topic Re: Getting error 429 only when requesting audio features from a track in Spotify for Developers

Getting error 429 only when requesting audio features from a track

Tonetron — Wed, 24 May 2023 17:36:37 GMT

I'm basically working with the API for a data mining university project.
I'm getting error 429 on a piece of code that extracts the audio features from some tracks. Can't perform a single request, the first one gets automatically blocked.

The thing is that I don't get 429 when running another piece of code that uses the same exact client id / secret token (this one extracts all the tracks from some playlists).

It looks like I'm just blocked from performing audio feature requests.

Re: Getting error 429 only when requesting audio features from a track

eldonvez — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 14:53:40 GMT

I've got the same problem. Actually seemed to work fine yesterday night (in batches of 100) but now today it fails for even a single request. As OP said, other requests (fetching user library songs in batches of 50 for instance) still work fine, with the same id/secret token pair. It's driving me nuts.

Re: Getting error 429 only when requesting audio features from a track

Tonetron — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 15:31:37 GMT

I eventually got around the problem by using other machines (in this case it was a matter of time until I was blocked on those too) and by using google colab to run my code for a few days, which is not optimal for every case but for my project it worked just fine as I never got blocked there

Re: Getting error 429 only when requesting audio features from a track

Ximzend — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:07:31 GMT

I've read recently that someone solved it by rotating their client secret.

Re: Getting error 429 only when requesting audio features from a track

Tonetron — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:17:43 GMT

Didn't work for me at the time

Re: Getting error 429 only when requesting audio features from a track

Peter_Schorn — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:48:04 GMT

A 429 status code indicates that your app has been rate-limited. See this article for more information.

Rate-limiting applies on a per-client id basis (as opposed to, for example, a per-Spotify user basis). This explains why rotating your client id will increase your effective rate limit.

Re: Getting error 429 only when requesting audio features from a track

sam275 — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:06:08 GMT

Having the same problem and looking for any clarity, resetting the client secret doesn't seem to be working. Will the audio feature rate limit for these creds reset after a certain amount of time or are they cooked?

Re: Getting error 429 only when requesting audio features from a track

stefanobras — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:57:56 GMT

Any solution? I have the same problem where my code was running just fine until it suddenly kept getting 429 errors in the same random line of fetching small amounts of data and it just seems like I've been blocked or something.

Re: Getting error 429 only when requesting audio features from a track

jmaloto1 — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:48:27 GMT

Hey did you ever figure it out?

Re: Getting error 429 only when requesting audio features from a track

l1ke_a_l1ght — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:18:09 GMT

Hey, Is anyone fix it?
have the same problem