Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by Fogh » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 12:09 PM UTC

Say Hello to Our New Web API
news.spotify.com

Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by andyhmltn » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 12:55 PM UTC

Brilliant! I've been wanting to access my own playlists through an API for a while to back them up

Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by x3ro » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 1:01 PM UTC

It doesn't seem possible to delete a playlist or remove tracks from one :( Other than that it's pretty great, maybe I can automate my playlist management now :)

Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by joshstrange » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 1:04 PM UTC

> With a user’s permission, developers can now access user profile information including playlists,

This is awesome news! The last time I tried to write something for Spotify to front-load my last.fm (I know I'm late to the game) account but couldn't get access to the playlists. Going to have to check this out when I get some time.

Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by gbrhaz » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 1:06 PM UTC

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."

Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by eli » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 1:07 PM UTC

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.

Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by thejosh » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 1:10 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.

This would be freaking awesome, right now we just use a playlist.

Having an office jukebox powered by Spotify would be awesome, and a great usecase. "VoteSpotify" or something :).

Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by akx » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 1:11 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.

We've been using the Soundrop app inside Spotify with a shared room for that. http://soundrop.fm/

Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by houli » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 1:14 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.

http://soundrop.fm or http://spartify.com

Re: Say Hello to Our New Web API

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Post by imdsm » Tue, Jun 17, 2014, 1:22 PM UTC

Insane. I was speaking about Spotify API about an hour ago on IRC, Google'd around, found this, disregarded it (how new can it be?) and now it's at the top of HN.

This keeps happening to me, with docker release, with deis, with vagrant, so many things I talk about and then I look at hn and they're there, just waiting for me.

This happens so often, we all say here to check HN after we discuss something, because there will no doubt be a link ready for us. Starting to wonder if this is actually just a news feed where you see what you need to see.