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February 2026 Spotify for Developers update: thread

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...

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How to fetch the transcript of a podcast episode?

Is it possible to retrieve the auto generated transcript of a specific podcast episode via the api?

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Is it possible to retrieve the auto generated transcript of a specific podcast episode via the api?

vivodionisio

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Transcription rules
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Spotify API is not reachable

PlanPremiumCountryCzech Republic My Question or IssueHello, I've been using Spotify API for some, but it stopped working suddenly. According to my investigation, my webhosting server cannot reach api.spotify.com and connection always times-out. DNS r...

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Plan Premium Country Czech Republic   My Question or Issue Hello,   I've been using Spotify API for some, but it stopped working suddenly. According to my investigation, my webhosti...

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How to Reach 250k Active Users with Development Plan Limited to 25 Test Users

Hi Spotify Team,My team and I are working on a new app idea that integrates with Spotify in a creative and engaging way. Our concept involves allowing users to connect their Spotify accounts to our application so we can use the API to add tracks to t...

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Hi Spotify Team, My team and I are working on a new app idea that integrates with Spotify in a creative and engaging way. Our concept involves allowing users to connect their Spotify accounts to our...

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API Access
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Add Tracks to Playlist Changed ; No URIs Provided error

Did the API change the functionality of adding tracks to a playlist? I have my code load in TrackIds and use them to add tracks to a playlist but just today I got an error saying that I did not provide any URIs. Did something change in the backend th...

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Did the API change the functionality of adding tracks to a playlist? I have my code load in TrackIds and use them to add tracks to a playlist but just today I got an error saying that I did not provi...

AliAnderson

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Recommendation endpoint doesn't respond

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...

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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 yesterda...

Ashugh

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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.

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

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Recently played stream

PlanPremium My Question or IssueHi everyone, I am currently building my portfolio in React, and I want to showcase my recently played tracks on it. Is it possible to do so currently? I have already tried:https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/we...

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Plan Premium  My Question or Issue Hi everyone, I am currently building my portfolio in React, and I want to showcase my recently played tracks on it. Is it possible to do so currently? I h...

Ximzend

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Solved!! 401 response when asking for user's profile but access token works for other request

PlanPremium My Question or IssueI am working on a web app and I need to access the user's profile information to learn if they have a premium account. The access token I have been using already has the scope needed for this request, but when I run th...

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Plan Premium   My Question or Issue I am working on a web app and I need to access the user's profile information to learn if they have a premium account. The access token I have been using ...

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cURL Timeout when using Tuna on OBS for Spotify API App

Hello! Im currently having an obs breaking issue rn thats causing my obs to freeze because when using the Tuna plugin to display a spotify song and etc it sends to my log in obs that theres a timeout with cURL trying to send spotify a comand/call, Im...

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Hello! Im currently having an obs breaking issue rn thats causing my obs to freeze because when using the Tuna plugin to display a spotify song and etc it sends to my log in obs that theres a timeout...

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AI Spotify Policy in Apps such as PlaylistAI and Playlistable

Hi all, I've been looking for an easy way to create new playlists and better organize my Spotify account when I stumbled upon apps like PlaylistAI (https://www.playlistai.app/) and Playlistable (https://playlistable.io/) and was hoping to develop a s...

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Hi all,  I've been looking for an easy way to create new playlists and better organize my Spotify account when I stumbled upon apps like PlaylistAI (https://www.playlistai.app/) and Playlistabl...

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Monetizing audio books on a cross-platform app for commercial use

Hi,I am looking to create an app that would take a genre such as "ghost stories" and have them available for purchase or stream on my app. I am a startup so I dont know how many users will use the app but it will scale over time. thanks,Rob

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Hi, I am looking to create an app that would take a genre such as "ghost stories"  and have them available for purchase or stream on my app.     I am a startup so I dont know h...

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terms of use for developers for an online shop

I have an urgent question regarding the terms of use for developers, to which we have not found a clear answer in the "Developer Terms".I would like to make it possible for users of an online shop to log in with their Spotify account in order to rece...

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I have an urgent question regarding the terms of use for developers, to which we have not found a clear answer in the "Developer Terms". I would like to make it possible for users of an online shop ...

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What Spotify Web API does the DJ button use?

> Not feeling the vibe? Just hit the DJ button at the bottom right of the screen to be taken to a different genre, artist, or mood. What API does this button use? I can't find any API under the Spotify Web API that seems to do what it does. The DJ's ...

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> Not feeling the vibe? Just hit the DJ button at the bottom right of the screen to be taken to a different genre, artist, or mood.   What API does this button use? I can't find any AP...

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API data fetch from label profile, label playlists

DeviceMac pro max m1 2022 My Question or IssueWe have different playlists that include only label releases. We run ads for those, so we want to know how many streams it's gathering daily, so we can cross data to know how effective they are. Today wha...

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Device Mac pro max m1 2022   My Question or Issue We have different playlists that include only label releases. We run ads for those, so we want to know how many streams it's gathering daily...

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401 Error with seemingly working access token

I am using the following code to get an access token, and the final post request returns a status code of 200 and when I print out the access token it looks good. However as soon as I try to use the access token I get a 401 Unauthroized error. I have...

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I am using the following code to get an access token, and the final post request returns a status code of 200 and when I print out the access token it looks good. However as soon as I try to use the ...

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Logging user out?

I have created an application and the user is able to log in to connect to their Spotify account, however, I want to add a logout button so that other users can use it but I'm not sure how. I've been able to redirect the user to the login page but wh...

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I have created an application and the user is able to log in to connect to their Spotify account, however, I want to add a logout button so that other users can use it but I'm not sure how. I've been...

DanKenan

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Discover Weekly Within API

Hello - I know that if your Discover Weekly playlist is refreshed, it's not simple (and maybe impossible) to recover the songs from the previous week.I am aware of the myriad of ways to backup the Discover Weekly playlist both manually and programmat...

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Hello -  I know that if your Discover Weekly playlist is refreshed, it's not simple (and maybe impossible) to recover the songs from the previous week. I am aware of the myriad of ways to ...

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Total play count of songs over time (monthly)

I am attempting to conduct a research project which requires accessing the stream data/play count of any specific song over time. So far, I've found third-party APIs which offer this data (sites such as soundcharts.com) but only for very recent dates...

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I am attempting to conduct a research project which requires accessing the stream data/play count of any specific song over time. So far, I've found third-party APIs which offer this data (sites such...

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API get user's saved tracks by user id

Hi,I'm a software engineer, and I'm working on a new application based on Spotify.I would like to know if it's possible to get a user's saved tracks, by the user id ? My goal is to add a service on a Springboot application, to get users saved tracks ...

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Hi, I'm a software engineer, and I'm working on a new application based on Spotify. I would like to know if it's possible to get a user's saved tracks, by the user id ?   My goal is to add a...

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How do I know that my app token has been rate limited?

Plan: PremiumCountry: USDevice: Macbook Pro M2 Max Hello Everyone, I'm running some code using the spotipy package in python and was wondering how I could get the request_header that says what kind of error I may be receiving. When I run my code, it ...

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Plan: Premium Country: US Device: Macbook Pro M2 Max   Hello Everyone,  I'm running some code using the spotipy package in python and was wondering how I could get the request_header t...

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