How can I show a share popup for a playlist I created by like this?
var playlist = new models.Playlist("My cool playlist");
As the uri is not available for the new playlist due to security policies, how can I allow the user to share the playlist though the standard share popup? The showSharePopup does not accept an instance of playlist but without any URI I don't know how to do?
The reason for asking is that I'm working on an app for distribution on App FInder and they want me to make it possible to share new playlists from the app in the next update.
...and they want me to make it possible to share new playlists from the app in the next update.
If you have someone in Spotify asking you to do something that seems impossible, it's probably a good idea to ask them how they want you to do it!
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[context part] I am currently on vacation in austria, and decided to buy some tickets for the zoo in insbruck. After typing in my data... a link to their app in the google play store. And after downloading it, google play didnt show the usual open button, to open the app, rather it showed a button saying "continue" and after clicking it, the app opened with my data already in place
so here is my question: how may they have done it, and how can i implement it in my own app / website
thanks a lot in advance, would be nice if there was a easy way of doing this
EDIT: idk, may they have shared the session-token somehow, used the ip of my mobile?
You can achieve this using Firebase Dynamic Links
this is done by Add an intent filter for deep links
As with plain deep links, you must add a new intent filter to the activity that handles deep links for your app. The intent filter should catch deep links of your domain, since the Dynamic Link will redirect to your domain if your app is installed. This is required for your app to receive the Dynamic Link data after it is installed/updated from the Play Store and one taps on Continue button. In AndroidManifest.xml:
As you might know, the permission system from Spotify isn't the best. You can just mark a playlist collaborative, and every single spotify user can edit the Playlist without my approval. Therefore, I am writing an application (using Spotify Web Api, node and mysql) that gives the user more control over the collaborative playlists. It should support sub-playlists, votes and a small permission system, which allows just some users to modify the playlist.
In order for that to work, I need a service running all the time in the background. This service should sync my version of the playlist with spotify. Because the user, who owns the playlist, will most likely not be logged in, i have created a special Spotify User for my service. Now, i have to edit the collaborative Playlist using this spotify user.
When i try to delete some Tracks from such a playlist, i get the following answer:
{
"error" :
{
"status" : 403,
"message" : "You cannot remove tracks from a playlist you don't own."
}
}
Do you know if there is a way to delete a Track from a playlist i don't own? And if not, Do you have any idea how to get around this problem?
Do you know if there is a way to delete a Track from a playlist i don't own?
This isn't possible, even if the playlist is collaborative.
And if not, Do you have any idea how to get around this problem?
One way is to create a playlist owned and edited by a user that you control. Server-side you'd keep an access token for that user, and simply refresh it when necessary. Since the refresh token lasts forever, you'd never have to require a user to go through any form of authentication flow.
Hope this helped!
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 recently just got through the beginning tutorial for creating a web app with the spotify api. https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/tutorial/. The tutorial was great for showing how to authenticate a user with oauth and log in a user.
The problem I am having is with the endpoint. I can't seem to figure out how to change the endpoint so that instead of displaying a users profile, I can see a list of a users track, better yet starred or top 10 tracks.
for a 10,000 view perspective of what I want to build is a app that would allow users to easily log in through their spotify account, take their stared or top tracks and push them to a radio that I am building with an raspberry pi.
I am new to working with the spotify api and working with api's in general so whatever advice would be awesome.
At the moment, there is no way to get the "starred"-playlist. (At least it's not documented)
I don't know what you mean with "Top 10 User tracks", since this doesn't exist as far as I know
To get a list of the account's current playlists, change the URL to:
https://api.spotify.com/v1/users/{user_id}/playlists
With this URL, you will get a list of simple-playlist-objects wrapped inside a paging-object. Now you can select one of the playlists (or loop through them) and fetch its track this way
NOTE:
If you also want to fetch private playlists, make sure you use the scope playlist_read_private
Is it possible to create an app-bound playlist?
It's possible to create a playlist for a user, but how will I know which one that is when they move away from my app?
Ideally, I would only need to be able to create/edit 1 playlist.
Edit: Have found this http://developer.spotify.com/technologies/apps/guidelines/integration/#appsthatcreateplaylisturi:s
But if anyone has great ideas, I'm still open!
As you've found out yourself, you can't create a playlist in a user's library that's somehow linked to your application using the Spotify Apps API.
I thought it'd be a good idea to also quote the relevant part of the Integration Guidelines that you've linked to:
If you want to generate and save the user’s personal playlists in the
app, you should not keep playlist information only saved within the
app. Playlist information should instead be handled by utilizing user
playlists, so that the user can access playlists as usual. They
shouldn’t have to go to the app to access a certain playlist that they
have created.
Suggestion:
I think there's several ways to do what you want to do though.
One way could be to let a user create a new playlist using your application and save it to the user's library, and at the same time save the playlist URI to your own back end. As you've noted, playlist URIs are obfuscated (e.g. they look like spotify:user:#:playlist:783BHaT7Xb8K5VyYstxsj3 instead of spotify:user:thelinmichael:playlist:783BHaT7Xb8K5VyYstxsj3, the username is replaced by # for the currently logged in user, and #xxx.. for other users). You could still save the last part of the URI, which I believe is unique for every playlist. Using a hashmap to map that part of the playlist URI to properties you want to keep track of would let you do quick lookups of a user's playlists to see if they are associated to your app. You could iterate though the user's library to gather all obfuscated URIs, and send them to your backend in a single HTTP request. The response from your server could be the index of the library playlists that matched the playlist on your backend, along with the properties you've mapped to it. Again, this was just a suggestion and possibly not the best way forward but I hope it gave you some ideas. :-)