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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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Cant get to my dashboard.

have tried for 2h now to get to my dashboard but the page keeps loading and then I get this message: Something went wrong, we could not load this dashboard page. Try again later. Please help! // alex

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have tried for 2h now to get to my dashboard but the page keeps loading and then I get this message:  Something went wrong, we could not load this dashboard page. Try again later.   Plea...

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We were not able to load your account information. Please refresh the page and try again.

PlanPremiumCountryNetherlandsDeviceDesktopOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueI a m trying to create an app on https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/createThe form shows, but after x seconds the form disappears and i get this error: We w...

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Plan Premium Country Netherlands Device Desktop Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue I a m trying to create an app on https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard/create ...

ribezaz

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Very long Retry-After values on Web API 429

PlanNot applicable - Spotify Web API developer appFree/PremiumNot applicableCountrySouth KoreaDeviceServer-side app on Google Cloud RunOperating SystemNode.js on Google Cloud RunMy Question or IssueHello,I’m developing a music web service using the S...

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Plan Not applicable - Spotify Web API developer app Free/Premium Not applicable Country South Korea Device Server-side app on Google Cloud Run Operating System Node.js on Google Cloud Run M...

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IFrame API truncates milliseconds when using seek()

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDevice2023 Macbook ProOperating SystemMacOS 26.3.1 My Question or Issue We use the Spotify Embed to play podcasts alongside synchronized, timestamped transcripts. Our sync data has millisecond precision (e.g., a lyric l...

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Plan Premium Country United States Device 2023 Macbook Pro Operating System MacOS 26.3.1   My Question or Issue   We use the Spotify Embed to play podcasts alongside synchronized...

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Solved!! 403 Forbidden on /v1/audio-features using both user and client credentials tokens

Hi everyone,I'm developing a Spotify Web API integration and consistently receive 403 Forbidden responses from the /v1/audio-features endpoint.What I tested:– User access token (with user-top-read etc.): 403– Client credentials token (no scopes): 403...

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Hi everyone, I'm developing a Spotify Web API integration and consistently receive 403 Forbidden responses from the /v1/audio-features endpoint. What I tested: – User access token (with user-top-r...

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Spotify iframe API play()/resume() starts preview playback while iframe controls allow full playback

I am seeing different behavior between playback started through the Spotify iframe API and playback started through the embedded player’s own controls. Environment:- Spotify Premium account- Logged into Spotify in the same browser- Desktop browser- S...

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I am seeing different behavior between playback started through the Spotify iframe API and playback started through the embedded player’s own controls.   Environment: - Spotify Premium accoun...

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Spotify auth returns email not verified error

PlanPremiumCountryUK My Question or IssueI've set up Spotify authentication with my NextJS app via Supabase. When I authenticate I keep getting errors relating to the email address not being verified. Here's the callback URL I receive: http://localho...

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Plan Premium Country UK   My Question or Issue I've set up Spotify authentication with my NextJS app via Supabase. When I authenticate I keep getting errors relating to the email address n...

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I've deleted a widget accidentally

Hello everyone! I have a little problem because the support advised me to write a topic here and hopefully some moderator will help me with that. Usually you can create 3 widgets in the Dashboard, I had 3 but I delete accidentally one of my widgets c...

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Hello everyone!   I have a little problem because the support advised me to write a topic here and hopefully some moderator will help me with that.  Usually you can create 3 widgets in t...

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Superuser Contribution Low number of requests leading to 429 response

I've been working with the Web API for the past few months and have never hit 429 responses. Today I opted to migrate my app early to force myself to adapt to the new API changes. Incredibly low rate limits are preventing me from accomplishing anythi...

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I've been working with the Web API for the past few months and have never hit 429 responses. Today I opted to migrate my app early to force myself to adapt to the new API changes. Incredibly low rate...

kilenaitor

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Hard coded n8n local web address incompatible with newer requirements

PlanPremiumCountryUnited StatesDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueI am working with an n8n agent and you no longer allow "local host" addresses but your 0Auth redirect uri on n8n is unchangeable as http://localhost:5678/rest/oauth...

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Plan Premium Country United States Device PC Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue I am working with an n8n agent and you no longer allow "local host" addresses but your 0...

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so my 6k labs web api stopped working

I went to fix it by deleting it and trying to create it again and its saying I reached my limit mind you I only have one app now

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I went to fix it by deleting it and trying to create it again and its saying I reached my limit mind you I only have one app now 

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Todos desenvolvedores pobres motim excluir do brasil

Todos os desenvolvedores estão indignados, vamos excluir nossas contas para que o Spotify reconsidere o caso após bloquear nossos segredos e aplicativos essenciais. Precisamos nos unir e excluir nossas contas para que a equipe de investidores pare de...

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Todos os desenvolvedores estão indignados, vamos excluir nossas contas para que o Spotify reconsidere o caso após bloquear nossos segredos e aplicativos essenciais. Precisamos nos unir e excluir noss...

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Superuser Contribution locked out for 24 hours with no warning

Hi Spotify Developer Support,I ran into what appears to be a bug or significant UX oversight in the developer dashboard tonight.I created an app before I had Spotify Premium set up. The dashboard allowed me to create it but showed an error indicating...

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Hi Spotify Developer Support, I ran into what appears to be a bug or significant UX oversight in the developer dashboard tonight. I created an app before I had Spotify Premium set up. The dashboard...

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Verify email for Developer Access

My account (family premium) which i've had for 7 years has had its email verified but i'm unable to proceed with application creation - i'm stuck completely. Has anyone had this issue before and could help me resolve it? I receive the email, click ve...

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My account (family premium) which i've had for 7 years has had its email verified but i'm unable to proceed with application creation - i'm stuck completely. Has anyone had this issue before and coul...

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Episode artwork returning show-level artwork via API despite unique per-episode artwork existing

I'm building a WordPress integration using the Spotify Web API to display podcast episode data, and I've noticed that the images field returned for episodes is consistently returning the show-level artwork rather than the unique per-episode artwork t...

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I'm building a WordPress integration using the Spotify Web API to display podcast episode data, and I've noticed that the images field returned for episodes is consistently returning the show-level a...

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Rate limits way too low still - 26th April 2026

API rate limits are still way too low. I literally run 1 bit of code that does 3 requests and it hits the limits...it''s a joke.... please increase the rate limit for the depreciated endpoints that you kept as despite you keeping them temporarily the...

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API rate limits are still way too low. I literally run 1 bit of code that does 3 requests and it hits the limits...it''s a joke.... please increase the rate limit for the depreciated endpoints that y...

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Implentation of spotify player

PlanPremiumCountryUKDeviceMacbookOperating SystemApple My Question or IssueI am trying to implement Spotify player controls to my website but I keep getting the error message Spotify Player ErrorRequest failed with status code 400 I have completed ev...

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Plan Premium Country UK Device Macbook Operating System Apple   My Question or Issue I am trying to implement Spotify player controls to my website but I keep getting the error message...

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Superuser Contribution 403 Error - Active premium subscription required for the owner of the app.

PlanPremiumCountryUnited KingdomDeviceAPI My Question or IssueI am aware of the last-minute changes brought to the community in this post: https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2026-02-06-update-on-developer-access-and-platform-security. We responded to...

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Plan Premium Country United Kingdom Device API   My Question or Issue I am aware of the last-minute changes brought to the community in this post: https://developer.spotify.com/blog...

ピカチュウず

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403 forbidden errors

# Spotify API Bug Report**Reporter:** DJ/Developer using Spotify API for music library analysis**Date:** October 13, 2025**Environment:** macOS, Python 3.9, Spotipy library---## SummaryMultiple critical issues encountered when using Spotify Web API f...

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# Spotify API Bug Report **Reporter:** DJ/Developer using Spotify API for music library analysis **Date:** October 13, 2025 **Environment:** macOS, Python 3.9, Spotipy library --- ## Summary Mu...

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