topic Re: BUG: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs in Spotify for Developers

BUG: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

JohnGemstone — Mon, 22 May 2023 22:06:44 GMT

Hey so I'm using the web-api search endpoint to query for albums, but the response I get omits any information about the album's genre/label. While in the docs and example response in the endpoint playground does show these parameters.

There seems to be a mismatch here, or a bug, because if you click Try it from the endpoint playground (shown as the right panel), the live response also omits the genre and label for each album.

The type in question is SimplifiedAlbumObject

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

Any help with this would be great as I need this information for my searches, otherwise I will have to query each individual album for this info!

Thanks!

Re: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

Gimeyochi — Sat, 20 May 2023 10:35:49 GMT

Sorry wrong topic And I couldn't find a way to delete my comment.. Good luck with your search

Re: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

JohnGemstone — Mon, 22 May 2023 14:38:32 GMT

Hey just bumping this!

As you can see the following properties are missing from the response:

Re: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

JohnGemstone — Mon, 22 May 2023 19:11:10 GMT

Oh I notice that these parameters havent got a "Required" tag. Not sure what a "Required" tag would mean in the context of a response object. Any ideas how to get these properties?

EDIT: Looks as though the required tag doesnt influence other endpoints (e.g. album), these work fine.

Re: BUG: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

dee-dee-ds — Wed, 24 May 2023 11:52:12 GMT

Hey,

I have encountered the same problem. The genres are available for Albums and Artists endpoints, but not for Tracks.

Would be great if someone could comment on this.

Best,

Dee

Re: BUG: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

JohnGemstone — Mon, 29 May 2023 19:59:48 GMT

Yeah I just tested and yes it's the same, I think the Tracks endpoint actually uses the same "SimplifiedAlbumObject" as the Search endpoint. Any response from the Spotify peeps would be great.

Cheers!

Re: BUG: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

JohnGemstone — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 15:46:49 GMT

Hi! Just bumping again.

This is really simple to reproduce, all you need to do is go to:
https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/search

Click "try it" on the query playground and try find any of the following properties in the results:

`albums.items[0].copyrights`

`albums.items[0].external_ids`

`albums.items[0].genres`

`albums.items[0].label`

`albums.items[0].popularity`

`albums.items[0].album_group`

Can anyone take a look into this or at least update the documentation to remove these properties from the schema?

Re: BUG: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

JohnGemstone — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 14:39:40 GMT

Hello! Just bumping again. Would appreciate a response from someone at spotify. Cheers!

Re: BUG: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

aspleenic — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 12:33:58 GMT

We are looking into this and will update the thread when we have more information.

Re: BUG: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

JohnGemstone — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 07:40:08 GMT

Hi @aspleenic thanks for the message, have we had any updates?

Re: BUG: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

alexantenna — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 11:04:29 GMT

This problem affects my app quite badly - any updates?

Re: BUG: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

Morganic1 — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 09:19:48 GMT

There are no genres available for albums, only for artists.

Re: BUG: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

JohnGemstone — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 09:39:04 GMT

Yep this is the issue, genre and label info is meant to be available for albums, see the SimplifiedAlbumObject definition in the documentation.

Re: BUG: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

Morganic1 — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 09:45:59 GMT

It's not a bug, it's simply not a feature that's been developed. The information simply doesn't exist yet.

The only "bug" is that the documentation is ahead of the feature.

Re: BUG: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

JohnGemstone — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 10:12:15 GMT

In my original message i say "There seems to be a mismatch here, or a bug".

A mismatch in the documentation or a bug on spotify's backend.

I'm looking for confirmation of either.
Id like part of the team to confirm.

Re: BUG: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

JohnGemstone — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 12:55:10 GMT

Hello!

For a moment I thought this was fixed, I was getting `"genres": ["Egg punk", "Noise rock"]` from the endpoint tester, but it was just the static placeholder response 🙂
Getting the genre/label for an album has a lot of uses so it would be great to get this working.

Any updates are welcome, thank you.

Re: BUG: Search API doesn't return SimplifiedAlbumObject items as described in docs

JohnGemstone — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:43:23 GMT

Docs have now been updated to reflect the actual shape of "SimplifiedAlbumObject" which unfortunately omits label and genre.

Hopefully the devs will add genre and label to search results in the future as the only way to check would be to query individual releases, which creates unnecessary load on the service.

Thanks