topic Re: recently played pagination problem in Spotify for Developers

recently played pagination problem

tyro2001 — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 19:08:11 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

USA

Device

iMac

Operating System

macOS Sonoma 14.5

My Question or Issue

I call the following command in a loop. it should stop when response['next'] is NULL:

response = sp.current_user_recently_played(limit=50, after=int(cutoff_time.timestamp() * 1000)

unfortunately response['next'] is never NULL. I just sends the same URL that shows the same three songs over and over again.

any ideas?

thanks,

-Skipper

Ximzend — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:37:55 GMT

Hi Skipper,

The Get Recently Played Tracks feature can only retrieve up to 50 of the most recent tracks, even with paging.

I hope this clarifies your question. Let me know if you have any others.

tyro2001 — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:39:24 GMT

Hey there - I think those are two separate issues. Even if I pull the max number available, shouldn’t next be set to NULL?

Thx!

Ximzend — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 15:40:59 GMT

Hey,

I agree that it should not provide next when there are no more tracks to get. The Devs should look into it.

tyro2001 — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 16:13:24 GMT

It is still a problem if I set the limit to 1. Just goes into an infinite loop.