Comment by soheilpro
5 years ago
This is great, but the sad truth is that unofficial clients like this can never grow big and support more than a few thousand users, given how ridiculously low Spotify API's rate limits are.
My project https://volt.fm has 100k+ users now and I'm really struggling with the Spotify API.
The trick would be to have each user register their own API key.
This seems like such an obvious answer, why isn't it significantly more common?
Because that will also self-select the audience to be really small.
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The Spotify API doesn't support private API keys, so you need to create your own OAuth App and then authorize it for yourself.
Also, they can lock out out overnight and good luck appealing to the legal team.
How does the nature of the API determine the number of users?
I meant rate limits. Edited my original comment.