topic Search for Item endpoint returning wrong Artist in Spotify for Developers

Search for Item endpoint returning wrong Artist

ricknucci — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 19:44:45 GMT

I am testing out the Search for Item end point to search for artists. I am getting back the wrong artist consistently. For example:

curl --request GET \
--url 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=radiohead&type=artist&limit=1&offset=0' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer 1POdFZRZbvb...qqillRxMr2z'

returns back Thom Yorke instead of Radiohead.

{ "artists": { "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=radiohead&type=artist&locale=en-US%2Cen%3Bq%3D0.9&offset=0&limit=1", "limit": 1, "next": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=radiohead&type=artist&locale=en-US%2Cen%3Bq%3D0.9&offset=1&limit=1", "offset": 0, "previous": null, "total": 801, "items": [ { "external_urls": { "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4CvTDPKA6W06DRfBnZKrau" }, "followers": { "href": null, "total": 1079828 }, "genres": ["alternative rock", "art pop", "art rock", "electronica", "glitch pop", "indie rock", "oxford indie"], "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/4CvTDPKA6W06DRfBnZKrau", "id": "4CvTDPKA6W06DRfBnZKrau", "images": [ { "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6761610000e5ebaa834b50a2fbd31708a71681", "height": 640, "width": 640 }, { "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616100005174aa834b50a2fbd31708a71681", "height": 320, "width": 320 }, { "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6761610000f178aa834b50a2fbd31708a71681", "height": 160, "width": 160 } ], "name": "Thom Yorke", "popularity": 56, "type": "artist", "uri": "spotify:artist:4CvTDPKA6W06DRfBnZKrau" } ] } }

Re: Search for Item endpoint returning wrong Artist

AlexKinney — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:53:38 GMT

Good day,

This is an issue I faced a while ago, and it still appears to exist. Attached is the solution that worked for me. It appears that if you set the search limit to 1, it doesn't return what you want, but if you change it to 2, it somehow manages to get it correct. In the example below, I have proven with 2 artists that the best way to resolve this issue is to set the limit to 2, and extract the first artist. In the first example, a search for Radiohead, and a limit of 1 results in REM, but changing the limit to 2 results in Radiohead being the first result. This also occurs with all the other artists I tested, including Depeche Mode, which returns Duran Duran on a limit of 1; Depeche Mode on a limit of 2.

I hope this helps, and let me know if you still can't get it to work,

Alex Kinney

Re: Search for Item endpoint returning wrong Artist

Ximzend — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:10:18 GMT

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