Intermittent 404 when using the `/v1/search` endpoint.

[dan_thomson_bbc]

Plan

Commercial

Country

UK

Device

 AWS EC2 instance

Operating System

Centos 7

My Question or Issue

Hi team 👋

We are the BBC Sounds team and we provide Spotify links to Tracks which are played in our content.

E.g: Go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001763n on the Tracklist section, click "..." and it should link to Spotify :]

To link our tracks we use the `https://api.spotify.com/v1/search` endpoint.

At 03:00BST on 3rd June (last night), we can see an increased number of 404s being returned for valid urls. In fact, I can query the same url multiple times over a given period and sometimes it will 200 OK, and every odd time it will 404. We have used this endpoint for a few years and it's behaviour isn't usually inconsistent like this, it only started at the time previously stated. Is there an issue your side?

Here is a script I run (https://pastebin.com/R0jPuvMn) to test inconsistecy.  When I write the output to a log and query the output, I can see both 200 and 404s being returned for the exact same parameters - is this expected?

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Dan Thomson (BBC Sounds)

[dan_thomson_bbc]

These issues resolved at 04:40am on the  4th June 2020. 🙌

[spotifyjosh]

I'm glad to hear this got resolved for you @dan_thomson_bbc - feel free to update this thread if you see it happening again 🙏