topic Re: preview_url is null when calling api from local in Spotify for Developers

preview_url is null when calling api from local

tanimuuuu — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 07:05:18 GMT

Country : JP

My Question or Issue

When I call the "Get a track" API from the Spotify Console (https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-track/), it returns a preview_url correctly.
However, when I copy the curl command shown in the Spotify Console and run it in the terminal on my PC, the preview_url is null for some songs.

Example curl command is
```
curl -X "GET" "https://api.spotify.com/v1/tracks/44Ljlpy44mHvLJxcYUvTK0?market=JP" -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer XXX"
```

The token I used in the above curl request is the token I got from our service using User Authorization.
When we used the token we got from "OAuth Token > GET TOKEN" in the Spotify Console, we were able to get the preview_url correctly with the curl command.

Are there any restrictions based on the access region, or are there access restrictions for each token?
I would like to know the cause of not being able to get the preview_url.

Thanks!

Re: preview_url is null when calling api from local

djk-tel — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 09:30:38 GMT

You’ll find this with many of your track requests. It doesn’t always return a preview URL. Even though when you access that track in the app or the web it works.

i have developed a work around to fetch any missing previewURLs from a trackURI

Re: preview_url is null when calling api from local

Relisora — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 13:22:03 GMT

@djk-tel may I ask you what the work around is? I also noticed this behavior and would need to fetch the preview_url from the spotify player in the case it is `null` in the API response.

Re: preview_url is null when calling api from local

rnnyrrk — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:03:18 GMT

Can you share your workaround? Facing the same issue