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.
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The Owl City subreddit (/r/OWLCITY) is running into a unique problem: Whenever Adam Young posts something new to Instagram (#owlcityofficial), there's an influx of new Reddit posts saying that Adam posted something new. I suggested (and if I can get it off the ground, hope to do so with the approval of the subreddit's moderators) to create a bot that automatically creates a new post whenever Adam posts something to Instagram, as a sort of "master thread." All discussion about the post could be had there, with all others being subject to deletion.
This appears to be easier said than done. Looking briefly at Reddit's API's this appears to be possible. But on Instagram's end, that's another story. It appears Instagram deprecated and shut down their first API last year, and I can't find any information on whether the two APIs still available support something like this. I would prefer to use the Display API, as I doubt I qualify to use the Graph API. Furthermore, I can't find any useful information on the Instagram API. Also, almost any search for what I'm trying to do shows a plethora of results of how to do it with the OLD API, and limiting the results to the last year doesn't bring up anything useful.
Is there a way to do what I want to do? Keep in mind I'm relatively new to programming, so any help with this would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!
Maybe use Python with Selenium to get the Channel Page and get the first entry. Compare it with and if it is newer, scrape it. No API needed, if you not want to dig to deep into API references.
Try search for Instagram Basic Display API.
Please specify what kind of programming Language you have experience.
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 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.
I've been looking through the API support section of the Spotify website for any way to see what everyone in, for instance, Amsterdam is listening to right now.
I did find this web app that appears to do exactly that but it's from Spotify itself and I'm not sure if all developers can have access to the same data.
If anyone could point me in the right direction (even if it is letting me know it's impossible) that would be fantastic!
That is a Spotify's project using data that is not currently exposed through Spotify APIs.
The closest you can find is the Charts API which can provide you with daily top charts by country.
I'd like to allow Spotify users to post a small note along with a song when they post in a collaborative playlist. Is this possible with a Spotify app, or will I have to implement something else? Thoughts?
+1 for the feature idea, but I don't believe it's possible with the current system. You could maintain your own database of comments linked to the playlist and track ids and display it in a Spotify app.