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Those aren’t REST APIs to gather data about songs or your history. They are native APIs to control Spotify app on that machine etc. I think a fair amount of th

by alpb 7y ago

Those aren’t REST APIs to gather data about songs or your history. They are native APIs to control Spotify app on that machine etc. I think a fair amount of their business relies on gathering data from people and recommending music. They don’t let 3rd parties to do that.

sologuardsman2 7y ago
Perhaps, but they also have APIs for song data and user listening preferences. It's actually pretty impressive how accessible their platform is to developers. [1] https://developer.spotify.com/discover/#recommendations https://developer.spotify.com/discover/#recommendations