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API Access Tokens return different results

API Access Tokens return different results

Hi, I'm using the Spotify Web API to search for songs (https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-search-item)

 

I have a Client ID/Secret and I wrote Python code to retrieve an access_token using the https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token endpoint. This works fine, I am able to retrieve an access token. Now I tried to search for the following song:

Worry No More (feat. Lil Yachty & Santigold)

I pass "Worry No More (feat. Lil Yachty & Santigold)" as q, and "track" as type. I get 0 results. 

 

So I went to https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-search-item and entered the same parameters but I was able to see the expected results. So I took the access_token given to me on the Web Console for the Search Endpoint and used it in my code (instead of requesting a token using my client credentials) and it worked, I got the expected results.

 

For some reason the token given to me by https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token (using client credentials) was not able to return results for that song, but the token provided by the Web Console worked fine. Why am I facing this issue?

 

I have also asked this question on StackOverflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64290526/spotify-tokens-return-different-results-for-the-same-qu...)

 

Thanks!

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