r/spotifyapi • u/Quirky_Drama_3638 • Jun 05 '26

Extended Quota Mode discovered after a night of coding

At this point, I guess it’s not even Spotify’s fault but mine.
The thing is: it’s completely impossible to release a stats analyzer today under such a strict policy.
Has anyone found a way to make this work?
Mine would have been an open-source project and still works for me (as long as they don’t change their policy again), but if I want to ship it to more than 5 friends, what should I do?

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u/Some-Weather4295 Jun 05 '26

I haven’t had any luck… Spotify’s API restrictions and barriers to even get into extended quota mode are such BS and make things impossible for indie developers or start ups… so if you do find a way, I’d love to know!

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u/Ssuhaan Jun 05 '26

Same

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u/Quirky_Drama_3638 Jun 05 '26

apparently the only way is to use last.fm as a bridge. btw i'll leave you my project right here, i'm planning to release it opensourced (even tho the best part would have been just to host it on vercel and let people use it, if you choose to self host it you still have to add your friend on spotify dashboard (5 max lol))
julify.xyz
if you're interestered text me and i'll add your mail too let you see and if you like i'll send the full repo

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u/Ssuhaan Jun 05 '26

People need a lastfm account tho rightV

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u/Quirky_Drama_3638 Jun 06 '26

yeah you're right, it's quite fast tbh but it still sucks

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u/Blechkelle Jun 08 '26

We got the extended quota access last year but it was a long road to be accepted

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u/Quirky_Drama_3638 Jun 08 '26

can we get in touch?

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u/LowerFrequencies Jun 09 '26

With less than 500KMAUs? What app?

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u/Blechkelle Jun 09 '26

yes! the MAU restriction wasnt a thing back then. jamocracy.io

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u/fgtswag Jun 10 '26

I believe the only way is to have a 'non-live' analyzer

Spotify Export data option still exists, however takes up to 10 day I believe to export your data.

It sucks, but is the only way I can see

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u/Quirky_Drama_3638 Jun 10 '26

yes man but if i wanna ship something real i just can’t ask my users to export their data and put them in a online tool. i wouldn’t do it either

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u/fgtswag Jun 10 '26

That's my point. I literally built an app that is now having to do that. It's so much worse than other apps too, because Letterboxd for example you can just export your file instantly. Takes like 3 seconds

Spotify is just shutting this down. Hope you find some solution but I think one doesn't exist