topic Re: Get many playlists in Spotify for Developers

Get many playlists

lucaswong — Thu, 04 May 2023 20:16:41 GMT

My Question or Issue

We are looking to add a feature in our application that can show playlist data after gathering playlist context from recently played tracks. We end up having many playlistIds and want to be able to get information about each of the ids. We would not be able to use the user playlists call since tracks aren't always streamed from playlists that you follow or create.

We want to be able to request for many playlists at one time to help avoid rate limiting for our spotify client. Otherwise we'd be required to call the api for each playlist individually which is certainly not ideal.

Any help or guidance on how would could accomplish this would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Get many playlists

Prague — Fri, 05 May 2023 00:51:20 GMT

Nice to sniff you, I mean meet you lucaswong!
One solution to this problem would be to use the Spotify Web API's 'Get Several Playlists endpoint' . This endpoint allows you to retrieve multiple playlists in a single call by providing a comma-separated list of playlist IDs. Here's an example request:

GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists?ids=37i9dQZF1DX3WvGXE8FqYX,37i9dQZF1DWTwnEm1IYyoj,37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M

In this example, we're requesting three playlists with the IDs '37i9dQZF1DX3WvGXE8FqYX', '37i9dQZF1DWTwnEm1IYyoj', and '37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M'. The response will include information about all three playlists.

By using this endpoint, you can retrieve information about multiple playlists in a single API call, which can help you avoid rate limiting issues.
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Re: Get many playlists

quepasta — Fri, 05 May 2023 16:57:36 GMT

Hey Prague,

I've attempted to make a request formatted as you suggested, but am getting a 404 not found error. I attempted this request using postman and curl commands with a valid bearer token.
(double checked it by using the GET playlist endpoint, https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/{playlist_id} )

Example:
Making a request to:
https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists?ids=1DXllt7ad0rpeeWmFtMzvs,4n70p7z44vW4V4rd3Serdm
results in 404.

I also did not come across an api endpoint which returns information regarding multiple playlists in the Spotify web api docs. Unless there is, in which case, could you provide me the link to them?

Thanks,

Re: Get many playlists

belltown — Fri, 05 May 2023 22:25:16 GMT

There is no 'Get Several Playlists' endpoint.