`Get Artist` API endpoint responds with result in inconsistent format

[Lenny-Led]

Hi all, I've found the following inconsistency in API endpoint response format:

when I request the endpoint Get Track, I get the response formatted pretty and all integer values are presented like the should be (without any floating points):

$ curl -s --request GET \
--url "https://api.spotify.com/v1/tracks/11dFghVXANMlKmJXsNCbNl" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

{
"album" : {
"album_type" : "single",
"artists" : [ {
"external_urls" : {
"spotify" : "https://open.spotify.com/artist/6sFIWsNpZYqfjUpaCgueju"
},
"href" : "https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/6sFIWsNpZYqfjUpaCgueju",
"id" : "6sFIWsNpZYqfjUpaCgueju",
"name" : "Carly Rae Jepsen",
"type" : "artist",
"uri" : "spotify:artist:6sFIWsNpZYqfjUpaCgueju"
} ],
"available_markets" : [ ],
"external_urls" : {
"spotify" : "https://open.spotify.com/album/0tGPJ0bkWOUmH7MEOR77qc"
},
"href" : "https://api.spotify.com/v1/albums/0tGPJ0bkWOUmH7MEOR77qc",
"id" : "0tGPJ0bkWOUmH7MEOR77qc",
"images" : [ {
"height" : 640,
"url" : "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2737359994525d219f64872d3b1",
"width" : 640
}, {
"height" : 300,
"url" : "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e027359994525d219f64872d3b1",
"width" : 300
}, {
"height" : 64,
"url" : "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d000048517359994525d219f64872d3b1",
"width" : 64
} ],
"name" : "Cut To The Feeling",
"release_date" : "2017-05-26",
"release_date_precision" : "day",
"total_tracks" : 1,
"type" : "album",
"uri" : "spotify:album:0tGPJ0bkWOUmH7MEOR77qc"
},
"artists" : [ {
"external_urls" : {
"spotify" : "https://open.spotify.com/artist/6sFIWsNpZYqfjUpaCgueju"
},
"href" : "https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/6sFIWsNpZYqfjUpaCgueju",
"id" : "6sFIWsNpZYqfjUpaCgueju",
"name" : "Carly Rae Jepsen",
"type" : "artist",
"uri" : "spotify:artist:6sFIWsNpZYqfjUpaCgueju"
} ],
"available_markets" : [ ],
"disc_number" : 1,
"duration_ms" : 207959,
"explicit" : false,
"external_ids" : {
"isrc" : "USUM71703861"
},
"external_urls" : {
"spotify" : "https://open.spotify.com/track/11dFghVXANMlKmJXsNCbNl"
},
"href" : "https://api.spotify.com/v1/tracks/11dFghVXANMlKmJXsNCbNl",
"id" : "11dFghVXANMlKmJXsNCbNl",
"is_local" : false,
"name" : "Cut To The Feeling",
"popularity" : 0,
"preview_url" : null,
"track_number" : 1,
"type" : "track",
"uri" : "spotify:track:11dFghVXANMlKmJXsNCbNl"
}%

Same with the other API endpoints and this is OK.

But when I request Get Artist endpoint, then I get the response in a kind of raw form (not formatted with new line characters and extra spaces) where integer values are presented like float point numbers:

$ curl -s --request GET \
--url "https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists?ids=5K4W6rqBFWDnAN6FQUkS6x" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

{"artists":[{"external_urls":{"spotify":"https://open.spotify.com/artist/5K4W6rqBFWDnAN6FQUkS6x"},"followers":{"href":null,"total":2.3015237E7},"genres":["chicago rap","hip hop","rap"],"href":"https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/5K4W6rqBFWDnAN6FQUkS6x","id":"5K4W6rqBFWDnAN6FQUkS6x","images":[{"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6761610000e5eb867008a971fae0f4d913f63a","height":640.0,"width":640.0},{"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616100005174867008a971fae0f4d913f63a","height":320.0,"width":320.0},{"url":"https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6761610000f178867008a971fae0f4d913f63a","height":160.0,"width":160.0}],"name":"Kanye West","popularity":91.0,"type":"artist","uri":"spotify:artist:5K4W6rqBFWDnAN6FQUkS6x"}]}% 

This is probably an inconsistency in the API endpoints behaviour - please pay some attention.

Plan

Premium

Country

Poland

[ZackAttax]

The correct curl to get an art is:

$ curl -s --request GET \
--url "https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/5K4W6rqBFWDnAN6FQUkS6x" \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN"

you don't need to have an `ids` param

[Lenny-Led]

You can use the both paths (api.spotify.com/v1/artists/<artist_id> or api.spotify.com/v1/artists?ids=<artist_ids>) - it doesn't matter in this case as the format inconsistency in the responses is still there.

[Ximzend]

There seems to be a problem with the Get Artist(s) endpoint. Different users are reporting problems about it returning floats instead of integers.

[Testf45rgf5rg]

Yeah im having the same problem and spotify doesnt address it or comment on it! 

[ZackAttax]

Well, they did have 3 massive layoffs this year.

Add a `ME TOO` to the issue

[tmstn]

I am getting this issue too on the https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists endpoint. 

[SLAzurin]

Me too

I am also having this issue where the integer values become floating point.

I am using the Get Track endpoint.

The fields include: image width and height, album disc number, duration ms, track number and popularity

[amirlasalle]

Im getting a :
'name': artist_response['name'],
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^
KeyError: 'name'

error. i dont really understand why since it was working for a while before, but since this morning I tried to figure out the issuse and nothing I could do so far. If anyone knows a way to fix this let me know I would appreciate it. I am using django and react.

class CurrentArtist(APIView😞

def get(self, request, format=None😞

room_code = self.request.session.get('room_code')

room = Room.objects.filter(code=room_code).first()

if not room:

return Response({'error': 'Room not found'}, status=status.HTTP_404_NOT_FOUND)

host = room.host

endpoint = "me/player/currently-playing"

response = execute_spotify_api_request(host, endpoint)

if 'error' in response or 'item' not in response:

return Response({}, status=status.HTTP_204_NO_CONTENT)

artist_info = []

for artist in response['item']['artists']:

artist_id = artist['id']

artist_endpoint = f"artists/{artist_id}"

artist_response = execute_spotify_api_request(host, artist_endpoint)

if 'error' not in artist_response:

artist_data = {

'name': artist_response['name'],

'followers': artist_response['followers']['total'],

'popularity': artist_response['popularity'],

'type': artist_response['type'],

'uri': artist_response['uri'],

'href': f"https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/{artist_id}"

}

if artist_response['images']:

image_url = artist_response['images'][0]['url']

artist_data['image_url'] = image_url

else:

artist_data['image_url'] = None

artist_info.append(artist_data)

return Response(artist_info, status=status.HTTP_200_OK)