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Updating the Criteria for Web API Extended Access

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...

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Superuser Contribution How to get full track object

My Question or IssueBecause of the recent API changes and the lack of preview_url fields in SimpleTrack Objects I was wondering how to get a full track objectThe way the API changes were phrased it made it seem like it would only affect multi-get req...

  • Casual Listener
  • My Question or Issue Because of the recent API changes and the lack of preview_url fields in SimpleTrack Objects I was wondering how to get a full track object The way the API changes were phrase...
  • LambertSpot
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Extension on endpoint "Get Playlist" for Spotify owned ones

Hi The recent changes to the API, point 8:Introducing some changes to our Web API | Spotify for Developers Has somewhat broken my app. I was working on a free Editorial Watcher, for artists. So they can keep track of editorial placements across platf...

  • Gig Goer
  • Hi 😁 The recent changes to the API, point 8: Introducing some changes to our Web API | Spotify for Developers   Has somewhat broken my app.  I was working on a free Editorial Watche...
  • gonsodany
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Solved!! Get Available Genre Seeds

why is the GET /recommendations/available-genre-seeds endpoint deprecated?and is there any alternative to get a list of all available genres on Spotify?

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  • why is the  GET /recommendations/available-genre-seeds endpoint deprecated? and is there any alternative to get a list of all available genres on Spotify?
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User may not be registered error

PlanPremiumCountryUSA My Question or IssueI get this error when I try running my app Check settings on developer.spotify.com/dashboard, the user may not be registered.It works perfectly for my account, but not my alt that I'm testing with.I'm in dev ...

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  • Plan Premium Country USA     My Question or Issue I get this error when I try running my app  Check settings on developer.spotify.com/dashboard, the user may not be registe...
  • Ximzend
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Infinite rate limit

PlanPremiumCountryBrazilDevicePCOperating SystemWindows 11 My Question or IssueI have a personal project that uses spotipy to get the img link from a song and colorthief to get its dominant color. It makes a call for the current_user_playing_track on...

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  • Plan Premium Country Brazil Device PC Operating System Windows 11   My Question or Issue I have a personal project that uses spotipy to get the img link from a song and colorthief ...
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Solved!! Authentication error: Invalid token scopes.

HiI try to playback songs in my own app using Web Playback SDK.In the OAuth callback response I got this:credentials = {AuthorizationCodeCredentials@9873} "AuthorizationCodeCredentials(accessToken=BQBfqJ8***wnZUKg, tokenType=Bearer, scope=playlist-re...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hi I try to playback songs in my own app using Web Playback SDK. In the OAuth callback response I got this: credentials = {AuthorizationCodeCredentials@9873} "AuthorizationCodeCredentials(a...
  • stefangehrig
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Only showing preview

I'm messing with the embed feature and putting it in a basic HTML file, and it's only playing the preview with the option to play it on Spotify. I haven't modified the code at all. Is there a way to play the full song or is embedded restricted to the...

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  • I'm messing with the embed feature and putting it in a basic HTML file, and it's only playing the preview with the option to play it on Spotify. I haven't modified the code at all. Is there a way to ...
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Not Understanding the Reason for the Rejection of the Quota Extension Request

Hello,Our application, which we have been developing, has been fully ready for nearly 4 months, and we have been waiting for Spotify's approval of the quota extension request. However, this is the second rejection we have received. First of all, we w...

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  • Hello, Our application, which we have been developing, has been fully ready for nearly 4 months, and we have been waiting for Spotify's approval of the quota extension request. However, this is the ...
  • Ximzend
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Superuser Contribution /playlists API Endpoint Issue Fixed

We wanted to provide an update regarding issues identified in the “/playlists” API endpoints. We have investigated the reported concerns of null results appearing in responses and have fixed the behaviour in the “/me/playlists” and “/users/{user_id}/...

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  • We wanted to provide an update regarding issues identified in the “/playlists” API endpoints. We have investigated the reported concerns of null results appearing in responses and have fixed the beha...
  • AdrienCompDev
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"Illegal Scope" on my application after quota extension

After receiving a quota extension, I keep getting Illegal Scope when logging into my application, and everything is spelled correctly and all. I know it is because of the Scope Extension being separate, so I just sent that in 2 months after my quota ...

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  • After receiving a quota extension, I keep getting Illegal Scope when logging into my application, and everything is spelled correctly and all. I know it is because of the Scope Extension being separa...
  • rekkyrosso
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Recent api changes

Hey Spotify Developer Community and Spotify Team,I'm berkay, and for the past three months, I've been developing a mobile app. My goal was to create a simple, customized song recommendation app to help users discover new music based on their favorite...

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  • Hey Spotify Developer Community and Spotify Team, I'm berkay, and for the past three months, I've been developing a mobile app. My goal was to create a simple, customized song recommendation ap...
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My project is paused. How can I restore it?

안녕하세요,현재 스포티파이 디벨로퍼에서 "Rhythm" 프로젝트를 운영하고 있는 사용자입니다. 최근 프리미엄 계정을 취소하고 다시 결제한 후, 프로젝트가 일시 중지된 상태입니다. 프로젝트 대시보드에 "The project 'Rhythm' is currently paused. All of your project's data is still intact, but your project is inaccessible while paused. Resto...

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  • 안녕하세요, 현재 스포티파이 디벨로퍼에서 "Rhythm" 프로젝트를 운영하고 있는 사용자입니다. 최근 프리미엄 계정을 취소하고 다시 결제한 후, 프로젝트가 일시 중지된 상태입니다. 프로젝트 대시보드에 "The project 'Rhythm' is currently paused. All of your project's data is still intact,...
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Solved!! "Get Recently Played Tracks" returns different version of the song I actually played

I have a playlist that I adjust regularly to remove songs that I already listened to recently (using the "Get Recently Played Tracks" API).The playlist contains this song https://open.spotify.com/track/26QxDu518aR3rkHucaqwzM which never gets removed....

  • Casual Listener
  • I have a playlist that I adjust regularly to remove songs that I already listened to recently (using the "Get Recently Played Tracks" API). The playlist contains this song https://open.spotify.com/t...
  • EchoExplorer
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Please help - OAuth in React-Native not working

Hi there, I'm currently a student working on a side project utilizing Spotify's api through spotify-api-web-node. I've pretty much been following this tutorial exactly (https://medium.com/javascript-in-plain-english/react-native-full-authentication-f...

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  • Hi there, I'm currently a student working on a side project utilizing Spotify's api through spotify-api-web-node. I've pretty much been following this tutorial exactly (https://medium.com/javascript-...
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Proposition for better performance of application

Hi, My name is Kamran Abbaszade, software engineer with over 7 years of experience and data scientist with close to 3 years of experience in Audio AI. I was working on new approach for better music genre classification and I developed an outstanding ...

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  • Hi,   My name is Kamran Abbaszade, software engineer with over 7 years of experience and data scientist with close to 3 years of experience in Audio AI.   I was working on new approach ...
  • BoyCott
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Query for Top 500 artists from a specific country

Hi, I was thinking if it's possible to query top 500 artists in Poland. I'm trying to see who the most listened artists are within one country. Anyone knows if it's possible?

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  • Hi, I was thinking if it's possible to query top 500 artists in Poland. I'm trying to see who the most listened artists are within one country.   Anyone knows if it's possible?
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Background Login in SKD API

Hello, is there no way to use the SDK API with my own API Client ID and Secret - without redirect to the Login Page?I want to play full Spotify Songs (start/pause/stop/restart) in my webpage with my Spotify account - the Website user should need no l...

  • Casual Listener
  • Hello,   is there no way to use the SDK API with my own API Client ID and Secret - without redirect to the Login Page? I want to play full Spotify Songs (start/pause/stop/restart) in my web...
  • Ximzend
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Copy/Create Playlist from existing Playlist URL

I have a list of Spotify playlists in URL format. Such as: https://open.spotify.com/user/xxxxx/playlist/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx They are playlists that other users have created. I would like to create my own playlist from each one, so that I can modify the co...

  • Casual Listener
  • I have a list of Spotify playlists in URL format. Such as:   https://open.spotify.com/user/xxxxx/playlist/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx    They are playlists that other users have created. I woul...
  • Ximzend
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Endpoint "Transfer Playback" returns 500 error when all devices is not active

PlanPremium CountryUS DeviceiPhone + Android Tablet My Question or Issue First, I called endpoint https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/devices to get deviceId. All devices were inactive (for example, deviceId = XX and deviceId = YY).Then I called the...

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  • Plan Premium   Country US   Device iPhone + Android Tablet   My Question or Issue   First, I called endpoint https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/devices to g...
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Why there is no field 'languages' to determine languages which are used in each song?

Hello everyone. I want to create an app for Ukrainians that will parse Spotify tracks with language only 'ua' or something like that, but there is no link between the song and language. Why don't you add a 'languages' field in every song object to al...

  • Casual Listener
  •   Hello everyone. I want to create an app for Ukrainians that will parse Spotify tracks with language only 'ua' or something like that, but there is no link between the song and language. Why d...
  • Repuls
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