topic Re: Unannounced endpoint request limit change in Spotify for Developers

Unannounced endpoint request limit change

aderpynarwhal — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:52:34 GMT

Hi! I have a project that periodically runs some api requests. Recently, I've started getting unexpected 400 responses involving the limit for the artists/{id}/albums endpoint. I did some research and noticed that the /search endpoint had its limit per request dropped from 50 to 10, but there was nothing I could find stating the limit for other endpoints was also affected. Did I miss something? Am I just goofing? I'd love any sort of clarification!

Re: Unannounced endpoint request limit change

AdamusEsq — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:33:25 GMT

Looks like the change must have been made back in February, but it was not explicitly mentioned in the change log or migration guide.

January 19 (shows the original limits): https://web.archive.org/web/20260119160131/developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-an-artists-albums

February 13 (current version with the current limits): https://web.archive.org/web/20260213080405/developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-an-artists-albums

Re: Unannounced endpoint request limit change

aderpynarwhal — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:09:47 GMT

That's obnoxious at best and incredibly scummy when it isn't mentioned. Not to mention it seems like overall rate limits were lowered significantly. I might genuinely migrate to another music api platform, the current state of spotify's api isn't worth it, even if it was still free. Borderline unusable for anything meaningful.