Retrieve Current User's Followed Users' Currently Playing Track #83
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Doesn't this mechanism already exist when a user confirms they want to publish their activity on Spotify or share activity on Facebook in the settings? I can already see the songs being listened to by people I follow. If they publish their activity to all of their followers and they don't have any control over who follows them, shouldn't this include third parties already? |
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@graham768 raises a good point, but I think the distinction here is between an application having these permissions vs. a user who's viewing this information via the API. While it is true that a user has controls over what activity of theirs is publicly visible and where, there's no ability for users to distinguish these privacy controls between a third party application vs. someone that follows them (see below).
That said, that wouldn't stop a determined third party from simply firing up Charles (or an equivalent) and simply watching traffic to discover the "secret" official endpoint for this, anyways. It follows that, if you're making your Spotify activity public, it's not hard to get ahold of. I think that it's important to decouple the reuse of publicly available information here- if you're explicitly consenting to making these details public, it would imply that you're also consenting to allowing others the ability to read and record that information. Otherwise, you wouldn't have turned that feature on in the first place. For many people (including myself), I think it would fit nicely into the current permissions model if it were possible to see the recent activity of friends I follow via the API, perhaps even with the contention that we must be mutual followers. For third-party applications requesting this functionality, this would be easy to include in Spotify's OAuth scopes, satisfying the granular privacy controls being sought out here (as the user must explicitly grant those permissions to the application requesting them). Anyways, much love to the Spotify team!! You've built an amazing product. Hope to see this feature implemented one day, possibly:) |
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Interestingly enough I've came to the api documentation just to find out there are no way to get user's friend's activity using the official api, despite the fact that the app itself shows that information. Thanks, |
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Any updates on this issue? |
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I've been looking around for this aswell. Any updates? |
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I am also looking forward to this option. I've promised to my son that I'll make for him Pi or Arduino based device, with a small display, where he can see friend activity feed scrolling (: Probably I can make a list of a friends, and do it in a different way, but it will be nice to have it as already fine-tuned API. |
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Would love to see this implemented. Several apps made using Spotify API would be able to utilize this. It would open up a range of possibilities. |
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Made an account so I could post that I, too, would love to hear if there are any updates to this! |
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This is the url the Spotify App uses to retrieve the data: https://spclient.wg.spotify.com/presence-view/v1/buddylist |
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Has anything else happened with this? |
How did you find this API? Probably same way API call to get app token can be found? |
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It would be really useful to have a way to see what friends and followed people of a user are listening to right now, like the desktop client does in the right sidebar.
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