https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Search-doesn-t-work-anymore-on-API/m-p/5630951#M10602 <P>I have an app that searches for a specific artist to retrieve some information. However, I've encountered a peculiar issue when attempting to fetch an artist using the Spotify API.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>For instance, when I use the URL (<A href="https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=Drake&amp;type=artist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=Drake&amp;type=artist</A>) in POSTMAN, the first result I receive is an artist named "Draken" instead of "Drake" (see image 1).</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="spotifBug.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/162088i8BC7CBB562308F9F/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="spotifBug.png" alt="spotifBug.png" /></span><BR /><BR /></P><P>What makes this problem even stranger is that when I use the same URL on the Spotify API reference page (<A href="https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/search" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/search</A>), it works correctly and returns the correct artist "Drake" (see image 2).</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="spotifyBug2.png" style="width: 598px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/162089i7C150A8D4CD8F4B1/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="spotifyBug2.png" alt="spotifyBug2.png" /></span><BR /><BR /></P><P>Furthermore, this issue has only recently surfaced. I did not encounter this problem the last time I used my app, which was approximately three months ago.</P> Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:21:56 GMT QuentinDucou 2023-09-05T15:21:56Z https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Search-doesn-t-work-anymore-on-API/m-p/5630951#M10602 <P>I have an app that searches for a specific artist to retrieve some information. However, I've encountered a peculiar issue when attempting to fetch an artist using the Spotify API.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>For instance, when I use the URL (<A href="https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=Drake&amp;type=artist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=Drake&amp;type=artist</A>) in POSTMAN, the first result I receive is an artist named "Draken" instead of "Drake" (see image 1).</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="spotifBug.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/162088i8BC7CBB562308F9F/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="spotifBug.png" alt="spotifBug.png" /></span><BR /><BR /></P><P>What makes this problem even stranger is that when I use the same URL on the Spotify API reference page (<A href="https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/search" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/search</A>), it works correctly and returns the correct artist "Drake" (see image 2).</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="spotifyBug2.png" style="width: 598px;"><img src="https://community.spotify.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/162089i7C150A8D4CD8F4B1/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="spotifyBug2.png" alt="spotifyBug2.png" /></span><BR /><BR /></P><P>Furthermore, this issue has only recently surfaced. I did not encounter this problem the last time I used my app, which was approximately three months ago.</P> Tue, 05 Sep 2023 15:21:56 GMT https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Search-doesn-t-work-anymore-on-API/m-p/5630951#M10602 QuentinDucou 2023-09-05T15:21:56Z