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spotify search function not working

MikeHoogeveen — Thu, 11 May 2023 16:07:18 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Netherlands

Operating System

Windows 10

My Question or Issue

i use the spotipy library to use python to get metadata about albums. i use the searhc function to find the albums but now everytime my script gets at the search it does not continue and it basically freezes. i hae attached a wordfile with a screenshot how it looks. the other functions like artist_albums work fine. it is specifically the search function.

anybody have any idea how to fix this?

Re: spotify search function not working

Ximzend — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:19:17 GMT

Can you please upload your code as a .txt file or copy and paste the text of the failing code into the question. It's difficult to run code from an image.

Re: spotify search function not working

MikeHoogeveen — Thu, 11 May 2023 16:56:51 GMT

here is the text file with the code. did not add my own credentials.

Re: spotify search function not working

Ximzend — Thu, 11 May 2023 17:19:08 GMT

Thank you for providing the code.

I can't find any bugs in your code (it ran for me), so I think it is/was an error on Spotify's end.

Can you check if your code runs at the moment and check if the demo at the bottom of the following page runs for you?

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/search

Re: spotify search function not working

MikeHoogeveen — Fri, 12 May 2023 13:13:33 GMT

i tried it again and it worked this morning but when i tried the search function in a loop the same problem happened after a while. it prints the artist and album every iteration and it just hanged after a while and after killing the terminal the search gives nothing back again. is there some sort of limit in the amount you can search within a certain time period?

Re: spotify search function not working

Ximzend — Fri, 12 May 2023 16:06:54 GMT

You can read about rate limits here: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/concepts/rate-limits

Re: spotify search function not working

HJRockz — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 14:51:19 GMT

hi! were you ever able to solve this? having the same problem