/recommendations invalid request, status 400

kamiloox — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 09:34:55 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Poland

Operating System

Linux pop-os

My Question or Issue

I am using /recommendations route. In most cases it works pretty well. But sometimes when i provide more data it responds with invalid request and status 400. It doesn't work correctly in my app and in developer console too.

This request below returns error with message: "invalid request", status: 400.

https://api.spotify.com/v1/recommendations?limit=10&market=PL&seed_artists=4NHQUGzhtTLFvgF5SZesLK%2C5FF8xJSW4qUVU8bk79KYLT&seed_genres=classical%2Ccountry&seed_tracks=0c6xIDDpzE81m2q797ordA%2C2Q9nA56DKKJhj4cHMbHlAS

In the above example i have two two seed_artists, seed_tracks and seed_genres each. I noticed that when i remove one seed e.g. from seed_genres then request works.

https://api.spotify.com/v1/recommendations?limit=10&market=PL&seed_artists=4NHQUGzhtTLFvgF5SZesLK%2C5FF8xJSW4qUVU8bk79KYLT&seed_genres=classical&seed_tracks=0c6xIDDpzE81m2q797ordA%2C2Q9nA56DKKJhj4cHMbHlAS

And it's not related to specific seed, I can even remove one artist from seed_artist. This again works correctly, and responds with result.

https://api.spotify.com/v1/recommendations?limit=10&market=PL&seed_artists=4NHQUGzhtTLFvgF5SZesLK&seed_genres=classical%2Ccountry&seed_tracks=0c6xIDDpzE81m2q797ordA%2C2Q9nA56DKKJhj4cHMbHlAS

Same story is with seed_tracks.

Am I doing something wrong or is it a bug? I appreciate all help.

Re: /recommendations invalid request, status 400

Peter_Schorn — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 07:25:05 GMT

The total number of seed artists, seed tracks, and seed genres must add up to 5 or less.

Re: /recommendations invalid request, status 400

kamiloox — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 07:55:49 GMT

Oh I see. I didn't understand this correctly. I thought that i can provide 5 seeds each so up to 15 in total. Anyway thanks much for help.

Re: /recommendations invalid request, status 400

oridolores — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:38:53 GMT

Thanks for the help!
Any plans to increase seed track limit in the api?

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