Spotify Web API Rate Limits and Endpoint Deprecation Hurt Third-Party Clients
Third-party Spotify clients depend on shared developer app quotas that get rate limited, while Spotify keeps deprecating endpoints. The workaround relies on undocumented internal APIs that could break at any time.
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