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		jscholes on Oct 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists o... > As we don’t use the official Spotify SDK, we’re not bound to their Terms of Service. I'm not sure how this can be true. Their terms of service specifically ban users from reverse engineering unofficial parts of the product. Either way, I'd be interested to know how it actually works.

burgerzzz on Oct 14, 2020 | [–]

Isn't there an online version of Spotify? Doesn't seem like it would be overly complex to login with the users credentials and scrape the data, much like how some of the federated banking APIs work.

LocalH on Oct 18, 2020 | [–]

You have to actually agree to the terms (either through website or SDK usage) in order to be bound by them. IANAL

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