Open van4oza opened 7 months ago
Thanks - Pandora updated
In what context does that Spotify UA present itself? Is that for episode download requests within the Spotify in-app browser itself?
@van4oza, where/when does the spotify app send that user agent?
I don't really know where it comes from. We are getting this UA as we are providing url prefixes for many podcast publishers at Podscribe. I just see A LOT of download requests from this UA, so we need to normalize it
@johnspurlock Probably its browser as it looks like like suffixed browser UA. But mb I'm wrong.
It seems to be Android (in addition to "Linux", "Android" in the ua, SM-S908U is S22 ultra)
But I wasn't able to reproduce this user-agent from the Spotify app on Android, even when browsing around in show notes - links opened in Chrome - it's almost like the user is playing episodes from the browser within Spotify? I'd be skeptical if you're seeing a bunch of these.
Would really love to get to the bottom of where these are coming from. And if from Spotify on Android, how to get there.
I've seen exactly zero of these across all shows using https://op3.dev which is why I'm interested in this!
Could it be a spam bot? I checked our database, and could not find that user agent. However we found a few that said Spotify + Amazon IP addresses.
We know that Spotify uses Google data centres so we marked it as spam.
We have also seen this UA a few times. The referrer is always https://open.spotify.com/
, but requests look like normal listeners.
┌────────delivered_at─┬─request_user_agent────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬─autonomous_system_organization────────────────────┐
│ 2022-08-18 09:11:52 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/103.0.5060.134 Spotify/1.1.91.824 Safari/537.36 │ M-net Telekommunikations GmbH │
│ 2023-03-06 16:33:47 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.5414.87 Spotify/1.2.6.863 Safari/537.36 │ Vodafone GmbH │
│ 2023-03-06 16:33:50 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/109.0.5414.87 Spotify/1.2.6.863 Safari/537.36 │ Vodafone GmbH │
│ 2023-03-27 10:07:10 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.5249.119 Spotify/1.2.3.1115 Safari/537.36 │ Vodafone GmbH │
│ 2023-03-27 10:07:11 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.5249.119 Spotify/1.2.3.1115 Safari/537.36 │ Vodafone GmbH │
│ 2023-03-27 10:07:11 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.5249.119 Spotify/1.2.3.1115 Safari/537.36 │ Vodafone GmbH │
│ 2023-03-27 10:07:11 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.5249.119 Spotify/1.2.3.1115 Safari/537.36 │ Vodafone GmbH │
│ 2023-03-27 10:07:11 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.5249.119 Spotify/1.2.3.1115 Safari/537.36 │ Vodafone GmbH │
│ 2023-03-27 10:07:21 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.5249.119 Spotify/1.2.3.1115 Safari/537.36 │ Vodafone GmbH │
│ 2023-03-27 10:07:25 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.5249.119 Spotify/1.2.3.1115 Safari/537.36 │ Vodafone GmbH │
│ 2023-03-27 10:07:31 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.5249.119 Spotify/1.2.3.1115 Safari/537.36 │ Vodafone GmbH │
│ 2023-07-18 16:30:18 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.5672.128 Spotify/1.2.16.947 Safari/537.36 │ Telefonica Germany │
│ 2023-07-18 16:30:28 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.5672.128 Spotify/1.2.16.947 Safari/537.36 │ Telefonica Germany │
│ 2023-07-18 16:30:34 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.5672.128 Spotify/1.2.16.947 Safari/537.36 │ Telefonica Germany │
│ 2023-07-18 16:30:36 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.5672.128 Spotify/1.2.16.947 Safari/537.36 │ Telefonica Germany │
│ 2023-10-16 12:39:50 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.5845.190 Spotify/1.2.22.982 Safari/537.36 │ Telefonica Germany │
│ 2024-03-06 10:07:41 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.6167.184 Spotify/1.2.32.997 Safari/537.36 │ NetCologne Gesellschaft fur Telekommunikation mbH │
│ 2024-03-06 10:07:42 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.6167.184 Spotify/1.2.32.997 Safari/537.36 │ NetCologne Gesellschaft fur Telekommunikation mbH │
│ 2024-06-09 22:32:50 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.6367.119 Spotify/1.2.39.578 Safari/537.36 │ A1 Telekom Austria AG │
│ 2024-06-09 22:33:24 │ Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/124.0.6367.119 Spotify/1.2.39.578 Safari/537.36 │ A1 Telekom Austria AG │
└─────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
here is the screenshot taking today from Spotify website
Note this is what my browser shows when I play one of our podcasts on Spotify.
Web browsers can't set user-agents (for podcast audio). Without lots of CORS shenanigans anyway. Your screenshot shows a browser useragent, because that's what it is.
It has to be an in-app browser inside the Spotify app. Anyone able to figure out how to launch it?
@knoxmic do you have a Car Thing? would love to do a test
Hi! please add Spotify app uas of this kind
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 13; SM-S908U) AppleWebkit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/534.30 Spotify/888000599 (6; 2; 7)
And Pandora app uas like this
Pandora/2179 CFNetwork/1410.0.3 Darwin/22.6.0