topic Re: release date discrepancy in Spotify for Developers

release date discrepancy

Baxy — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 16:53:30 GMT

I have print code for the release date (print("Data premiery:", release_date)). There is a different date in spotify and different in print for the same release.

Release: https://open.spotify.com/album/1CSWCjpem975OAr1HyOE7M

Release date in spotify: 2023-08-25

Release date from API: 2023-08-18

Where does this discrepancy come from? Maybe there is a different object for the release date that shows in spotify?

Re: release date discrepancy

Prague — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 19:56:02 GMT

Tail wagging hello to you Baxy!

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any official statement from Spotify regarding this issue. From what I can see it seems like there might be an issue with the data source you're using to fetch the release date. Spotify's API and the web interface should ideally display the same release date for an album. Double-check your API request and ensure you're using the correct endpoint to retrieve the release date. Make sure you're handling time zones properly as well.
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Re: release date discrepancy

Baxy — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 11:17:32 GMT

Indeed, it turned out that I had a bug in the code that was incorrectly assigning a release ID to the release date check. Thanks for the help.

Re: release date discrepancy

Prague — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 00:08:13 GMT

Pawsitively my pleasure!