How to exclude fields from the results of a Web API call

[VTGroup]

I want to pull just the artist name and track name using the "https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/{playlist_id}/tracks" call. The documentation says "Fields can be excluded by prefixing them with an exclamation mark", so I've tried to narrow down the results to just the two name fields. But no syntax I try with "!" seems to work.  As an example, I thought "&fields=items(track(album(artists(name,!href)),name))" would exclude "href", but it returns 400 ""Error parsing parameter: fields".  What am I misunderstanding?

[Hubo]

Hey there, help's here!

Hmm, could you try to use this syntax: "fields=tracks.items(track(name,href,album(name,!href)))"? (tracks.items instead of 'items') Let me know if that helps here!

Have a great day!
Hubo

[VTGroup]

Thank you for the help. Unfortunately, it didn't change anything.

Here's a more complete example, so maybe you'll see something else. (I wasn't completely sure which IDs are public and which ones are private, so I've replaced them all by <ID>.)

First, a working example and one of the results:

curl -X "GET" "https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/<ID>/tracks?offset=0&limit=100&fields=items(track(album(artists(name)),name))" -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN>"

{
    "track" : {
      "album" : {
        "artists" : [ {
          "external_urls" : {
            "spotify" : "https://open.spotify.com/artist/<id>"
          },
          "href" : "https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/<id>",
          "id" : "<id>",
          "name" : "Volbeat",
          "type" : "artist",
          "uri" : "spotify:artist:<id>"
        } ]
      },
      "name" : "Lola Montez"
    }
  },

Since I don't want external_urls, href, etc., I tried adding "!href" as a test. But it failed as below.

curl -X "GET" "https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/<ID>/tracks?offset=0&limit=100&fields=items(track(album(artists(name,!href)),name))" -H "Accept: application/json" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Authorization: Bearer <TOKEN>"

{
  "error" : {
    "status" : 400,
    "message" : "Error parsing parameter: fields"
  }
}

[Peter_Schorn]

Use this syntax:

curl --location --request GET 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/<playlist id>/tracks?fields=items(track(artists(name),name))' --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>