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Slyknight
Slyknight

Reputation: 131

Is there a way to get the current playback time using spotify's API

I am making make a web app where I'll embed my spotify podcast episode. I need certain things to happen on my website once a certain number of seconds have been played. Is there a way to get the playback time using the API?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1656

Answers (1)

Horatiu Jeflea
Horatiu Jeflea

Reputation: 7404

Use 

/v1/me/player/currently-playing

which returns progress_ms

Example:

Request

curl -X GET "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/currently-playing" -H "Authorization: Bearer {your access token}"

Response

{
  "context": {
    "external_urls" : {
      "spotify" : "http://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/49znshcYJROspEqBoHg3Sv"
    },
    "href" : "https://api.spotify.com/v1/users/spotify/playlists/49znshcYJROspEqBoHg3Sv",
    "type" : "playlist",
    "uri" : "spotify:user:spotify:playlist:49znshcYJROspEqBoHg3Sv"
  },
  "timestamp": 1490252122574,
  "progress_ms": 44272, <------
  ...

Also take into consideration that this API is in Beta and may be subject to change without notice. (or have functional or performance issues)

API Documentation is here and here.

Upvotes: 2

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