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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...
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 ...
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...
Visitor
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Currently, I am debugging some issues with my token refreshing, and having to wait an hour or more before my code can be tested. A simple fix to this would be to simply add an `expires` field to the `https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token` endpoint, ...
Currently, I am debugging some issues with my token refreshing, and having to wait an hour or more before my code can be tested. A simple fix to this would be to simply add an `expires` field to the ...
Casual Listener
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Hello I created an app in the Spotify developer page and now got a clientId and clientSecretId. afterwards I implemented a search bar where you can search for a song in my flutter mobile app. this is the only case that I use the api in my app the res...
Hello I created an app in the Spotify developer page and now got a clientId and clientSecretId. afterwards I implemented a search bar where you can search for a song in my flutter mobi...
Spotify Star
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Hello, I have developed a voice-controlled application that utilizes the Spotify Web API to allow users to control playback through voice commands. I am interested in understanding the possibilities and requirements for distributing or monetizing thi...
Hello, I have developed a voice-controlled application that utilizes the Spotify Web API to allow users to control playback through voice commands. I am interested in understanding the possi...
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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...
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...
Spotify Star
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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...
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...
Newbie
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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...
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...
Regular
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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...
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...
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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...
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...
Newbie
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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...
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 ...
Spotify
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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...
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....
Casual Listener
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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?...
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. ...
Casual Listener
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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...
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...
Spotify Star
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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...
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...
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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...
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 ...
Music Fan
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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...
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...
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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...
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...
Gig Goer
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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...
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...
Music Fan
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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...
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...
Regular
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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...
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 ...
Roadie
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