Intermittent 404s Getting Playlist Tracks via API

[th3xer0]

Starting about two days ago, I began to see intermittent 404s when getting playlist tracks via the Spotify API (https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/*/tracks).  I have seen this when iterating over large playlists via the offset and limit parameters, collecting 100 tracks at a time.  Re-sending some of the failing requests (identical requests) can yield 200s at a later time.

It's possible this is an improperly responding rate limit (that shouldn't be returning 404s) or some sort of load-balancing / request routing confusion.

Example URL:

https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/PLAYLIST_ID_HERE/tracks?offset=1600&limit=100&additional_types=track

Interesting Response Headers:

'Content-Length': '0',

'server': 'envoy',

'Via': 'HTTP/2 edgeproxy, 1.1 google',

'date': 'Mon, 21 Mar 2022 03:40:18 GMT',

[serahrono]

Hey!

Thanks for reporting this - we'll investigate and respond when we get to the bottom of it.

[th3xer0]

For whatever it's worth, I have not noticed this behavior in roughly the last 24 hours.

[user528]

Any updates on this topic? I'm having the same issue since 10th of april.

Playlist track requests and track info requests randomly return a 404 whilst the ID exists. If I send the same requests on a later moment, a 200 response is returned.

I'm using my app for several months without problems untill now.

[_jkulak]

Same here, I keep seeing random 404 when requesting artists, albums and tracks.

Simply adding a retry in the code, just after the failed request solves the issue 🤷🏽 So seems like an API issue.

[jeroenb2020]

I am also getting the same behaviour when trying to get artist albums, the behavior is random/flaky returning 404's.
Could you please investigate ?
This is only recently happening.

[jeroenb2020]

If you also had the problem, please click the "Me too" button on top.

[user528]

That's how I solved it for now as well, 10 retries for each request. Sometimes even 10 404's returned in a row. If I perform the same request again a few minutes later, 200 returned.

[jeroenb2020]

I am also tempted to solve it with retrying 404 but it's clearly a bug of course...

[th3xer0]

Original reporter here.  Can update that this issue went away for a while around three weeks ago, but the error behavior is back for me as of about two days ago.

[IgnacioGorriti]

Im having the same problem with the endpoint to get playlist

[mattgreen_aus]

I am facing this issue as well.  Specifically on this track

https://api.spotify.com/v1/audio-features/3oBxcxuAsR1eXCppkPnt6j

{
  "error": {
    "status": 404,
    "message": "analysis not found"
  }
}

The ID has worked for me fine for the past couple of months. I do some playlist analytics via Qlik, and this sudden 404 is breaking my application.