Web SDK Invalid Scope

[jackdev]

Plan

Premium Student

Country

United Kingdom

Device

Desktop

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

Hi all, I am trying to follow the Web SDK guide https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-playback-sdk/tutorials/getting-started

However I am running into an issue where I get the following console errors:

• GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/melody/v1/check_scope?scope=web-playback 403
• Invalid token scopes
• PUT https://cpapi.spotify.com/v1/client/not-sure-if-this-is-sensitive
• This functionality is restricted to premium users only

I am a premium user, and I am using the following scopes:

"user-read-private",
"user-read-email"
"user-top-read"
"streaming"
"user-modify-playback-state"
"app-remote-control"

I've tried to add the scope that it seems to be trying to call "web-playback", but then get an illegal scope error. When using the authentication token provided on the actual tutorial page, the app seems to work, it's just when I generate the token myself. The only difference I can see between my scopes and the one the tutorial uses is "openid", however this also returns an illegal scope when I use it.

Has anyone also encountered this error? I'm programming using Python Flask, and making a manual requests call to get the authentication token. Below is how I am authenticating

@auth_blueprint.route('/auth/login')
def login():
    sp_oauth = spotipy.oauth2.SpotifyOAuth(
        client_id=SpotifyCreds.CLIENT_ID,
        client_secret=SpotifyCreds.CLIENT_SECRET,
        redirect_uri=config.HOSTNAME + url_for("auth_blueprint.callback"),
        scope=",".join(SpotifyCreds.SCOPES)
    )
    auth_url = sp_oauth.get_authorize_url()
    return redirect(auth_url)


@auth_blueprint.route('/auth/callback')
def callback():
    authorization_code = request.args.get('code')

    if auth_service.callback(authorization_code):
        return redirect(url_for("main_blueprint.home"))
    else:
        return redirect(url_for("auth_blueprint.login"))

Many thanks for anyone that's taken a look into this!

[jackdev]

Please ignore this, I figured out how to edit the original post after confirming my email 🙂

[Ximzend]

Okay. Did you also find this issue ont GitHub: https://github.com/spotify/web-playback-sdk/issues/11

[jackdev]

Hi, thanks for replying. I did read that and used the new scopes listed in the latest comment, however unfortunately still no luck.

[SpotifyTom]

Are you using a user with a premium account, or a user with a free account?  The error you've provided indicates perhaps that it's a user with a free account?  

[jackdev]

Hi, I'm using a paid Spotify student account, so I feel like the error is just a default one after the invalid token scopes error.

[SpotifyTom]

Oh - your scopes are supposed to be space delimited not comma delimited.  Try  " ".join(SpotifyCreds.SCOPES) 

[temlabs]

Did you ever get this fixed? I'm currently having the same issue and it's driving me nuts

[kyds3k]

Same, I cannot get this to work . . . ! It's crazy annoying.