Different resume_point values from GetShowEpisodes and GetEpisode endpoints

[MartinKilonzo]

TL;DR

GetShowEpisodes is often returning the wrong Episode.resume_point.fully_played value; GetEpisode is working as expected.

My Question or Issue

I use Spotify API to generate an specifically ordered list of Podcast episodes each day. I noticed as of about a week ago, that the API is not returning the correct value of Episode.resume_point.fully_played via GetShowEpisodes. The value often disagrees with the Episode.resume_point.fully_played value fetched from GetEpisode (which matches the value shown in the Spotify Client UI).

Reproduction Steps

1. Get a show's episodes via GetShowEpisodes API (you can use the browser's demo tool). Use a show for which you have some fully played episodes and some that aren't.
2. Notice that some episode's fully_played value are incorrect.
3. Check the Episode's fully_played values via GetEpisodes (you can use the browser's demo tool) and notice it being correct.

[MartinKilonzo]

Here are my findings from manually comparing GetEpisodes and GetEpisode. (When calling GetEpisodes, I made a single request with all the IDs. When calling GetEpisode, I made a separate request for each ID.)

GetEpisode is consistent with the Web Client (open.spotify.com). GetEpisodes is inconsistent and shows no clear pattern as to how.

	Web API	Web API	Web Client UI
ID	GetEpisodes	GetEpisode	Visual
4S3cOcLJ8DwMzYHF5vwnij	TRUE	FALSE	FALSE
0syG09AlgmFcKdah2tf0dL	TRUE	FALSE	FALSE
6MWSAYOuG6JFhRCBNcbogi	TRUE	FALSE	FALSE
7qpML50L5cnsmpBGpyTfvt	FALSE	TRUE	TRUE
22aCQYNHfGDBGyRoIzz6wU	FALSE	TRUE	TRUE
6J6mHP5tUKnU88pdpWKRrX	TRUE	FALSE	FALSE
5fEDDPYAndyv0AlTnZKhZW	FALSE	FALSE	FALSE
3ScNBS8iIHBmWkvjm0EHf6	TRUE	TRUE	TRUE
3aYsTEhxDk0JhSP3Q4k18y	FALSE	TRUE	TRUE
0RJkeUmIoYJLQCNv6BIriE	TRUE	TRUE	TRUE
74KrRYacnxrIz66HoSeYQP	FALSE	TRUE	TRUE
3d5YevCIRQ2SBlEyZVh8VP	FALSE	TRUE	TRUE
3HwO3TZP43b3eSD2hYO9Ht	TRUE	FALSE	FALSE
7n8iYfUrdXOootL0FDtW9C	FALSE	TRUE	TRUE
3b0kfMpE2Kf9Hm8ZG3goEA	FALSE	TRUE	TRUE
53Y6s34zijXWUsDVp1ZZNp	TRUE	TRUE	TRUE
0Sih1ZHVhazyF1nxAv9IbF	FALSE	TRUE	TRUE
1yzkMSxD6AEUf25xQ5YTFt	TRUE	TRUE	TRUE
4yImdvRtmN3IB0IHffuJiE	TRUE	FALSE	FALSE
7FAWp748B0Sqew35qe9EZE	FALSE	FALSE	FALSE
3V7H2TTNUp9g3ZOYIfgKoY	FALSE	FALSE	FALSE
54aFqPeRYJ0r8bSlAQVmMe	TRUE	FALSE	FALSE
2BSnxvptoydYyJhDNqLEWF	TRUE	FALSE	FALSE
4vPWYFE3zN1gI1V7cxxp74	TRUE	FALSE	FALSE
7arMcoEhZRJUKNx7HJbjOh	FALSE	TRUE	TRUE

[MartinKilonzo]

Lately, however, whenever I call GetEpisodes or GetEpisode outside of the web client, I do not get any resume_point data. I think there's another bug here.

[MartinKilonzo]

The no 'resume_point data' in the previous reply has "magically" been fixed, but the main issue is still relevant.

[LambertSpot · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the detailed report, this helped us reproduce the problem. We will post an update in this thread when we have a fix in place.

[MartinKilonzo]

This looks like this was fixed in the other thread 🙂

I also confirmed that the GetEpisode, GetEpisodes, and GetShowEpisodes endpoints are all returning the same `resume_point` values 🙂

Thanks again for the fix!