We’re excited about what’s in store for the future of the Player API, and about the apps that developers are making with its functionality.

In 2020, the Player API was further improved by the addition of an add-to-queue API - a new endpoint that developers can use to add tracks to the list of songs or podcast episodes that are playing next.

When paired with the Player API, our Web Playback SDK can be used to build a frontend application that contains a fully functional web player for Spotify Premium users. In 2018, we enhanced the Player API further with the launch of our Web Playback SDK: a JavaScript SDK that enables developers to create and control a fully functional player in the browser. The Player API has been used by thousands of developers to make third-party apps for home automation, social listening, music discovery, and much more. The Spotify Connect Web API extended these innovations to the web, and it now allows developers to control Spotify playback from any internet-connected device or app. Developers used this opportunity to extend the Spotify experience into a variety of creative apps for their own personal use, for friends, and for other Spotify users. Through AppleScript, third-party developers could start or stop the music that was playing from Spotify’s Mac app and observe the title of the track that was playing. Prior to shipping the Connect Web API, Spotify offered a public interface that allowed developers to connect to Spotify’s Mac desktop application from another app running on Mac OS X.

This post presents an overview of what you can do with the API, now called the Player API, and some background information about how it came to exist. In 2017, we launched the Spotify Connect Web API, a set of tools that developers could use to programmatically start, stop, and manage Spotify audio playback from the web.

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