Spotify Web API: How to get genres from TrackObject in playlist

rishii — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 19:48:03 GMT

I am using the Spotify Web API through Python. I am currently extracting tracks from a playlist. With that in mind, I also wanted to get the genres for each song.

My first question is if there's a way to a genre for a specific song? At the moment, I don't think there is but I could be mistaken.

Assuming there wasn't, I tried to get the genres for a song by keying in to each track. However, I noticed that there is no genre's key for any of the songs. I am using the the Top 100 songs, so I'd assume that these songs would have a genre.

Here's what the 'artist' key returns for a given artist in a given song:

[{'external_urls': {'spotify': 'https://open.spotify.com/artist/2LIk90788K0zvyj2JJVwkJ'}, 'href': 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/2LIk90788K0zvyj2JJVwkJ', 'id': '2LIk90788K0zvyj2JJVwkJ', 'name': 'Jack Harlow', 'type': 'artist', 'uri': 'spotify:artist:2LIk90788K0zvyj2JJVwkJ'}]

This is the documentation I was looking at:

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-playlists-tracks

Re: Spotify Web API: How to get genres from TrackObject in playlist

Ximzend — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 05:56:09 GMT

The Get Several Artists endpoint provides genres.

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Spotify Web API: How to get genres from TrackObject in playlist

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