topic Re: https://api.spotify.com/v1/search cannot return the correct number of total results in Spotify for Developers

https://api.spotify.com/v1/search cannot return the correct number of total results

flask12 — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 04:30:47 GMT

https://api.spotify.com/v1/search cannot return the correct number of total results

when using the https://api.spotify.com/v1/search endpoint to search, with limit and offset set to be 20 and 0 respectively, the "total" will always be 20.
But if the offset is set to be 21 or more, the "total" will be more than 20.

Re: https://api.spotify.com/v1/search cannot return the correct number of total results

felix-hilden — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 09:42:13 GMT

Hi, here to say that I've had the same problem for a few days now. Glad to see it posted here!

To add to the problem of the result's total being off, the paging navigation is also broken.

Re: https://api.spotify.com/v1/search cannot return the correct number of total results

noidontwantto — Sat, 17 Oct 2020 16:22:16 GMT

Same problem here! I just tweeted at the Spotify Platform account about it...

On calls to /search endpoint, the "total" number of search results when offset=0 is always equal to my supplied "limit" value.

It seems to go up on subsequent offset pages.

Weird bug! Has been happening in my case at least since last night, possibly longer.

For example, a search for "asdf" usually returns dozens of results... right now it's only 3, because my limit is 3. If I increase my limit, the total will go up correspondingly.

Re: https://api.spotify.com/v1/search cannot return the correct number of total results

kkhal — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 10:26:04 GMT

Same here, just noticed today, certainly not a problem more than 2 or 3 days ago.
no pagination/total: limit=20, offset=20
no pagination/total: limit=10, offset=10 (or 20 or anything)
OK: limit=50, offset=0
OK: limit=20, offset>=20 (offset of 20 seems to be OK as well as 21+)
OK: limit=25, offset>=7 (no pagination with offset=5 and invalid offset error with offset=6)

Re: https://api.spotify.com/v1/search cannot return the correct number of total results

spotifyjosh — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:39:19 GMT

Thanks for letting us know about this, folks! We resolved an issue involving the Search API earlier today. Are you still seeing problems with this now?

Re: https://api.spotify.com/v1/search cannot return the correct number of total results

noidontwantto — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 14:57:59 GMT

Seems to be working for me now. Thanks for the update!

Re: https://api.spotify.com/v1/search cannot return the correct number of total results

kkhal — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:10:54 GMT

Thanks Josh - yes, this seems to be fixed now.