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Important: App review and quota extension waiting times

The Spotify for developers platform helps many bring their ideas to life. Whether it's a short term app helping an artist’s release or something more long term - there is always a chance of success. Things start to grow and then you might also need w...

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Alexa App-to-App account linking

@anyone could you please solve me to acheive the app to app account linking through brower flow.

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  • @anyone could you please solve me to acheive the app to app account linking through brower flow.
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A song start to play without my command

PlanPremiumCountryBrasilDeviceSamsung Galaxy S21 FE, Asus VivoBook 15)Operating System(Android Oreo and Windows 10) My Question or IssueIn my Spotify account, both on my cellphone and my PC, a song called "Like That - Future" starts playing repeatedl...

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  • Plan Premium Country Brasil Device Samsung Galaxy S21 FE, Asus VivoBook 15) Operating System (Android Oreo and Windows 10)   My Question or Issue In my Spotify account, both on my...
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The repeat-one/loop button

My Question or Issue:Hello, I'm a regular Spotify user and there's something I've noticed with the loop/repeat-one button which I'd like to bring up. When the button for looping a song shows a small 1 (meaning repeat-one is enabled), it plays the mus...

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  • My Question or Issue: Hello, I'm a regular Spotify user and there's something I've noticed with the loop/repeat-one button which I'd like to bring up.   When the button for looping a song sho...
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Websites/Apps using stats from API are inaccurate

PlanStudentCountryUSDeviceiPhone 12Operating SystemiOS My Question or IssueThis is something I’ve been noticing within the past couple of days from the user end, along with all of the dozen other spotify and third-party website users that I’ve asked....

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  • Plan Student Country US Device iPhone 12 Operating System iOS   My Question or Issue This is something I’ve been noticing within the past couple of days from the user end, along with a...
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Solved!! Need help retrieving my Spotify API tokens

PlanFreeCountry Device Operating SystemLinux My Question or IssueI received a Client ID and Secret numbers but they would not authorize. I never received my access token and refresh token. I went to the help chat and they directed me here for assista...

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  • Plan Free Country   Device   Operating System Linux   My Question or Issue I received a Client ID and Secret numbers but they would not authorize.  I never received my a...
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Web API Endpoint for Audiobook Listening Time Remaining

PlanPremiumCountryUSDeviceWeb APIMy Question or IssueIs there an available api endpoint that will return the listening time remaining and days to reset for the 15 hour audiobook monthly limit? Currently it is only available through a rather cumbersom...

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  • Plan Premium Country US Device Web API My Question or Issue Is there an available api endpoint that will return the listening time remaining and days to reset for the 15 hour audiobook monthly...
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Embedded player won't autoplay track

PlanPremiumCountryAustraliaDeviceLaptopOperating SystemWindows 10 My Question or IssueI am trying to control the embed player from within my app but it won't autoplay songs. Here is my javascript.. the uri of the song is being loaded correctly, the e...

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  • Plan Premium Country Australia Device Laptop Operating System Windows 10   My Question or Issue I am trying to control the embed player from within my app but it won't autoplay songs.&...
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Trim Feature

As a daily Spotify user who enjoys exploring a wide range of music genres, I have identified an opportunity for an additional feature that I believe could significantly enhance the user experience. This feature, which I call the 'Trim Feature', could...

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  • As a daily Spotify user who enjoys exploring a wide range of music genres, I have identified an opportunity for an additional feature that I believe could significantly enhance the user experience. T...
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Join if willing to test my web app build on Spotify API

Hey folks!I've developed a web app and need a few fellow Spotify community members to test it out!As you know, to give you access I'll only need to put your email in the list of allowed users. So if you're curious about the project and willing to con...

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  •   Hey folks! I've developed a web app and need a few fellow Spotify community members to test it out! As you know, to give you access I'll only need to put your email in the list of allowed u...
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previews for lots of songs returning null

I am using the api to grab songs previews and play them. This is working perfect for some songs however a large portion of songs return null preview urls (even though i know they have one as one plays when using spotify mobile without premium). I hav...

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  • I am using the api to grab songs previews and play them. This is working perfect for some songs however a large portion of songs return null preview urls (even though i know they have one as one play...
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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...

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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...
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Playing only preview mode

Hi , when I embed an artist to website it is only playing in preview short mode how can I be able to listen full musics through embedded one ? Thank you for the answers in advance !

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  • Hi , when I embed an artist to website it is only playing in preview short mode how can I be able to listen full musics through embedded one ? Thank you for the answers in advance !  
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Spotify embed player only shows 30 second preview on LinkedIn articles

PlanFreeCountryUKDeviceMacbook Pro M1Operating SystemiOS My Question or IssueI have used the embed option for a podcast episode within a LinkedIn article. However, it only shows a 30 second preview in Chrome. On Safari it shows the full episode.Howev...

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  • Plan Free Country UK Device Macbook Pro M1 Operating System iOS   My Question or Issue I have used the embed option for a podcast episode within a LinkedIn article. However, it only sh...
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Error 401 unauthorized on /me request but not /search request Python

PlanPremiumCountryUnited KingdomOperating System(Windows 11)IDEPycharm My Question or IssueI've tried searching through the topics to find the solution and while there do appear to be solutions relating to my issue, they are either not using Python s...

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  • Plan Premium Country United Kingdom Operating System (Windows 11) IDE Pycharm   My Question or Issue I've tried searching through the topics to find the solution and while there do app...
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Superuser Contribution Comercial use of web api and or web sdk or embedded player

Hi there I am attempting to make a web application that is a guess the song game. Is there any way i could use the spotify api and web sdk or embedd the playlists to supply the small snippets of music to play somthing like 20-30 seconds of songs for ...

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  • Hi there I am attempting to make a web application that is a guess the song game. Is there any way i could use the spotify api and web sdk or embedd the playlists to supply the small snippets of musi...
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Now that users can view their recently played tracks in the apps...

Can we list more than 50 of the most recently played tracks of users from our systems, in the API https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#endpoint-get-recently-played ? Currently, it allows us to fetch only the 50 most recent t...

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  • Can we list more than 50 of the most recently played tracks of users from our systems, in the API https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#endpoint-get-recently-played&nbsp...
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Blank Login Screen using AuthenticationClient

PlanPremiumCountryUSA DevicePixel 3a Virtual Device (API 28)Operating SystemAndroid 9.0 Pie My Question or IssueI'm using the AuthenticationRequest and AuthenticationClient to connect a Spotify account to my app. After testing a few times with instal...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA   Device Pixel 3a Virtual Device (API 28) Operating System Android 9.0 Pie   My Question or Issue I'm using the AuthenticationRequest and AuthenticationC...
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Superuser Contribution API: Number of Streams for a Track

DeviceAPI My Question or IssueI do not see any API commands to retrieve a track's total number of streams. BUT I am finding other third-party APIs and websites that can deliver number of streams. How are they doing this, if not the API?

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  • Device API   My Question or Issue I do not see any API commands to retrieve a track's total number of streams. BUT I am finding other third-party APIs and websites that can deliver number of...
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Superuser Contribution Get User Queue Doesn't Return Full Queue

Working on developing an application, and I have to use this endpoint: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-queue I need to obtain the full user queue, but what this endpoint returns is only the first 20 song...

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  • Working on developing an application, and I have to use this endpoint:   https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#/operations/get-queue   I need to obtain the full...
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