I only see Artist, Album, and Tracks lookups in the docs. I want to display what I'm currently listening to. Is there a way to do this using the API?
https://developer.spotify.com/technologies/web-api/lookup/
Spotify does not provide this at this time. You can either get it by turning on last.fm scrobbling or accessing facebook music data.
As Thomas said Spotify does not provide such a feature 'directly'.
But there are some ways to get it work.
You have to me some more sprcific what you want to do. Web/Desktop/App
I wrote a tiny console app using an external dll
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If this is what you need just message me. It's a rly tiny application just for test purposes! Because I currently develop a overlay.
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I am working with some clients who want to be able to see the average completion percentage their tracks are listened to on Spotify (e.g. 50% is half the song).
The API documentation doesnt show how this can be done, but i have seen some label platforms offering this data (AWAL etc)
Am I missing anything obvious?
API Document Link: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/
Thanks in advance!
I've looked through the documentation and no obvious field for completion time
As for many APIs there seems to be a separate one for Analytics https://analytics.spotify.com/faq/api#api
It also looks like you need to be a label/author registered with Spotify https://analytics.spotify.com/c/api/
I am a developer for playmoss where users can create playlists with different music services.
We are planning on adding Spotify support to our playlists in a way similar to what bop.fm does.
Context
Taking for example this playlist (in which all songs are available on spotify, at least in Spain)…
https://bop.fm/p/o12l
…if we have the spotify client installed in our computer (tested with a Mac)
As soon as the playlist starts playing we can click the spotify icon on the top right [picture]and we will be playing the songs through spotify.
Using the bop.fm control interface we can pause, play, skip next, even skip to a point in the track with progress bar.
This is similar but even more powerful than the official spotify play button, see an example here:
http://jsfiddle.net/insonorizate/a5jf39yn/
With the play button there is previous, play, pause, next functionality but not seek.
Of course it can not be customized in any way nor called from javascript.
(in bop.fm is possible to open a debuger console and call
Bop.Player.pause()
or
Bop.Player.play()
to pause or play the track beeing played in bop.fm via spotify)
Fiddling a little with the bop.fm page there are some interesting things. Ther is an iframe in the main page poiting to:
https://embed.spotify.com/remote-control-bridge/
Viewing this iframe source we find something like this:
// Expose the OAuth Token to the Javascript
var tokenData = 'NAowChgKB1Nwb3RpZnkSABoGmAEByAEBJReQCFQSFG2Ynvz1oBKgxv2mE1XXz_1Au-cg';
// Pass the remote control to the bridge
var remoteControlBridge = new Spotify.RemoteControlBridge();
remoteControlBridge.init(tokenData);
There's no documentation for Spotify.RemoteControlBridge (0 results for "Spotify.RemoteControlBridge" on google) and there isn't any thing in the documentation of the different apis even close to controling the spotify player in a way similar to this.
Question
How can I control the spotify desktop app from a browser?
Does bop.fm have any special arrangment with spotify and they are using some "secret api"?
Are they exploiting some functionality that I fail to find?
Is it possible to replicate it?
Is it in accordance with the Spotify terms?
Thanks!
You can't control the Spotify Client or Listen to Events the Spotify Web Helper is emitting. Imagine everybody could: every website could potentially play a song without your permission or even know instantly what you are listening to. To prevent this Spotify only allows approved partners to use this feature.
As you figured out the remote-control-bridge provides this functionality. It can communicate with the Spotify Web Helper running on your system, which is secured by an OAuth and a CSRF Token. In the remote-control-bridge you even can see the allowed partners:
Spotify (who knew)
Yahoo
last.fm
coachella.com
bop.fm
sandpit.us
echonest
musixmatch
You can contact them and ask for a partnership. I'm sure they won't bite.
This is actually a little bit documentated on the website of Spotify in the developers section.
I think bop.fm does use their custom Spotify Play Button widget. That makes use of the iframe that you mentioned.
Here you can find the documentation about this functionality of Spotify. You can then modify it to your own needs using Javascript etc.
I was looking for a way to display my last played Spotify track on my website. I succeeded using the Last.FM API. Spotify doesn't have an open API and the music part of Facebook seems to be locked down too. So I now scrobble everything to last.fm and use their API to get the last played song. This works fine, but I thought it would be fun to display a "play now" button to play the track on spotify.
To do that, I need the Spotify ID for the particular song, which the last.fm api doesn't seem to return.
So... two questions:
1) is there a way to get the same info from Spotify itself?
2) if not, is there a good way to get the matching spotify song using the Last.FM details?
1) No. Spotify doesn't have a play history API. However, you can use Facebook's listens endpoint if the user is publishing listens to Facebook.
2) Not directly, as far as I'm aware. However, a quick Google turns up this project. Failing that, you can use the Spotify Web Search API to search for a track matching the metadata. The Advanced Search Syntax may come in handy here.
I am building an app that needs to know if a track is playable in the user's region.
It's easy to check the basic territorial restrictions of a track using the Metadata API. However, I am encountering tracks that the Metadata API says are out of my region, but are auto-linked to versions of the same track that aren't region locked. ie. Metadata says I can't play a track, but as far as the user is concerned, Spotify can play that track.
Here's an example:
'Sweet Unrest' by Apparat # spotify:track:4H4h3ulzjGVox14GHiCEoo
I am in the UK (territory code GB)
The lookup link is http://ws.spotify.com/lookup/1/.json?uri=spotify:track:4H4h3ulzjGVox14GHiCEoo
There is no GB code in the resulting territories string, so in theory, I should not be able to play the track. However, in the main Spotify player, I can see that it is auto linked to spotify:track:11S6TQybYumAnNApugZWSJ which is playable in my region. If I paste the supposedly unplayable track's URI into the top left Spotify search box, it plays.
Is there an API based way to check for tracks like this?
You can detect whether a track is playable or not using an undocumented property of each track: data.availableForPlayback
Track.fromURI("spotify:track:XXX", function(track) {
alert(track.data.availableForPlayback);
});
If you run the code above, you should get a True/False that does what you're after.
Unfortunately not, not at this time. The linking is actually done by the client itself rather than any of our backend services, so none of our APIs have this information.
I just want to experiment writing a little app that will let you know how many people on spotify are listening to the same song you are. Not just your friends but everyone!
given the responses to similar questions that can be found here, here, here and here I would say that it is probably not possible for privacy reasons, as the spotify API does not intend to let you access the users spotify id which would be required to get the tracks you where listening to.