This is very sad, and another nudge away from Spotify for me.
I remember the API being a motivator for signing up, and I've hacked together a few toys with it over the years.
Realistically now, the only benefit Spotify provides over my MP3 collection is that it's better organised.
Unfortunately, this breaks a lot of custom python programs I was using to facilitate music discovery and to generate playlists for myself.
It doesn’t affect existing apps
> Applications with existing extended mode Web API access that were relying on these endpoints remain unaffected by this change.
Doesn't affect existing apps with extended mode access, for which you have to apply and be approved. Gives you a higher ratelimit so you can ship to production. Plenty of people (me included) build small widgets for themselves without bothering to apply for extended.
Long time ago, spotify allowed us to create, modify our playlists through end points. Now, it's impossible.
When did this stop being supported by Spotify?
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/referenc...
I think you are talking about "Get Featured Playlists", which is more geared towards Spotify created playlists, which is under the 'Browse' tab in Spotify.
Are any alternative APIs (non Spotify) available for the functionality being deprecated in this notice?
Not any good ones unfortunately! Great opportunity for someone to make one while other platforms are still scrapeable.
Godspeed to all the OSS Adversarial Interoperability reverse engineers! APIs should be a digital human right.
De-enshittify by any means necessary!
Companies are going to continue to enshittify as long as customers refuse to leave them. There's no incentive not to.
People who want to do stuff like making custom apps or scripts that use these APIs should instead be building their own music servers.
And when one is building this kind of a music server, please support your favourite artists!
Ideally, if they have a Bandcamp or something similar, where you can directly buy their tracks and albums from them, do that. Usually this means that you can get access to high-quality FLACs and whatnot, but it will also mean that more money will go directly to the artists (usually money going to the record label and whatnot is unavoidable even with this, but there will still be fewer people in the middle).
And well, if that's not a thing, then at least try to buy the tracks from somewhere, so that they at least see some return on their efforts. Maybe physical CDs and the like. The point is just to be able to support your favourite artists!
> Kills API
> Third party integrations continue to play an important role in the way users can experience the Spotify experience through third party apps. We evaluate the set up of our platform on an ongoing basis and remain committed to ensuring it provides the best possible opportunities for developers, artists, creators and listeners.
Read that as: Hell yeah, we're gonna enshittify.
Has the same ring as "we value your privacy. That’s why we and our 739 partners want to track everything you do, link it to your real ID and sell it off to anyone willing to buy."
Spotify announced they have shut down several API endpoints, effective immediately. They have grandfathered in existing apps that have extended mode Web API access.