Get Artist's Albums API not returning all results for certain pages

[jshih468]

The end point Get Artist's Albums https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/{id}/albums when ID is 0blbVefuxOGltDBa00dspv and include_groups is album,single,compilation, returns a total of 85 albums. On the first page, it properly lists the default limit of 20 items. However, if you go to the next page link (or just add offset of 20) it only returns 1 album instead of 20. The page after that (offset 40) returns the expected 20. After that (offset 60) only returns 2. On the last page, it returns 0. Advice on how to get all albums?

[eth3792]

Similar issues here. Artist ID 0jNDKefhfSbLR9sFvcPLHo tells me there are 114 albums in total, but all results past the first 62 are empty. If I request an individual include_group, it will return 6 "album"s, 63 "single"s, 45 "appears_on"s and 0 "compilation"s, which does add up to 114. Things get weird as soon as I try combining two or more groups; with "album,appears_on" it tells me there are 51, but if I load with "limit=50&offset=50" it gives me nothing. With "limit=50&offset=1", weirdly enough, it does include the 51st entry.

Maybe for now, simply put in separate requests for each include_group and combine the results together? This seems to fix the problem for all artists I've tried it on.

Edit: also weird that all compilations appear simply as "appears_on", with album_type="compilation" in the resulting JSON object. Dunno if this was an intentional choice that just hasn't been reflected in the docs yet or if this is also a bug.

[ackmanx]

Yeah, this is royally disappointing because the entire premise of my website is based on albums being returned and it's completely unreliable.

That said, your comment "simply put in separate requests for each include_group and combine the results together" @eth3792 worked for me as well

[ackmanx]

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