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Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by mox1 » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 4:00 PM UTC

gbrhaz wrote: post #5

I had a quick look, but to play a track, all I can see is a 30 second preview. Am I missing something, or can you not get the track data from this API? > EDIT: Should've read the first subtitle... "Our Web API lets your applications fetch data from the Spotify music catalog and manage user’s playlists."

I doubt they are going to let you actually stream music through this, that would be super useful though..

Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by mox1 » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 4:04 PM UTC

Just as an FYI to everyone, Spotify does not allow any "commercialization" of their APi's / Platform. (Learned this the hard way when I released my Spotify app for $.99 on the app store).

https://developer.spotify.com/developer-terms-of-use/

Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by joshvm » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 4:25 PM UTC

Would it kill them to fix some of the bugs in the desktop application first? You can't even sort search results any more. This is apparently marked as a "not now" concern. A lot of premium customers are deeply unsatisfied with the way Spotify handled their latest update.

Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by jerhinesmith » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 4:27 PM UTC

What I'd really love (and have looked for in the past) is a way to automatically push a song over to a specific spotify playlist every time I tag a song on shazam (thinking like an IFTTT recipe). It looks like that might be possible with this new api.

Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by instanttaylor » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 4:48 PM UTC

I was hoping they'd have a Radio API so Sonos and others could make a better all around experience.

Maybe I missed it... or maybe it doesn't exist.

Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by Kiro » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 5:37 PM UTC

Can you access the API without authenticating? I just want some basic song info, not play anything.

Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by thathonkey » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 5:41 PM UTC

Kiro wrote: post #26

Can you access the API without authenticating? I just want some basic song info, not play anything.

You could have spent the 5 minutes on their website that I did to find the endpoint reference which shows that yes, you can get to quite a bit of the API without authenticating:

https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/endpoint-reference/

Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by kingosticks » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 6:03 PM UTC

eli wrote: post #6

Is there an (easy to use) Spotify plugin to let my office-mates vote on or suggest songs to play next? I know there are some hacky solutions, but this new Web API seems like it should make that a lot easier.

You might find this Spotify jukebox project interesting https://github.com/samcreate/Apollo-Player

Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by jeffasinger » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 6:08 PM UTC

jerhinesmith wrote: post #24

What I'd really love (and have looked for in the past) is a way to automatically push a song over to a specific spotify playlist every time I tag a song on shazam (thinking like an IFTTT recipe). It looks like that might be possible with this new api.

Soundhound has a button to search on spotify after finding a song. It's a bunch of clicks, but that's what I do now.

Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by jeffasinger » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 6:09 PM UTC

jeffasinger wrote: post #12

eli wrote: post #6

Is there an (easy to use) Spotify plugin to let my office-mates vote on or suggest songs to play next? I know there are some hacky solutions, but this new Web API seems like it should make that a lot easier.

letsparty.fm is something we made, but it's based on rdio, not spotify, since they have easier API access.

This web API doesn't come close to helping with this problem, as it doesn't allow you to play entire songs, or know when the current song is over.

Realized I didn't make it a link. http://letsparty.fm