Spotify API is no longer free

[steveiliop56]

Hello,

I was so excited to give your spotify a try but after getting 403s I discovered that spotify made their web API only available to premium accounts. Specifically:

• Development Mode use will require a Spotify Premium account
• Developers will be limited to one Development Mode Client ID
• Each Client ID will be limited to up to five authorized users
• API access will be limited to a smaller set of supported endpoints

I am personally not willing to give them a single cent so, I am leaving this as a warning for new users trying the project. Perhaps a note in the readme would be nice too. In any way thank you for this project even though I didn't get to try it : (

[TzurSoffer]

Yea its unfortunate, I tried to change it, but I dont know anything about js so I just made a new app instead. If anyone has this issue, they can use mine instead. It has tracking, importing, and top songs. Please let me knwo if there are any issues so I can fix them.
https://github.com/TzurSoffer/SpotifyStatsTracker

[steveiliop56]

Looks interesting! How did you get it to work without the API?

[TzurSoffer]

I coded my own spotipy API called spotipyFree it's on GitHub if u wanna take a look. It uses email and cookies and talks directly to the Spotify backend

[steveiliop56]

Thank you, I will have a look!

[eastoncrafter]

So does this mean that Your Spotify is now non-functional for instances greater than 5 people?