topic Re: Search - missing results in Spotify for Developers

Search - missing results

kalleaboo — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 08:28:11 GMT

I am building an app where you search for albums by artist and / or album name.

Most queries work as expected. But I have a case where using Spotify console I get correct results but the same query in my app returns completely different.

Developer console returns correct:

https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-search-item/?q=artist:nationalteatern&type=album

Query in my app (.NET) returns only three results.

https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=artist%3Anationalteatern&type=album

Any theories?

Re: Search - missing results

_milena — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 09:46:58 GMT

Hi!

As you are not providing a market for this query, it might be getting it from the user's the access token belongs to, and maybe there's only 3 albums available on that market. For us, our default market is US.

Re: Search - missing results

kalleaboo — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 12:15:25 GMT

Hi!
Thanks for your response, this was indeed the issue. Is it possible to somehow specify "all" ?

Re: Search - missing results

_milena — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 12:35:53 GMT

No. As we are willing to provide only available content to the user.