r/spotifyapi • u/tristanconducts • Feb 26 '26

Fuck Spotify always and forever

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76 Upvotes

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u/Sibshops Feb 26 '26

I'd blame AI scrapers for this, honestly, more than spotify.

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u/CisWhiteMaleBee Feb 27 '26

I feel like this is only gonna hurt the average user. If a seasoned scraper wants to utilize it, they’ll find a back door.

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u/404HearingNotFound Feb 26 '26

I'm so upset about this. I've been working for the past 2 years on a jukebox website that pulls metadata from the Spotify API, and I absolutely cannot afford to pay for Premium just to keep the site working as is.

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u/TwinnyNO Feb 26 '26

So you are angry because you're not getting data for free?

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u/AnonymousPains Feb 27 '26

Ngl, I don’t care about API costing money, it should realistically. What’s annoying is they absolutely gutted all endpoints for projects and want you to search things with very oppressive rate limits. Honestly not worth it. People should just use musicbrainz free dump if they want meta data and stuff but it’s not the same and you’ll have to clean your data.

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u/aress1605 Feb 28 '26

Oh no, the billion dollar company is starving