topic Re: https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/albums returns 500 - Internal Server Error in Spotify for Developers

https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/albums returns 500 - Internal Server Error

thefunkjunky — Wed, 08 May 2024 06:57:06 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

Macbook Air M1 (via curl and Postman)

Operating System

MacOs

My Question or Issue

I am attempting to get a list of my saved albums and their respective URLs. To begin, I set up a Postman collection to get the authorization token:
Auth Type: Oauth 2.0

Auth date to : request headers

token name: access_token

grant type: client credentials

access token url: https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token

client id: *

client secret: **

scope: user-library-read

client authentication: send as basic auth header

I get the new access token and set it to the current token to be used for all spotify requests.

Header prefix : Bearer

I test it on publicly available data:

curl "https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/4Z8W4fKeB5YxbusRsdQVPb" -H "Authorization: Bearer {the token received above}"

and it works.

Then I try to get my saved albums:

curl --location 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/albums' \

--header 'limit: 50' \

--header 'Authorization: Bearer {the same access token}'

and I get a 500 error. I ALWAYS get a 500 error. The docs told me to alert Spotify if I ever get a 500 because there is something clearly going wrong with the backend code. Please help me fix this.

Thank you!

Re: https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/albums returns 500 - Internal Server Error

thefunkjunky — Wed, 08 May 2024 07:00:05 GMT

Can I edit these posts? Where's the button for that?

Anyway that authorization setting up there is supposed to be:
Add auth data to : request headers

Re: https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/albums returns 500 - Internal Server Error

Ximzend — Wed, 08 May 2024 10:32:28 GMT

Authorization and Client Credentials are two different things. You can't authorize with client credentials.

Re: https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/albums returns 500 - Internal Server Error

thefunkjunky — Wed, 08 May 2024 16:20:01 GMT

Care to explain further? I don't know what you mean. I am obtaining a token from this workflow that allows me to GET other api calls without issue. It has the scopes necessary for this API call according to the documentation. I am not getting a 4xx error about my credentials. The fact that its returning a 500 at all is a problem, the application should be catching the problem and responding with a more useful error message.

Re: https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/albums returns 500 - Internal Server Error

Ximzend — Wed, 08 May 2024 16:35:15 GMT

In your code I see grant type: client credentials

You simply can't access (your) user data with client credentials; only endpoints that don't access user data can use client credentials.

Re: https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/albums returns 500 - Internal Server Error

thefunkjunky — Wed, 08 May 2024 16:44:35 GMT

ok cool I think I'm getting the idea. so what do I do?

Re: https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/albums returns 500 - Internal Server Error

Ximzend — Wed, 08 May 2024 17:54:57 GMT

You can choose another OAutfow from this page.

If you want to run the code at a back-end server, you can use the Authorization code flow.

If you want to run all the code inside your browser, you should use the Authorization code with PKCE extension.