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by Maxion 1052 days ago
Seems to ask for quite a lot of data:

> Your email > The type of Spotify subscription you have, your account country and your settings for explicit content filtering > Your name and username, your profile picture, how many followers you have on Spotify and your public playlists

> Take actions in Spotify on your behalf > Create, edit, and follow private playlists > Create, edit, and follow playlists

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Hey, thanks for the feedback. Sign-in and saving to a profile was the most requested feature across the board when I previously launched Selecta, and as such it needs access to enable features that were requested by those who enjoyed using it.

I'd be more than happy to share what each of those datapoints is used for (and, in some cases where I only need an auth scope for one permission, but they're grouped together). Selecta is strictly open-source and anonymous analytics.

You can find the auth scopes I use in this file: https://github.com/knightspore/selecta/blob/main/src/app/api...

and the related access they provide here: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/concepts...