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Discuss building apps with Spotify APIs and SDKs
Hey everyone, we've created this thread to share details about Spotify Soloist. Spotify Soloist is a new, lightweight Spotify client for headless setups. It runs as a background service, supports Spotify Connect, and works on Raspberry Pi and other L...
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 ...
So in the "Disallowed use cases" for the Spotify API it says:Games or trivia quizzes: Incorporating Spotify into any gaming or quiz functionality. For example, a “name that tune” quiz would not be allowed.This is quite vague I feel since "game" is a ...
So in the "Disallowed use cases" for the Spotify API it says: Games or trivia quizzes: Incorporating Spotify into any gaming or quiz functionality. For example, a “name that tune” quiz would n...
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I am in the process of developing a music quiz application that integrates the Spotify API to play songs in the background, allowing players to guess the song's name and artist. Upon investigating the requirements for extended quota mode, I discovere...
I am in the process of developing a music quiz application that integrates the Spotify API to play songs in the background, allowing players to guess the song's name and artist. Upon investigating th...
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My Question or IssueHello Everyone,I am Umut Solmaz, a developer. I am planning to develop a music-related quiz game, and I am considering using the Spotify API for this project. However, I have some questions regarding API permissions and experience...
My Question or Issue Hello Everyone, I am Umut Solmaz, a developer. I am planning to develop a music-related quiz game, and I am considering using the Spotify API for this project. However, I have ...
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I'm developing a flask application that uses the recommendation endpoint to generate new playlists. Currently in development mode, with the only active user being myself. I ran into an issue yesterday where all my endpoint requests seem to be working...
I'm developing a flask application that uses the recommendation endpoint to generate new playlists. Currently in development mode, with the only active user being myself. I ran into an issue yesterda...
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Hi there, I hope you are all doing well. I applied to the Spotify Quota Extension two days ago and still haven't gotten a response. I don't know if there is any way I can accelerate the process. Also, do we have to re-apply for a quota extension if w...
Hi there, I hope you are all doing well. I applied to the Spotify Quota Extension two days ago and still haven't gotten a response. I don't know if there is any way I can accelerate the...
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PlanPremiumCountryUSA My Question or IssueSometime in the last week or so, the sort order of the list of user playlists returned by the "/me/playlists" API endpoint changed. Previously, it appeared to be returning the list of playlists in whatever or...
Plan Premium Country USA My Question or Issue Sometime in the last week or so, the sort order of the list of user playlists returned by the "/me/playlists" API endpoint changed. Previous...
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PlanFree/PremiumCountryUK DeviceMac desktopOperating SystemMacOS My Question or Issue I noticed a very minor UX issue. The account settings link on this page - https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-a-show - takes the user ...
Plan Free/Premium Country UK Device Mac desktop Operating System MacOS My Question or Issue I noticed a very minor UX issue. The account settings link on thi...
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CountryDenmark (DK)DeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI am trying to do a post request for a new access token / refresh the access token with this JS code: const refreshAccessToken = async () => { const refreshToken = localSt...
Country Denmark (DK) Device Desktop Operating System Windows 10 My Question or Issue I am trying to do a post request for a new access token / refresh the access token with this JS cod...
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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 ...
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...
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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...
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...
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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 equal sign after the const name. const body = await fetch(url, payl...
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...
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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 with "Add to Library", which doesn't seem to be the same...
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...
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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, on all browsers, authentication isn't working. After loggin...
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,...
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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.
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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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...
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...
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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 since I was not a premium member, when I will buy your...
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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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 ...
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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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...
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 ...
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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 problems - After only 2-3 requests, I get rate limited for al...
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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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...
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'] ...
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