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Welcome to the Spotify for Developers board!

Welcome to the Spotify for Developers board! This forum is the place for conversations about Spotify's Web API, Web Playback SDK, Widgets, and other developer tools. Here you can ask questions about the Spotify platform, chat with other developers, a...

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Missing songs

PlanPremiumCountryCanadaDeviceiPhone XS MaxOperating SystemiOS 14.4 My Question or IssueSo many of my favourite korean songs/playlists seem not working normal as I see empty titles or missing songs that existed a few days ago and now they're gone bla...

  • Newbie
  • Plan Premium Country Canada Device iPhone XS Max Operating System iOS 14.4   My Question or Issue So many of my favourite korean songs/playlists seem not working normal as I see empty ...
  • serpencexalloid
  • Newbie
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Risk of exposing app security key on frontend

Hello,I want to use the app private and secret keys on a frontend page to retrieve some playlist data via API.Is there any risk of exposing the app secret key on frontend?If yes - what can somebody do if he knows my secret key?Thanks in advance.

  • Newbie
  • Hello, I want to use the app private and secret keys on a frontend page to retrieve some playlist data via API. Is there any risk of exposing the app secret key on frontend? If yes - what can some...
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I urgently need approval from Spotify to make an app

Some context first: I'm a student doing the IB (international baccalaureate), a part of the computer science course involves building your own program. So my idea, was to make a Spotify trivia game, where the app would take information from Spotify l...

  • Regular
  • Some context first: I'm a student doing the IB (international baccalaureate), a part of the computer science course involves building your own program.   So my idea, was to make a Spotify triv...
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[Bug] Broken Anchor Tag in Web API Reference

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/ The User API link on the left navigation is broken on the webpage.The link on the navigation pane either needs to be changed to "category-users-profile" or the header's ID needs to be cha...

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  • https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/   The User API link on the left navigation is broken on the webpage. The link on the navigation pane either need...
  • Hubo
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Are recommendations sorted?

PlanPremiumCountryNL My Question or IssueAre the recommendations based on seed song/artist/genre (only, i.e. no other parameters) ordered on relevancy or are they sorted randomly? In the reference documents they state this about the RecommendationsOb...

  • Casual Listener
  • Plan Premium Country NL   My Question or Issue Are the recommendations based on seed song/artist/genre (only, i.e. no other parameters) ordered on relevancy or are they sorted randoml...
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Commercial License Request

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or IssueOn December 02,2020, I completed an application for a commercial license from Spotify. I prov...

  • Music Fan
  • 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 On Dece...
  • Mitchkelly8
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follow button developer website down

Hey there!I am trying to develop a follow button that's linked to my Spotify profile. The Developer website that should be able to do it (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/widgets/generate/follow-button/) is just loading a black screen for ...

  • Newbie
  • Hey there! I am trying to develop a follow button that's linked to my Spotify profile. The Developer website that should be able to do it (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/widgets/generat...
  • Hubo
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Superuser Contribution Issues with Recommendations API?

PlanPremiumCountrySwedenOperating System(iOS 14, Windows 10)My Question or IssueHey!I'm working mainly with the recommendations and track APIs. Today, when I picked up my project, all of a sudden some recommendations requests does not return any reco...

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  • Plan Premium Country Sweden Operating System (iOS 14, Windows 10) My Question or Issue Hey! I'm working mainly with the recommendations and track APIs. Today, when I picked up my project,...
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Is there a way to like and dislike individual tracks via the API?

When I listen to the Release Radar or the Weekly Discovery playlists, I am able to either "Like" or "Dislike" individual tracks. I would like those features to become available through the API. My end goal is to re-map keyboard shortcuts to be able t...

  • Newbie
  • When I listen to the Release Radar or the Weekly Discovery playlists, I am able to either "Like" or "Dislike" individual tracks.   I would like those features to become available through the A...
  • ktuli44
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Solved!! What am I doing wrong? I have applied for commercialization of an app but have not heard anything.

PlanPremiumMy Question or IssueI have a website (non-monetized at the moment), that creates playlists for swing dancers. It is called http://easypeasyplaylist.com. I have created an app in the developer.spotify.com and applied December 2019. However,...

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  • Plan Premium My Question or Issue I have a website (non-monetized at the moment), that creates playlists for swing dancers. It is called http://easypeasyplaylist.com.   I have created an ...
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Can I do this legally?

I want to build a niche database, but it would require me importing The names of all Artists, Albums, and Tracks and saving them so I have the references separately without hitting the API every time I need them. Is this a violation or not? I'm tryin...

  • Newbie
  • I want to build a niche database, but it would require me importing The names of all Artists, Albums, and Tracks and saving them so I have the references separately without hitting the API every time...
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Quick Start with iOS 14/SwiftUI

Operating System: iOS 14; Device: iPhone Hi there, I'm just getting started with figuring out how to integrate Spotify API into iOS 14 / Swift UI. However, I especially had a few troubles with Obj-C Linker Flag and AppDelegate which isn't available i...

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  • Operating System: iOS 14; Device: iPhone   Hi there, I'm just getting started with figuring out how to integrate Spotify API into iOS 14 / Swift UI. However, I especially had a few troubles wi...
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No statistics on Dashboard

Hello,I've been working on an Android application for 5 years now (Originally using the now discontinued API). It only requests Album Art of currently playing songs. Yet, my Dashboard still shows"No data available.Check back when you've made somerequ...

  • Newbie
  • Hello, I've been working on an Android application for 5 years now (Originally using the now discontinued API). It only requests Album Art of currently playing songs. Yet, my Dashboard still shows ...
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encoding/format of audio stream

Hi, I'm working on a React Native app for iOS and Android which interfaces to Spotify's API, and would like to make an animated logo which moves according to certain frequencies of the audio being streamed (e.g. a low-pass filter). I've got a library...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi, I'm working on a React Native app for iOS and Android which interfaces to Spotify's API, and would like to make an animated logo which moves according to certain frequencies of the audio being st...
  • murraypaul
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Why are so many tracks preview URL's set to nil?

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...

  • Regular
  • 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...
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Solved!! Refreshing tokens for PKCE-authorised users

Hi,OAuth2 specifications list PKCE as an extension to the standard. As you state in your documentation, the refresh token can only be used once. Why is this? I could not find such a recommendation, although the original spec did state that old refres...

  • Music Fan
  • Hi, OAuth2 specifications list PKCE as an extension to the standard. As you state in your documentation, the refresh token can only be used once. Why is this? I could not find such a recommendation,...
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Spotify Search API algorithm

Hello, I am a data science student and I am trying to analyze a dataset which consists of many different songs collected from Spotify using the Spotify Web API. The way these songs were collected is by using the Search API and searching by year. Spot...

  • Newbie
  •   Hello, I am a data science student and I am trying to analyze a dataset which consists of many different songs collected from Spotify using the Spotify Web API. The way these songs were coll...
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Solved!! Unable to play album URI via Start/Resume a User’s Playback

Trying to play a non-playlist URI via the https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play endpoint is failing. How can we initiate album playback via URI?

  • Casual Listener
  • Trying to play a non-playlist URI via the https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play endpoint is failing.   How can we initiate album playback via URI?
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Solved!! Sometime my search request return nothing

Hello, I made an API on ASP.NET who search tracks info. Sometime when I do a search request wuth my app i got nothing but with Spotify console i have tracks Exemple: Request:https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=CLEO%20LAINE%20LET'S%20SLIP%20AWAY&type=...

  • Regular
  • Hello, I made an API on ASP.NET who search tracks info.  Sometime when I do a search request wuth my app i got nothing but with Spotify console i have tracks  Exemple:  Request: ht...
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Superuser Contribution Spotify Community (for Developers) is a regress

Sorry for say that, but I have to. Since you guys archived the WebAPI repository from Github and all the issues are moved to here, this created a huge problem. I understand that this new platform took a lot of work, and I think it's great to Spotify'...

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  • Sorry for say that, but I have to. Since you guys archived the WebAPI repository from Github and all the issues are moved to here, this created a huge problem. I understand that this new platform too...
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