API for my project, Even after creating a new application and implementing caching for most requests I'm still facing probl...

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recently played pagination problem

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceiMac Operating SystemmacOS Sonoma 14.5 My Question or IssueI call the following command in a loop. it should stop when response['next'] is NULL: response = sp.current_user_recently_played(limit=50, after=int(cutoff_time.tim...

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Plan Premium Country USA Device iMac  Operating System macOS Sonoma 14.5   My Question or Issue I call the following command in a loop.  it should stop when response['next'] ...

tyro2001

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Possible Bug
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Spotify Remote SDK fails while connecting to Automotive spotify App

PlanFree/PremiumCountry DeviceAutomotiveOperating SystemAndroid My Question or Issue Our Team is building an app that connects to spotify app for playback control. Android spotify remote sdk not able to connect to spotify Automotive app. Internally t...

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Plan Free/Premium Country   Device Automotive Operating System Android   My Question or Issue   Our Team is building an app that connects to spotify app for playback control...

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Possible Bug
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Spotify random skips songs

Hi everyone, I'm running into a strange issue with a music guessing game we’ve developed that uses Spotify URLs. We format the links like this: https://open.spotify.com/track/{{trackid}} These links are embedded in QR codes. When scanned with a mobil...

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Hi everyone,   I'm running into a strange issue with a music guessing game we’ve developed that uses Spotify URLs. We format the links like this: https://open.spotify.com/track/{{trackid}...

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Getting more than 50 recently played songs from API

I'm using the Spotify API to get my recently played songs and would really love to be able to get more than 50 of them. Is there any way at all that I could do this? I'm happy to pay for it too. Thanks!

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I'm using the Spotify API to get my recently played songs and would really love to be able to get more than 50 of them. Is there any way at all that I could do this? I'm happy to pay for it too. &nb...

jverma

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How does last.fm retrieve a user's full listening history?

From all the API calls available, I could find I got get recently played but that can retrieve at most 50 recently played songs.

Casual Listener

From all the API calls available, I could find I got get recently played but that can retrieve at most 50 recently played songs.

jverma

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Issue with API Usage for Managing a Large Spotify Account

Plan:PremiumDevice:PCOperating System:Windows 10My Question or Issue:I’m encountering an issue with the Spotify API while managing my account, where I follow over 2,400 artists. My project involves running a weekly script to check all these artists f...

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Plan: Premium Device: PC Operating System: Windows 10 My Question or Issue: I’m encountering an issue with the Spotify API while managing my account, where I follow over 2,400 artists. My proj...

SI0810

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Followed Artists
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Upload Daily Podcast directly from datacenter

Hello!We like to upload, refresh and delete Podcast Episodes directly from our datacenter withou using the Webportal. Is it possible?Requirements on Spotify Side:- Server accepting Upload with ftp, sftp, sco, ssh, rsync ...- Authetification Key based...

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Hello! We like to upload, refresh and delete Podcast Episodes directly from our datacenter withou using the Webportal. Is it possible? Requirements on Spotify Side: - Server accepting Upload with ...

cloudson

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Upload API
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Is it legal to use 30 second preview via API?

Hi, I'm creating an app and I wanted to know if it's legal to use the Spotify API to play a 30 second preview of the song.Basically I would insert a button with the words "Listen to song preview", and then I would have to insert something else?Can th...

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Hi, I'm creating an app and I wanted to know if it's legal to use the Spotify API to play a 30 second preview of the song. Basically I would insert a button with the words "Listen to song preview", ...

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