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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...

  • Spotify
  • Spotify
  • natedonkey
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Documentation Error on Refreshing Tokens

I lost some time trying to debug this, commenting just so it's fixed. In the browser example in https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/tutorials/refreshing-tokens the code reads: localStorage.setItem('access_token', response.accessToken)...

  • Newbie
  • I lost some time trying to debug this, commenting just so it's fixed.   In the browser example in https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/tutorials/refreshing-tokens the c...
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Issues in the Spotify Web API reference documentation

I have found out that the reference documentation for the Spotify Web API is sourced by the OpenAPI specification file from https://developer.spotify.com/_data/documentation/web-api/reference/open-api-schema.yml. While using the Spotify Web API for t...

  • Regular
  • I have found out that the reference documentation for the Spotify Web API is sourced by the OpenAPI specification file from https://developer.spotify.com/_data/documentation/web-api/r...
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  • "Bug"
    API reference
    documentation
    OpenAPI
    Spotify Web API
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Active Documentation Missing Info

My Question or IssueCurrently I am using the Web-API refrence Docs to help understand waht requests need to be made for what data. My issues is that it appears as thoguh some sections of the docs are not up to date and/or not completed. For example u...

  • Casual Listener
  • ...ocs are not up to date and/or not completed. For example under the `/playlists/{playlist_id}/tracks` documentation, there is no form for how the data is supposed to be received. it simply states t...
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Mismatch between web API docs and API behaviour

There seems to be a mismatch between the documentation of some of the returntypes of the web API and the actual return types: The docs for "get an albums tracks" says that it returns an album object. In reality it returns a paging object containing t...

  • Newbie
  • There seems to be a mismatch between the documentation of some of the return types of the web API and the actual return types:   The docs for "get an albums tracks" says that it returns an a...
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  • documentation
    Web API
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Issue with Web API documentation for Get User's Followed Artists

I would like to report an issue with the Web API documentation for the Get User's Followed Artists endpoint: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#endpoint-get-followed. Under the Authorization section, the required scope sho...

  • Newbie
  • I would like to report an issue with the Web API documentation for the Get User's Followed Artists endpoint: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#endpoint-get-followed....
  • Hubo
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  • documentation
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Broken link in documentation

The User Profile API link seems to be broken.Current link:https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#category-user-profileWorking link:https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#category-users-profile

  • Casual Listener
  • The User Profile API link seems to be broken. Current link: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#category-user-profile Working link: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation...
  • EthanS1
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  • Broken Link
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[Web API] Missing body parameters in documentation

At the endpints: - Remove User's Saved Shows- Save Shows for Current Userthe documentation for the body parameters (ids) are missing, although they work and they exist in the respective endpoints for albums and tracks.

  • Visitor
  • At the endpints:  - Remove User's Saved Shows - Save Shows for Current User the documentation for the body parameters (ids) are missing, although they work and they exist in the respective e...
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  • documentation
    Web API
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