Retrieve Current User's followed Users

[digitaldesaster]

It would be great to have api calls to

get a list of Artists a User follows get a list of Users a User follows

best regards Alex

[danwani]

Agreed, this would be a great feature. It was apparently possible under the old App API http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16539320/how-to-get-all-artists-of-a-user-spotify-api-1-x I can understand this could potentially be a weighty call if a user had many artists saved, so there would need to be options for retrieving say top 20 artists for a user. Some sorting options inline with those on the app (i.e.most popular, name etc), would be nice too! Thanks guys!

[slaght]

I would really appreciate this functionality too. It is literally the only part of the API I would need and its not implemented, just my luck hahaha. Just chiming in to show support for this request!

Cheers!

[patmanh]

:+1: +1!

[mjmsmith]

+1 for a list of users a user follows. (Rdio, for instance, supports followers and followed users.)

[TristanH]

+1

[d4rky-pl]

+1

[jvanheugten]

+1! Also for obtaining the albums a user has saved.

[khamaileon]

+1

[soundspectrum]

+1!

Apologies if we're missing something, but isn't adding a query for getting a list of IDs the user is following relatively trivial? I mean, Spotify already has that list associated with a user ID/asset, so why not simply expose it? We totally understand that getting a follows list for a given user ID is a different story.

Being able to query the IDs a user is following is a critical feature and in sharp contrast to what is available, for example, in the soundcloud api.

[909kishore]

+1

[jlewallen]

+1

[LindsayElia]

+1

I'd like to make a game where users who follow each other can guess the song titles on playlists belonging to the other users. To do that, I need to know which users are connected to each other.

[sachdevs]

+1

[danilocecilia]

+1

[thieba]

+1

[ThePenguin1140]

+1

[Weathercamp]

+1

[thelinmichael]

We've just released an endpoint that allows you to retrieve a user's followed artists. Please try it out in the API console, or read about it in the documentation. Reports of any bugs or otherwise unexpected behaviour that you may find is of course greatly appreciated.

Getting followed users isn't supported yet, and we figured that it's better to release this endpoint separately instead of waiting for both endpoints to be finished.

[sachdevs]

Thanks a lot Michael!, looking forward to the other endpoint as well :+1:

[jlewallen]

Great news, really appreciate the movement on these issues!

[danilocecilia]

Hey, thats awesome! Thank you!

Looking forward for the next endpoint release! ;)

[danilocecilia]

Hi, why this feature ( get a list of Users a User follows ) is taking so long to be done, I really need this on my project =/

[vjandrea]

+1 I would love this feature to build a 'friends playlist': if we invite our friends to a party we could create a playlist that matches the taste of everybody. Also a "six degrees" app would be cool IMHO.

[nikhilbedi]

+1 for retrieving the users a single user is following.

[javierhonduco]

:+1:

[holmberd]

+1 Get User’s Followed Users, that would be awesome. Cheers!

[ozencem]

+1 that would be a great feature!

[mjmsmith]

Getting followed users isn't supported yet, and we figured that it's better to release this endpoint separately instead of waiting for both endpoints to be finished.

Hello, any update on when getting followed users is likely to be supported?

[dknoern]

I am interested in an endpoint that allows you to get the lists of users you follow and that follow you. This would enable is a key feature in app I am writing. Without it I must also auth with facebook and try to find friends. It would be much easier and cleaner to simply list followers from a spotify API.

[duhseekoh]

This would be great. It was pretty funny, the first endpoint I look for in the API and I see "Required. The ID type: currently only artist is supported." -- I get it, this stuff takes a while to get approved, etc... But it'll be nice when it's in there!

[benjoho]

+1

[robertmryan]

It's been about a year since the last update on this issue. Is there an ETA for endpoint to retrieve the list of users that a user follows?

[samlee405]

Yes, any insight into the implementation of this endpoint would be greatly appreciated!

[jaedb]

Ditto - this development community sees Spotify as a great resource, but it's challenging to continue working with the Spotify infrastructure when development is very slow and communication is lacking!

[jscholes]

Ditto - this development community sees Spotify as a great resource, but it's challenging to continue working with the Spotify infrastructure when development is very slow and communication is lacking!

Perhaps one of the issues is that Spotify themselves make this API available, but don't actually use it in any of their customer-facing projects? The Spotify web, desktop and mobile players all communicate using a custom web service and websockets. If you're not actively using your own API in your products, at least a little, there's no real urge to make it a priority. Out of sight, out of mind.

[duhseekoh]

@jscholes - I would consider the fact that they may just not want to release this. Look at apis like instagram. They recently gutted the use cases and endpoints for their api. 3rd party consumer apps have been virtually eliminated, so people use the core platform, not some other app. Could be a similar play here, since releasing a list of followers opens up a lot of social app opportunities... not in the official spotify app.

[hynesj]

Is anyone else having issues with this? When I try to retrieve the followed artists, it will step over large sections of artists without returning them. For example, I have about 450ish followed artists, but, when going by 50s, I only ended up with 103. I can find others by manually entering various IDs for the "after" parameter. For example, at one point, the ID for the artists jumped from the 1's to the 7's. There are a lot of artists in between that that should have been picked up.

[hughrawlinson]

Hey @hynesj, could you submit a new issue with more info that I can pass on as a bug report to the responsible team? Thanks!

[jjdorney1]

We've made a web app to auto-generate playlists but are forcing the user to go into Spotify's app to get the URI for their friends which is pretty cumbersome. Being able to automatically gather those users and put them in a list would seriously help make our app more user friendly.

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[malonehedges]

Hi from 2017!

[ow-ph]

+1 for Followed Users Endpoint :)

[mjmsmith]

What with today being the second anniversary of this issue, are there any updates on when/if it is likely to be implemented?

[VerteDinde]

+1 for Followed Users endpoint! :) Thanks Spotify.

[michieldewilde]

+1 For Followed Users Endpoint

[maximko]

+1

[ghost]

+1 +1 +1 +1 +1

[tim-kozak]

Really? 3 years

[mjmsmith]

Yeah, but look how punctually the duplicates get closed.

[alyce-pascoe]

I would love the ability to be able to view and use the information of the user's friend's activity. For example, the song that the user's friend is currently listening to.

Thanks!

[zhammer]

+1