Web API: Get Track's Audio Features: 403 error

[ne_lea]

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 a 403 error?

Is there an alternative way to access information about audio features?

Thank you for your assistance!

[Ximzend]

This endpoint is returning 403 because it is deprecated. Only apps that had a (pending) quota extension before November 27, 2024 can still use it. You can read more about it at this news article.

[ne_lea]

@Ximzend thanks for your answer!

The article mentions security reasons—do you know if there will be an alternative endpoint to access the audio feature information? Or do you know of any other API that could provide this information? I found a webpage built on top of the Spotify API where I could extract the BPM number and keys, but it feels a bit hacky to scrape a webpage for that info. I would prefer to work directly with an API...

If you know something or an alternative that would be great!

[downcaster]

Hello, I'm trying to use the Track Audio Analysis endpoint "https://api.spotify.com/v1/audio-analysis/{TRACK_ID}" but it always returns 403 code with response data: "{"error":{"status":403}}".

I used the Client Credentials flow to authenticate my application (I guess this auth method is enough since I'm not trying to retrieve user-related data).

I tested the same credentials with other endpoints like "https://api.spotify.com/v1/search" and it works flawlessly.

Can anybody help me?

Plan

Free

Country

IT

Device

local machine ATM (server-to-server connection)

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My Question or Issue

[Ximzend]

I'm going to move every new 403 error here.

And I don't know any service that offers the same features.

[Darius-IX]

Hi ne_lea,

I am working on the same thing, I only need the BPM though. Did you find a suitable solution? Would you help me out? Good ideas, how to get in contact? And to Spotify: is there any plan, to bring these features back? At least some of them? Your API was very powerful, it is very sad you decided to shut it down like that.

Kind regards!