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Updating the Criteria for Web API Extended Access

Hey, I created this thread to get your feedback on our blog post around changes to the Web API extended access criteria, which will take place on May 15th. Please share any of your thoughts on this change in the comments below. All of your feedback w...

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  • Spotify
  • Ogi23
  • Newbie
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Spotify iOS SDK authentication returns 'unknown_error'

PlanPremiumCountryArgentinaDeviceiPhone 15 ProOperating SystemiOS 18.4Spotify Version9.0.32.638Spotify iOS SDK Version3.0.0Xcode Version16.3 I'm encountering persistent "unknown_error" responses when attempting to authenticate using the Spotify iOS S...

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  • Casual Listener
  • ...ersistent "unknown_error" responses when attempting to authenticate using the Spotify iOS SDK. This happens regardless of the authentication method used (both SessionManager and A...
  • jmandawg
  • Casual Listener
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    iOS
    SDK
    unknown error
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Solved!! Proper auth method for a webserver sharing spotify data of only one user

PlanPremiumCountryIrelandDeviceN/AOperating SystemN/A My Question or IssueFor my personal website I would like to show a list of my recently played tracks on Spotify. This is made available via a rest api endpoint on my server. To authenticate my ser...

  • Newbie
  • ...s made available via a rest api endpoint on my server. To authenticate my server with spotify's api I have defined my application's redirect_uri to `localhost:XXXX/api/spotify/callback`, and manually s...
  • ribezaz
  • Spotify Star
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  • api
    auth
    Question
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AUTHENTICATION_SERVICE_UNKNOWN_ERROR for some users

Hello,We integrated the Spotify Authorization API in our app. Some users get AUTHENTICATION_SERVICE_UNKNOWN_ERROR when they try to log in.After investigating this issue it seems that users that did not verified their Spotify login email - will get th...

  • Newbie
  • Hello, We integrated the Spotify Authorization API in our app. Some users get AUTHENTICATION_SERVICE_UNKNOWN_ERROR when they try to log in. After investigating this issue it seems that u...
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    auth
    AUTHENTICATION_SERVICE_UNKNOWN_ERROR
    email
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react native open spotify app for authentication

PlanPremiumDeviceIOS / Android Hello, I would like to authorize my app on the spotify application and not on the web app, except that https://account.spotify.com does not open with the spotify application, what should I do. It already work with webap...

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  • Plan Premium Device IOS / Android   Hello,   I would like to authorize my app on the spotify application and not on the web app, except that https://account.spotify.com does not o...
  • weystrom
  • Newbie
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  • auth
    Linking
    React
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Call to https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token no longer working

PlanPremiumCountryUnited States My Question or IssueUsing the following code: using var client = new HttpClient(); client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.G...

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  • ...= new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes($"{clientId}:{clientSecret}"))); var formData = new Dictionary<string, string> { { "g...
  • Ximzend
  • Spotify Star
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    auth
    Sporadic
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Adding vanilla JS examples

Hi, I tried using the Spotify Web API and it was a great experience.On the main page I started with, I saw that some of examples(https://github.com/spotify/web-api-examples) use the express framework to trigger the authorization request.I think this ...

  • Casual Listener
  • ...ramework to trigger the authorization request. I think this framework is pretty good, but just using vanilla JS will suffice for training purposes. So, I challenged myself and implemented some of the f...
  • semklim
  • Casual Listener
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    Examples
    Spotify Web API
    vanilla
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Solved!! Invalid scope - Recently played

PlanPremiumCountryUnited Kingdom DeviceWindows laptopOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueI have been developing an alternative UI for Spotify to play with locally. I want to try and recreate some of the landing/home page and so I wanted to...

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  • Plan Premium Country United Kingdom   Device Windows laptop Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue I have been developing an alternative UI for Spotify to play with l...
  • stefanwright1988
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    scopes
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