Is there anyway, using the Spotify API, to rank user playlists by how many followers they have or some other criteria? As opposed to having to search for a certain user first
If you mean "Find the user-created playlist with the most followers, out of every user playlist on Spotify," the answer is "No, there is no way to do that with the Spotify API."
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When Siri is asked "play music by ARTIST_NAME on Spotify" she starts playing music from a playlist that is generated by Spotify, with no displayed name, and the description "ARTIST_NAME songs picked just for you". I cannot find a way to find this playlist. Its name, according to the https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player endpoint, is ARTIST_NAME, and its owner is Spotify. How can I find this playlist for a given artist using the Web API?
Ultimately, I am trying to work around the fact that if there is no available device (i.e. Spotify is idle or closed) an artist cannot be played by setting a context-uri in the https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/play endpoint. To work around this issue in the case of playing a playlist that the user of my program searches for, I have simply opened the URL of the first track in the album or playlist. This doesn't work in the case of artists, since the list of top tracks by an artists gives the tracks' URLs in the context of the respective tracks's album.
If there is no way to access this Siri exclusive playlist, I would appreciate feedback suggesting alternate routes. It is not sufficient to simply create a playlist, since they would be static and have to be recreated for each request.
Thank you.
I wanted to get the playlist that the user is following in the spotify api but could not seem to find the way. Can you tell me how to do this ? Thank You
At the moment with the Spotify Web API, you can only request all the Playlists that a User is Following and the Playlists created by the Current User with Get a List of Current User's Playlists.
However you can see what the Owner of a Playlist is so you could use Get Current User's Profile to get the profile for the Current User. Then get all the Playlists with Get a List of Current User's Playlists and see which ones have a different Owner than the Current User, this is the only currently supported way of determining which Playlists a User is Following.
I am designing a music web app.
In that, I want to display the trending songs
Are there any criteria to display the trending songs as Spotify or Gaana does?
Are you using the Spotify Web API? What language are your coding in? You should add more info/code samples so people aren't guessing.
There isn't an API endpoint to specifically 'get the top tracks on Spotify'.
But...you could use the ID of their Top 50 playlist and pull in the tracks from that: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZEVXbMDoHDwVN2tF
The Id is 37i9dQZEVXbMDoHDwVN2tF so,
GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/37i9dQZEVXbMDoHDwVN2tF
source: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/playlists/get-playlist/
I am developing an app that tracks the users day and id like to tell the user how many hours he/she spends on Instagram and how many pictures has he / she liked on her profile? Is this possible to get from the Instagram API?
You can use this API:
https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/self/media/liked?access_token=ACCESS-TOKEN
This will return list of media liked by a user, you can keep track of media_id's and count how many liked every day, going forward.
Not sure how you plan to get data of how many hours spent on Instagram, there is no API
I am trying to generate a playlist from two users different playlists. I know you can get a public playlist from a Spotify users id, hopefully their most played,but i am not sure if you can combine it with another user's playlist?
Sure. First read both of the users Spotify playlists. You'll have to use the iTunes Search API to find the respective track on iTunes and it's product ID. You can then use the music API's added in 9.3+ to make a playlist and add the product ID's for the songs in the two playlists.