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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
  • TheDDtMM
  • Gig Goer
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  • Discussion
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Web API: Get Track's Audio Features: 403 error

Hello Spotify Team, I am currently working on a project to catalog my vinyl collection along with additional song information. I recently learned that the audio-features/{id} endpoint has been deprecated. Could this be the reason why it is returning ...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello Spotify Team,   I am currently working on a project to catalog my vinyl collection along with additional song information.   I recently learned that the audio-features/{id} endpoi...
  • briiking4
  • Casual Listener
  • 3675 Views
  • 10 replies
  • 5 likes
  • Spotify Web API
  • 3675 Views
  • 10 replies
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Can’t load items right now

I was trying some apps like SPOTIFRIENDS, Friend Activity, and others recently, and a couple days ago this error message just appear. Can't load items right now. You can try logging in againFormatException: Unexpected character (at character 1)upstre...

  • Visitor
  • I was trying some apps like SPOTIFRIENDS, Friend Activity, and others recently, and a couple days ago this error message just appear.   Can't load items right now. You can try logging in again...
  • Ximzend
  • Spotify Star
  • 235 Views
  • 1 replies
  • 0 likes
  • "ISSUE"
    Spotify Web API
  • 235 Views
  • 1 replies
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Academic Use of Spotify Data for PhD Research

Hello, I’m a PhD student researching popularity in music and have used Spotify Web API in the past for my work.Currently, the developer T&C prohibit the training of ML and AI models on Spotify content, including audio features & metadata. Could anyon...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello,  I’m a PhD student researching popularity in music and have used Spotify Web API in the past for my work. Currently, the developer T&C prohibit the training of ML and AI models on S...
  • hatimqr
  • Newbie
  • 2246 Views
  • 9 replies
  • 0 likes
  • Spotify Web API
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  • 9 replies
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Web API PKCE Authorize Not Working: INVALID_CLIENT: Invalid redirect URI

PlanPremiumCountryUSADevicePixel 3a EmulatorOperating SystemAndroid 13 My Question or IssueI am developing a mobile app with flutter/dart that uses Spotify's Web API. I am able to authenticate users without PKCE but when I use PKCE I get the error "I...

  • Newbie
  • Plan Premium Country USA Device Pixel 3a Emulator Operating System Android 13   My Question or Issue I am developing a mobile app with flutter/dart that uses Spotify's Web API. I am ab...
  • Tanict
  • Casual Listener
  • 1128 Views
  • 2 replies
  • 2 likes
  • App authorization
    flutter
    PKCE
    Spotify Web API
  • 1128 Views
  • 2 replies
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Getting a user's followers

I'm working on building a simple webapp project that can display all of the user's followers.Clearly, the WebAPI doesn't support this.However, the list of a user's followers is publicly available, i.e. without authentication at https://www.open.spoti...

  • Newbie
  • I'm working on building a simple webapp project that can display all of the user's followers. Clearly, the WebAPI doesn't support this. However, the list of a user's followers is publicly a...
  • 226 Views
  • 0 replies
  • 0 likes
  • Followers
    Spotify Web API
  • 226 Views
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Oauth sign in to web api without web browser / graphical interface

I'm working on the alarm clock with Spotify playlists and albums. I wrote a client (https://github.com/ciembor/spotify-cmd) based on a Spotify Web API and it works well, but when I Connect using oauth it opens browser and then uses my callback. The p...

  • Regular
  • I'm working on the alarm clock with Spotify playlists and albums. I wrote a client (https://github.com/ciembor/spotify-cmd) based on a Spotify Web API and it works well, but when I Connect using oaut...
  • IgorM1
  • Newbie
  • 1566 Views
  • 2 replies
  • 0 likes
  • api
    authentication
    Authentication Token
    Console
    Linux
    OAuth
    oAuth2
    Spotify Web API
    Terminal
    Web API
  • 1566 Views
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Superuser Contribution Password Change Re-aunthentication Issues

On three separate occasions spotify has randomly logged me out and told me my password was incorrect (when it wasn't) - I recently made an app which connects to the spotify API which I think must be something to do with the issues as it didn't happen...

  • Newbie
  • On three separate occasions spotify has randomly logged me out and told me my password was incorrect (when it wasn't) - I recently made an app which connects to the spotify API which I think must be ...
  • LambertSpot
  • Spotify
  • 221 Views
  • 1 replies
  • 0 likes
  • Spotify Web API
  • 221 Views
  • 1 replies
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Auth attempts all return "code_verifier required" when using non-PKCE auth between iOS and Web

PlanFree/PremiumCountryUSA DeviceiPhone XROperating SystemiOS 17.4.1 My Question or IssueI'm trying to authenticate using non-PKCE between Spotify iOS SDK and Web API. Every time I try to exchange the auth code for tokens, I get a 400 error and the b...

  • Newbie
  • Plan Free/Premium Country USA   Device iPhone XR Operating System iOS 17.4.1   My Question or Issue I'm trying to authenticate using non-PKCE between Spotify iOS SDK and Web API....
  • jcrm1
  • Casual Listener
  • 770 Views
  • 1 replies
  • 0 likes
  • Auth code flow
    iOS SDK
    iossdk
    PKCE
    Possible Bug
    Spotify iOS SDK
    Spotify Web API
    Web API
  • 770 Views
  • 1 replies
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Superuser Contribution 403 for some users in Development Mode

I am using Web API in Development Mode for prototyping an idea. It runs on the web using React and Node. I am not using any Spotify libraries, just hitting Web API directly. The endpoints I am using are:- /v1/me/playlists?limit=20- /v1/me/top/tracks?...

  • Casual Listener
  • I am using Web API in Development Mode for prototyping an idea.  It runs on the web using React and Node.  I am not using any Spotify libraries, just hitting Web API directly.   ...
  • sirglag1
  • Casual Listener
  • 232 Views
  • 2 replies
  • 0 likes
  • Spotify Web API
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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...
  • Ximzend
  • Spotify Star
  • 1236 Views
  • 5 replies
  • 1 likes
  • API request
    API search
    spotify api
    Spotify Web API
  • 1236 Views
  • 5 replies
  • 1 likes

spotify webapi auth and requests

for the past few weeks ive been trying to implement spotify webapi on my app to auth users, get their pfp and handler and also get their currently playing track name and artist name but had no success. id appreciate any help.AuthViewModel:package com...

  • Casual Listener
  • for the past few weeks ive been trying to implement spotify webapi on my app to auth users, get their pfp and handler and also get their currently playing track name and artist name but had no succes...
  • 418 Views
  • 0 replies
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  • Kotlin
    Spotify Web API
  • 418 Views
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Solved!! Issues with Missing refresh_token in API Response

I successfully set up authentication and the process to obtain an access_token, but I'm facing an issue while configuring the token refresh process. According to the documentation, the response from the API when requesting a token refresh should cont...

  • Casual Listener
  • I successfully set up authentication and the process to obtain an access_token, but I'm facing an issue while configuring the token refresh process. According to the documentation, the response from ...
  • simpamusic
  • Music Fan
  • 917 Views
  • 4 replies
  • 0 likes
  • problem
    Question
    Spotify Web API
  • 917 Views
  • 4 replies
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Some testers got 403 error even were added to dev dashboard

PlanPremiumCountryAUDeviceiPhone and GalaxyOperating SystemiOS and Android My Question or IssueHi Spotify team, I am developing an app integrating web APIs and it is now on beta test. Some testers reported they received 403 error when trying to query...

  • Newbie
  • Plan Premium Country AU Device iPhone and Galaxy Operating System iOS and Android   My Question or Issue Hi Spotify team,   I am developing an app integrating web APIs and it is...
  • 714 Views
  • 0 replies
  • 2 likes
  • Developer Dashboard Problem
    Possible Bug
    Spotify Web API
  • 714 Views
  • 0 replies
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Why are so many Preview URL's missing from the API

Working with the Spotify Web API I have realized so many songs are missing their preview URL's when requested with the API. But if you were to share this song via text message through the Spotify App all songs have a preview URL. It's not just random...

  • Regular
  • Working with the Spotify Web API I have realized so many songs are missing their preview URL's when requested with the API. But if you were to share this song via text message through the Spotify App...
  • djmtype
  • Gig Goer
  • 2923 Views
  • 4 replies
  • 5 likes
  • API Bug
    API request
    API search
    Spotify Web API
    Web API
  • 2923 Views
  • 4 replies
  • 5 likes

Change aspect of cover image!

Hi, I'm making a web app and I want to know if it is legal to round un the cover image of the music that is currently being played. I want to inform that this app will not be used for any commercial reasons, it will be just a simple project app for m...

  • Regular
  • Hi, I'm making a web app and I want to know if it is legal to round un the cover image of the music that is currently being played.  I want to inform that this app will not be used for any comm...
  • practical_hen
  • Regular
  • 490 Views
  • 4 replies
  • 0 likes
  • api
    design
    Spotify Redesign
    Spotify Web API
  • 490 Views
  • 4 replies
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Solved!! Understanding the usage of the web api

Hi, I want to use the web api from spotify for developers but I want to make sure of some things about it. I read the docs, but I want to be sure that I understood them clearly. If I go with authorization code with PKCE that means I won't need the cl...

  • Regular
  • Hi, I want to use the web api from spotify for developers but I want to make sure of some things about it. I read the docs, but I want to be sure that I understood them clearly.   If I go with...
  • DeEduard
  • Regular
  • 2987 Views
  • 2 replies
  • 0 likes
  • Spotify Web API
    Web API
  • 2987 Views
  • 2 replies
  • 0 likes

Spotify API is frequently down

I've been using Spotify's Web API for my university project for a month. I hadn't experienced any problems with it until a week ago when the API suddenly stopped responding to requests. It was fixed about 12 hours later and functioned well until toda...

  • Visitor
  • I've been using Spotify's Web API for my university project for a month. I hadn't experienced any problems with it until a week ago when the API suddenly stopped responding to requests. It was fixed ...
  • Naianasha
  • Roadie
  • 598 Views
  • 2 replies
  • 0 likes
  • api
    API response
    Spotify Web API
  • 598 Views
  • 2 replies
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Player command failed: Restriction violated

PlanPremiumDeviceAsus Laptop, Brave browserOperating SystemWin 11 My Question or IssueI cant seem to figure out why specific songs will not play via the api. For example I list my liked songs which all play via spotify player, but on my project some ...

  • Newbie
  • Plan Premium Device Asus Laptop, Brave browser Operating System Win 11   My Question or Issue I cant seem to figure out why specific songs will not play via the api. For example I list m...
  • 673 Views
  • 0 replies
  • 2 likes
  • Spotify Web API
  • 673 Views
  • 0 replies
  • 2 likes

Web API results not enough playlists

Hi I'm creating a web application that uses the Spotify API and since a week or two I'm noticing weird behaviour on the api.spotify.com/v1/me/playlists call. The used query is ?limit=50&offset=0 and I'm only getting 49 results the first time I run it...

  • Newbie
  • Hi   I'm creating a web application that uses the Spotify API and since a week or two I'm noticing weird behaviour on the api.spotify.com/v1/me/playlists call.   The used query is ...
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  • 0 replies
  • 1 likes
  • Spotify Web API
  • 248 Views
  • 0 replies
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[Spotify Web API] Can't read private playlists

I'm attempting to create my own project with just the Python requests module, and I'm pretty sure I put the scope thing in the right place... response = requests.post( url='https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token', data={ 'grant_type':'client_credenti...

  • Casual Listener
  • I'm attempting to create my own project with just the Python requests module, and I'm pretty sure I put the scope thing in the right place...   response = requests.post( url='https://a...
  • Ximzend
  • Spotify Star
  • 684 Views
  • 3 replies
  • 0 likes
  • Question
    Spotify Web API
  • 684 Views
  • 3 replies
  • 0 likes