topic Re: API shows duplicate albums in Spotify for Developers

API shows duplicate albums

user-removed — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 05:45:22 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Mexico

Device

Linux computer running pop os

Operating System

Linux computer running pop os

My Question or Issue

Some artists show duplicate albums when queried through the API.

Endpoint:

https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/{id}/albums

Sample request Request:

https://artists/6Wr3hh341P84m3EI8qdn9O/albums?include_groups=album&market=ES&limit=50&offset=0

Duplicated albums are shown here

Funny thing is: The web app does not show these duplicates

Re: API shows duplicate albums

Netlob — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 18:34:43 GMT

The total_duration_in_minutes is not the same so I think there are some differences. Are the album ids the same? And the album types?

Re: API shows duplicate albums

Peter_Schorn — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 00:28:51 GMT

Did you read the documentation? The documentation for the market parameter clearly says:

"If not given, results will be returned for all markets and you are likely to get duplicate results per album, one for each market in which the album is available!"

Re: API shows duplicate albums

accio009 — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:51:19 GMT

I've got the same issue specifing market as US. The example I just ran into is Bring me the horizon, API shows multiple duplicated albums for US

Re: API shows duplicate albums

coderturk — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 14:51:59 GMT

same problem for TR

Re: API shows duplicate albums

Simone97 — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 22:47:56 GMT

Same error, try this url and see that you will get a duplicated track:

'https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=Con+te&type=artist%2Cplaylist%2Ctrack&market=IT&limit=16&offset=0'