topic Re: Problem with requesting Tracks from Album in Spotify for Developers

Problem with requesting Tracks from Album

ottic — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 17:01:33 GMT

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Premium

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Germany

Hello,

I'm developing now an app/website using the Spotify API with the low code platform N8N (n8n.io). I have a problem to get Tracks from an Album and I always get the following response:

ERROR: The service is receiving too many requests from you! Perhaps take a break? API rate limit exceeded Details Time 7/22/2021, 6:54:18 PM HTTP-Code 429 Cause Data below may contain sensitive information. Proceed with caution when sharing. { "name": "StatusCodeError", "statusCode": 429, "message": "429 - {"error":{"status":429,"message":"API rate limit exceeded"}}", "error": { "error": { "status": 429, "message": "API rate limit exceeded" } }, "options": { "timeout": 300000, "method": "GET", "headers": { "User-Agent": "n8n", "Content-Type": "text/plain", "Accept": " application/json", "Authorization": "Bearer BQCeWA7MXzh2-YRaNQHzA4b6-YClwZ9-0G6c4BmntKr4igE8-5f4wiapcvhv4PzmGMQLkSIYN3CbWETDpA3MhooSfS-6SWv_jMKpBb1JYL3s51DfevjoQPx4EGFEGKIcHJIFM0S1Vk6jRzKgVk83-hMSzb2wv6UAqF7-pEUX8Lc31tD5hKSVi9kI8rMQDs21WEGHll-j9ONgdcTeJZM_Rb_USgjPQkJuHWH53g" }, "qs": { }, "uri": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/albums/0qujii0JVDkdhkkqycvzgX/tracks", "json": true, "simple": true, "resolveWithFullResponse": false, "transform2xxOnly": false }, "response": { "statusCode": 429, "body": { "error": {...} // 2 keys }, "headers": { "access-control-allow-origin": "*", "access-control-allow-headers": "Accept, App-Platform, Authorization, Content-Type, Origin, Retry-After, Spotify-App-Version, X-Cloud-Trace-Context, client-token, content-access-token", "access-control-allow-methods": "GET, POST, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE, PATCH", "access-control-allow-credentials": "true", "access-control-max-age": "604800", "retry-after": "4", "access-control-expose-headers": "Retry-After", "content-length": "80", "strict-transport-security": "max-age=31536000", "x-content-type-options": "nosniff", "vary": "Accept-Encoding", "date": "Thu, 22 Jul 2021 16:54:17 GMT", "server": "envoy", "via": "HTTP/2 edgeproxy, 1.1 google", "alt-svc": "clear", "connection": "close" }, "request": { "uri": {...}, // 12 keys "method": "GET", "headers": {...} // 4 keys } } } Stack NodeApiError: The service is receiving too many requests from you! Perhaps take a break? at Object.spotifyApiRequest (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-nodes-base/dist/nodes/Spotify/GenericFunctions.js:25:15) at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5) at async Object.spotifyApiRequestAllItems (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-nodes-base/dist/nodes/Spotify/GenericFunctions.js:34:24) at async Object.execute (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-nodes-base/dist/nodes/Spotify/Spotify.node.js:1158:32) at async /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n8n/node_modules/n8n-core/dist/src/WorkflowExecute.js:424:47

I know that one of my scripts was out of control and for sure hit an API limit, but that is already fixed and was 1 month ago. Also all other requests are working fine and thats why I thought that this is maybe a bug and no longer a problem of the limit.

My client ID: b0e97f16d6ac43f8874e3ba8379977c6

I hope you can help with this so that I can continue my development as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance & Regards

ottic

Re: Problem with requesting Tracks from Album

ottic — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:34:49 GMT

This is not working for 5 weeks now. Can anyone take a look, so that I can continue my development?

Re: Problem with requesting Tracks from Album

Peter_Schorn — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 00:45:10 GMT

Based on the error, you're still getting rate limited. You need to find a way to reduce the number of requests you make. Note that there is a "retry-after" header which tells you how many seconds you have to wait until you retry the request. In this example, you have to wait 4 seconds.

Re: Problem with requesting Tracks from Album

ottic — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:28:46 GMT

Thanks a lot for reply. I know about the "retry-after" information. The problem is that I cannot read even 1 single item from the endpoint "Get an Album's Tracks". So there must be some other problem.

Re: Problem with requesting Tracks from Album

ottic — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 14:14:24 GMT

I really hope that there is someone out there who can help me with this subject from the Spotify staff. Or is there any E-Mail or Ticket System that I should use instead of this forum for developer problems?

Re: Problem with requesting Tracks from Album

Peter_Schorn — Tue, 03 Aug 2021 16:26:40 GMT

Why don't you post a link to your entire project?

Re: Problem with requesting Tracks from Album

ottic — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 15:43:58 GMT

The idea behind the app is to extract information about new music releases from various websites, automatically generate a Spotify playlist updates from them every week for several genres and post the generated lists on a website (+app). A preview I experimented with is available here:

https://newreleases.antibiottics.de/

Only getting Tracks from an Album is not working. The other requests to the API work fine.

It's not an IP block, I checked that already and changed the Server IP at Digital Ocean.

Re: Problem with requesting Tracks from Album

ottic — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 19:34:56 GMT

I have now found a possible reason for the problem. As mentioned before, I am using the low-code environment n8n (n8n.io). The problem arises when I have the "Return All" switch turned on in the Spotify node there.

If I set "Return 50 Tracks" instead, it works and that is enough for me to continue working.

If anyone is still interested in the problem here is a link to the N8N forum where I posted my findings.

https://community.n8n.io/t/spotify-node-possible-problem-with-get-track-from-album/7133

Thanks @ Peter_Schorn for the help.