Retrieve User's Currently Playing Track

[sanjams2]

Is there a way/plans of an update to the web-api that provides a way to get the song a user is currently listening to?

[thelinmichael]

Thanks for opening this issue @jsanders67. Without going into detail - yes, we'd like to expose this in the Web API. How and when is uncertain and I urge you not to expect this feature being available in the short term.

[sean1rose]

Looking forward to this being implemented as well!

[vivekvasani]

+1 for this enhancement

[DefV]

+1

[rjrahul]

+1. Looking for a way to get list of tracks played by user in reverse chronological order.

[ardixiv]

+1

[ghost]

+1

[luxcapto]

+1

[Eastborn]

+1

[antons-]

+1

[sanjams2]

I know this is not an ideal workaround, but I thought I would post it anyways. If you get your user to subscribe to last.fm or if they already are, you can use the last.fm api to get their current song they are listening to on spotify. Obviously this is annoying to make them subscribe to last.fm with their spotify account, but it's the only way I have found with spotify's current api setup to get the current song being played by the user

[SkylerLutz]

+1

[emanuelemacri]

+1

[AriannaStory]

+1

[slaght]

+1

[linath]

+1

[thomasvamos]

+1

[kaulbersch]

+1

[b0tting]

+1

[Vultour]

+1

[jolantz]

+1

[OGPoyraz]

+1

[antons-]

Hey @thelinmichael is there any updates on this? There is clearly alot of interest for this feature :)

[wenzowski]

:+1: this was easy with the old api.

[thelinmichael]

Sorry @antons-, no updates yet.

@wenzowski, just to clarify for others, I assume the old API you're referring to is not the deprecated Metadata Web API, but the Apps API for applications integrated in Spotify's desktop application.

[wenzowski]

@thelinmichael yes, was referring to apps api

[srijak]

+1

[purdyk]

This would be an excellent addition to the API :+1:

[jamespizzurro]

+1

[srijak]

If showing current playing track is hard to do for some reason (consistency?), how about the ability to set up a custom scroobling endpoint? Surely that can't be as difficult since the basics should already be there to support last.fm?

No need to solve every case: if you just allow users to setup a custom url[0] to post currently playing track info to, I think that would be enough.

[0] If supporting auth is a problem, we can support http basic (or whatever lastfm does) or we can even generate user specific urls in the interim.

[blakehilscher]

+1

[ghost]

:+1:

[hycday]

+1 with srijak idea ! custom scrobling endpoint would be awesome as I prefer not to rely on another 3rd party (example : Lastfm is migrating and API has issues for the last days)

[serefyarar]

+1

[KristopherWindsor]

+1

[dylanjmcdonald]

+1

[jwhazel]

+1

[hinzundcode]

+1

[hdkiller]

+1

[adrienbrault]

:+1:

[ebt]

I was suprised to see that this is not possible with the current web api, it's such a basic feature to have :(

[ricardodani]

+1

[danyay]

+1

[yuanphoon]

+1

[splio-rtheys]

Yup, +1.

[Tsuktis]

+1

[ghost]

-35

[robinsharma]

:+1:

[hunaczech]

+1

[holmberd]

+1