I want to write a little Deezer to Spotify switcher, which transfers my artists and albums to my Spotify account. How can I follow an artist and add an album to my music library using one of Spotify's SDK (Libspotify, Web-API or Android SDK)?
This sounds like an awesome feature! (As long as it's not the other way around ;-)
Following and unfollowing artists and users isn't possible just yet, but please stay tuned for updates. You can either follow #SpotifyPlatform on Twitter or follow the Web API Change log. I can also update this answer once this feature is available.
Update: Following artists or users is possible to do using the Follow Artists or Users endpoint in the Web API. It was released in December, 2014.
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Recently Apple Music launched a new feature that notifies the user about new releases. I'm trying to find a way of receiving this notifications from the API, or somehow listen to a set of artists in case of new releases.
If you know any work around or a similar solution using Spotify's API or any other music platform, I'd be grateful.
For Spotify at least you can use the Get a List of New Releases from the Spotify API to request the latest releases, each of the Album Objects returned would contain the Artist Object for those, there's plenty of ways depending on your programming language of choice to get this information and to Authenticate so you can look for those for Javascript, C#, Python etc and see if they will help do what you need.
Does anyone know, do I need any kind of addition rights (or license agreements) for implementing custom Unity wrapper for Spotify SDK? On its own, the Spotify Unity wrapper will not include any Spotify libs (no Android nor iOS). Each developer will be prompted to download appropriate SDK from the official Spotify website and import into Unity project manually.
I am considering the possibility of selling the custom Unity wrapper for Spotify SDK on the market (Unity Asset Store etc.). I will NOT sell any Spotify resources/libs, just my custom implementation of Unity wrapper for Spotify. But anyway, I need the information about the possible required granted permissions from the Spotify itself.
If you have any kind of useful information according to this case, please, share with me. Thank you!
I can't give any specific legal advice, I'd suggest you approach a legal expert - but it's worth checking out Spotify's Developer Terms of Service, specifically noting the excerpt "Unless you receive Spotify’s written approval, you shall not use the Spotify Platform to incorporate Spotify Content into any game functionality".
We would like to use the Instagram API to harvest comments from a Brand page into a CRM Solution.
From this CRM Solution, agents will consult and possibly reply to Instagram Posts.
I think the most appropriate use case for what we plan to do is this one:
"My product helps brands and advertisers understand, manage their audience and media rights"
Here my question:
During the submission review, we need to join a Video Screencast of our project.
This part is really annoying for us as:
We don't want to share on a public platform (like youtube) the details of our project and CRM solution
Is there any workaround to this ?
You don't need to "join" video screencast, you need to submit a video of product functionality (use quicktime screen record), upload the video on google drive and share the link, only instagram will be seeing it, only the people u send link will be able to get to the video, it will not be public when sharing from Google Drive, there are varrious settings while sharing. You need to show login flow and all API functionality of app. This worked for me. The usecase looks correct for your app.
I'm trying to make the app that will just post videos and images to Instagram BUT this will not be done automatically. It will be like normal post dialog like in Instagram app.
However my question is if I'm going to use that will it be attempt to replace the essential user experience of Instagram.com or the Instagram apps.
Regards, divjad---
Here's a link to the api docs for Instagram, though on quick inspection, it looks like it can handle uploads of images, though it doesn't mention video. Either way, it should tell you everything you need to know in here.
Please see links below
Instagram Developer's page for the api
Instagram Developer's page specific to iOS and Android
Given an artist, does the Spotify app api provide the ability to get related artists? This would be essentially the same list that is shown in the upper right corner of the artist detail page.
There are several 3rd party apis that provide access to this kind of data (like last.fm or echonest), but I'm wondering if this information is directly available in a spotify app.
No it does not. You could use echonest api to get similar artists and music.
While the previous answer was true at the time it was asked, I wanted to note that this information is now available in the v1.x api - Artist's have a related collection, in case others come looking for the same info.