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Maintenance: My Applications
August 29th, 2017 by Arielle Vaniderstine
Latest News for Spotify Devs
New Endpoint: Custom Playlist Cover Image
July 26th, 2017 by Arielle Vaniderstine
Today we’re proud to launch a new Web API endpoint: Upload a Custom Playlist Cover Image. With the playlist owner’s permission, you can now replace the image used to represent a playlist. Full documentation including restrictions, which scopes are necessary, and how to authenticate can be found here.
In addition, we have added support for modifying playlist descriptions through the Change Playlist Details endpoint. The documentation has been updated here.
This has been a regular request on our community issue tracker, and we are excited to see what you build with it.
Spotify Play Button <3 Social Media
July 19th, 2017 by Milena Araujo
When browsing around the internet, it would not be a surprise to find a beautiful Spotify Play Button laying around, showing amazing content curated by our various partners.
Change in host for Spotify Play Button and Follow Button
May 22nd, 2017 by José M. Pérez
We have recently changed the URL on which our widgets are served, from embed.spotify.com to open.spotify.com. You don’t need to worry about this, since your widgets will continue working as expected.
Spotify Play Button
Old: https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:user:spotify:playlist:3rgsDhGHZxZ9sB9DQWQfuf
New: https://open.spotify.com/embed?uri=spotify:user:spotify:playlist:3rgsDhGHZxZ9sB9DQWQfuf
Spotify Follow Button
Old: https://embed.spotify.com/follow/1/?uri=spotify:artist:1vCWHaC5f2uS3yhpwWbIA6&size=detail&theme=ligh
New: https://open.spotify.com/follow/1?uri=spotify:artist:1vCWHaC5f2uS3yhpwWbIA6&size=detail&theme=light
The documentation pages for the Spotify Play Button and Follow Button have been updated to reflect this change.
Deprecation of Tracksets in Spotify Play Button
May 22nd, 2017 by José M. Pérez
We are removing the functionality to embed tracksets using the Spotify Play Button on July 15th 2017.
The Spotify Play Button allows for embedding tracks, albums, artists and playlists. It can also embed a list of tracks passed as a parameter, which was useful to create a dynamic playlist. These lists of tracks are not supported in the Spotify clients, which default to showing a view for a single track, instead of the list.
We recommend that you use Spotify Play Buttons for playlists instead. With the Web API you can create playlists dynamically and get the benefits of being fully integrated with all Spotify clients. This means users will be able to search for your playlists and subscribe to them.
If you have any questions or need support, feel free to contact us on @SpotifyPlatform.
Maintenance: My Applications
April 19th, 2017 by Arielle Vaniderstine
The My Applications page on developer.spotify.com will be unavailable for maintenance on April 20th between 08:00 and 10:00 UTC. We apologise for any inconvenience.
New Endpoints (Beta): Web API Connect
April 10th, 2017 by Hugh Rawlinson
Today we’re delighted to announce the beta release of Web API Connect – a set of API endpoints for interfacing with Spotify Connect. The endpoints provide control to (with the permission of the user)
and more.
A full list of all the new endpoints can be found in our Web API Connect reference.
Please note that while we’re very excited to release these endpoints, they are in a beta state. This means that while we encourage you to build with them, a situation may arise where we need to disable some or all of the functionality and/or change how they work without prior notice.
As always, please report any issues via our GitHub issue tracker. Happy hacking!
New Endpoint: Recently Played Tracks
March 1st, 2017 by Hugh Rawlinson
Today we’re proud to launch a new Web API endpoint: Get a User’s Recently Played Tracks. With the user’s permission, you can now retrieve up to 50 of their most recently played tracks (excluding tracks played during a private session) as well as whether it was part of an album, playlist or artist listening context. Full documentation including restrictions, which scopes are necessary, and how to authenticate can be found here.
It has been a regular request on our community issue tracker, and we are excited to see what you build with it. Happy Hacking!
Removing Unauthenticated calls to the Web API
January 27th, 2017 by Hugh Rawlinson
On 29th May 2017 the /search /tracks /albums /artists and /users (and related) endpoints will start requiring an access token, bringing them in-line with all other Web API endpoints. A detailed overview of the changes can be found here.
Back in 2014 when we launched the current version of the Spotify Web APIs, we introduced new functionality and replaced two old web services: search and lookup.
As the old web services didn’t support OAuth, we wanted to ease the initial transition for users by allowing unauthenticated consumption of the equivalent endpoints in the new API. Now we’re in 2017, Spotify’s Web API has greatly expanded and a vast majority of endpoints already require authentication. By authenticating you also gain improved rate limits and get access to our automated insights dashboards, which provide statistics on your API consumption and users who authenticate with your application.
The affected endpoints will accept all forms of authentication, including client credentials. As before all endpoints can be tried out live before writing any code via our interactive API console.
We understand that this update may create some work for you, so we want to ensure you have plenty of time to make the necessary updates to any outstanding unauthenticated requests. We’ve also created a guide to the technical changes you may need to make.
Because the calls are unauthenticated we aren’t able to reach out to individuals. If you need help please do contact us via Twitter, GitHub or StackOverflow (tag Spotify).
Statistics and Insights for your Web API apps
September 26th, 2016 by José M. Pérez
Part of maintaining a large scale API is ensuring we are able to properly monitor how our product is consumed both globally, and on a per-app basis. Over time this information has proven invaluable when working with partners to optimise their experiences, and we’ve spent some time creating internal tooling to visualise that data for fast and easy insights.
We have just launched a new feature in the “My Applications” section of the Developer Site giving everyone those same insights into how your application is consuming the Spotify Web API, how engaged your users are, and where in the world they are located.
To view your insights, navigate to your app in the My Applications” section and click on the new “Statistics” section. We look forward to your feedback – tweet us at @SpotifyPlatform.