topic Re: Playlist API Tracks endpoint does not using a Paging object for more than 100 results in Spotify for Developers

Playlist API Tracks endpoint does not using a Paging object for more than 100 results

DaveCodesTunes — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 13:51:51 GMT

Plan

Premium Family

Country

Switzerland

Device

PC, iPhone

Operating System

Windows 10 2004, iOS 13.5.1

My Question or Issue

According to https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference-beta/#endpoint-get-playlists-tracks, the /tracks endpoint of the Playlists API returns a limit of 100 items, wrapped in a Paging object.

On success, the response body contains an array of track objects and episode objects (depends on the additional_types parameter), wrapped in a paging object in JSON format and the HTTP status code in the response header is 200 OK.

However, if you try it out in the Web Console, you will see that the response body does not use a Paging object, even if there are more than 100 items on the playlist.

https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-playlist-tracks/

Instead, a simple JSON object is returned that contains an Items array of the first 100 tracks on the playlist (or whatever limit is specified).

You can use the offset parameter to get the next tracks, but you need to build the URI yourself and keep requesting more until you get an empty array back.

Re: Playlist API Tracks endpoint does not using a Paging object for more than 100 results

kingosticks4 — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 17:28:14 GMT

I can't reproduce this, I receive the expected paging object. I've verified this in my code (my code uses the paging object and still works as it always has) and also in the developer console at the link you provided.

Re: Playlist API Tracks endpoint does not using a Paging object for more than 100 results

DaveCodesTunes — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 18:20:31 GMT

Hello there! Thanks for replying.

I just re-tried it in the web console, I am still seeing the tracks returned in a flat array, no paging object.

Screenshot from the web console:

Screenshot from the docs:

Re: Playlist API Tracks endpoint does not using a Paging object for more than 100 results

kingosticks4 — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 20:01:23 GMT

You've explitly asked to only return certain fields and you've not included the paging fields.

Re: Playlist API Tracks endpoint does not using a Paging object for more than 100 results

DaveCodesTunes — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 20:29:49 GMT

Ahhh, thank you!

So, I need to tell it that I want the paging fields, otherwise I will not get them.

Thank you for the insight!