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Increasing security requirements for integration with Spotify Web API

Hey all, we’re making some changes to the Spotify Web API. To improve security, we are planning to remove support for two ways of integrating with Spotify that have been replaced with more secure alternatives. Please check the Spotify for Developers ...

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Solved!! [API/Compliance] Enhanced features to a "Add To Streamer's Queue" web app

I'm wanting to create an open source web app for streamers to connect their Spotify to allow viewers to add songs to the streamer's current listening queue. the monetization part is paying to add more than one song per hour or adding it up next.HOWEV...

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  • I'm wanting to create an open source web app for streamers to connect their Spotify to allow viewers to add songs to the streamer's current listening queue. the monetization part is paying to add mor...
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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...

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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 a...
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Understanding PKCE Flow and Rate Limiting

Hi, I'm integrating Spotify into my web application and have some questions about the PKCE flow. Specifically, I'm wondering about its security and purpose.With PKCE, the browser receives both the access and refresh tokens. However, Spotify enforces ...

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  • Hi, I'm integrating Spotify into my web application and have some questions about the PKCE flow. Specifically, I'm wondering about its security and purpose. With PKCE, the browser receives both the ...
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Embedded player requires 3 clicks to play

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceWebOperating SystemLinux My Question or IssueI have an embedded player in my app which (as of a couple months ago?) used to play the track straight away when the Play button was clicked. Now I am noticing that the track loa...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA Device Web Operating System Linux   My Question or Issue I have an embedded player in my app which (as of a couple months ago?) used to play the track straight...
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Solved!! API Options for 30-Second Clips

PlanPremiumCountryPolandOperating SystemWindows My Question or IssueHi,I've been testing the Preview function in the Spotify API for my website, which features audio playback directly on the page. However, I've encountered a few issues:The available ...

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  • Plan Premium Country Poland Operating System Windows   My Question or Issue Hi, I've been testing the Preview function in the Spotify API for my website, which features audio playback...
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Stanford University Collab

Hi - I'm an incoming assistant professor at Stanford School of Medicine working on music and health. I am trying to get in touch with someone from the Spotify leadership team to discuss potential collaboration/access to recently deprecated features o...

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  • Hi - I'm an incoming assistant professor at Stanford School of Medicine working on music and health.  I am trying to get in touch with someone from the Spotify leadership team to discuss potenti...
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Solved!! Embed Track Not Working Anymore

Need help with a song that I embedded on a web page is no longer working and the Spotify app Embed Track for that same song is also giving me an error. Here is a snapshot of the error that is showing up on the web page: And here is a snapshot of the ...

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  • Need help with a song that I embedded on a web page is no longer working and the Spotify app Embed Track for that same song is also giving me an error.   Here is a snapshot of the error that i...
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ERROR 404 GETTING PLAYLIST

PlanFree/PremiumCountry Device(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)Operating System(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.) My Question or Issue Hello, I can access any playlist using the Spotify API's playlist endpoint, but for some rea...

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  • Plan Free/Premium Country   Device (iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016) Operating System (iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)   My Question or Issue   ...
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Android SDK Built-in Auth Flow Not Working

PlanPremiumCountryHungaryDeviceSamsung Galaxy S22 My Question or IssueI am making a simple Android app relying on the Spotify SDK. I tried to make the sample app work from here: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/android/tutorials/getting-st...

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  • Plan Premium Country Hungary Device Samsung Galaxy S22   My Question or Issue I am making a simple Android app relying on the Spotify SDK. I tried to make the sample app work from here:&...
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Order Music by Gender on Like or Music List

PlanFreeCountryEcuadorDeviceXiaomi Redmi Note 9sOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueThere is feature, that I'm pretty sure, there are a lot of people looking for.I talking about to have a button o something to order music list by a specifi...

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  • Plan Free Country Ecuador Device Xiaomi Redmi Note 9s Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue There is feature, that I'm pretty sure, there are a lot of people looking for. ...
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Is extended quota mode strictly tight to one domain ?

So, can website b access the api with extended quota mode using website a extended quota mode credentials ?Use case : i want to change my website domain name, and i'd rather not go through another round of extension request.Asking for a friend.Thanks

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  • So, can website b access the api with extended quota mode using website a extended quota mode credentials ? Use case : i want to change my website domain name, and i'd rather not go through anothe...
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Remove “Hand-picked releases” filter & show all releases

Being a premium user I should be able to view all music releases. For a while now this has been switched to hand-picked releases that restricts what releases are available. PlanPremiumCountryAustralia DeviceMobile AppOperating SystemiOS , Android

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  • Being a premium user I should be able to view all music releases. For a while now this has been switched to hand-picked releases that restricts what releases are available.  Plan Premium Cou...
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Fetching the "daylist" title and info

PlanPremiumCountryUSADeviceZephyrus G14Operating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueThe "daylist" is one of my friend group's favorite things and we like sharing our titles and some of the tracks with each other, but sometimes when I access the pla...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA Device Zephyrus G14 Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue The "daylist" is one of my friend group's favorite things and we like sharing our titles...
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Bug with an API Recently Played Tracks

According description, the method "Get Current User's Recently Played Tracks" must return the most recent 50 tracks that played more than 30 seconds. In practice, play history isn't updated with any tracks 35-40-50... seconds. Only tracks that are al...

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  • According description, the method "Get Current User's Recently Played Tracks" must return the most recent 50 tracks that played more than 30 seconds.   In practice, play history isn't updated ...
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IOS SDK Auto play on AUTH

"We're experiencing issues with autoplay in our iOS app using the Spotify iOS SDK. Despite setting configuration.playURI = "" in our SPTConfiguration setup, tracks still auto-play when initialized. Here's our current implementation:1. We set playURI ...

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  • "We're experiencing issues with autoplay in our iOS app using the Spotify iOS SDK. Despite setting configuration.playURI = "" in our SPTConfiguration setup, tracks still auto-play when initialized. H...
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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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Seeking guidance on Web Playback SDK implementation for D&D campaign management app

PlanPremiumCountryUSA / AnyDeviceDesktop / Web AppOperating SystemAny My Question or IssueHi everyone!I'm developing a Tabletop / Dungeons & Dragons campaign management application and seeking some clarification regarding commercial usage of the Web ...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA / Any Device Desktop / Web App Operating System Any   My Question or Issue Hi everyone! I'm developing a Tabletop / Dungeons & Dragons campaign manageme...
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Spotify API Add To Queue Endpoint response faulty

The response from the Add To Queue endpoint doesn't return as expected. This is again a problem for strongly typed applications. When I test it using the API Reference the website even states "something went wrong" Making a POST request to the endpoi...

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  • The response from the Add To Queue endpoint doesn't return as expected. This is again a problem for strongly typed applications.  When I test it using the API Reference the website even state...
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Sort songs in a playlist in api response

Endpoint:https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists//tracks Would it be possible to retrieve the songs in a playlist in a specific order? I'm particularly interested in sorting by the addedAt field. Thank you.

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  • Endpoint: https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/<playlistId>/tracks   Would it be possible to retrieve the songs in a playlist in a specific order? I'm particularly interested in sorting...
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GetPlaybackState VS GetCurrentlyPlayingTrack

What is the difference between the 2 Web API calls?The JSON response is exactly the same In which case should I use GetPlaybackState or GetCurrentlyPlayingTrack? Web API Reference | https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-th...

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  • What is the difference between the 2 Web API calls? The JSON response is exactly the same  In which case should I use GetPlaybackState or GetCurrentlyPlayingTrack?   Web API R...
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