Issues with Recommendations API?

[Sansans]

Plan

Premium

Country

Sweden

Operating System

(iOS 14, Windows 10)

My Question or Issue

Hey!

I'm working mainly with the recommendations and track APIs. Today, when I picked up my project, all of a sudden some recommendations requests does not return any recommendations. This is with code I wrote yesterday that worked fine.

The user is only able to search for valid Artist IDs (This is made sure by autocompleteing from results of a search request).

One example that worked fine yesterday, but not today, is this search for Guns N' Roses:

https://api.spotify.com/v1/recommendations?seed_artists=3qm84nBOXUEQ2vnTfUTTFC&min_tempo=170&max_tem... That returns zero recommendations.

Using this link: https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-search-item/?q=guns+roses&type=artist you can verify that the ID is correct.

For other artists e.g. Melissa Horn (https://api.spotify.com/v1/recommendations?seed_artists=0tOdy7SqogILIjzGU2hSr5&min_tempo=170&max_tem... ) this works totally fine.

To me, this feels like something on Spotify's end, but the status page does not indicate that anything is wrong: https://status.spotify.dev/

I've worked with this for about two months now, and have not experienced anything like this previously.

Any hints? 🙂

Br,
Joel

[mcrawford620]

Sounds similar to what I was experiencing a week ago. It resolved itself for a while, and now it's broken again.

[Sansans]

Feels indeed similar to your kasus. Really annoying. But then I guess I’ll have to wait and see. Thanks for your reply! 😊

[fireblyxx]

Also seeing this. I get the feeling that the status page only checks for server errors, but the endpoint is returning results, it's just that it's returning zero results for artists that it should be returning recommendations for, like Beyoncé.

[fireblyxx]

Actually, it seems that only artist seeds are impacted at this time. Track seeds and genre seeds are returning recommendations as expected, but artist seeds largey don't seem to be returning recommendations, with a pool size of 0 recommendations.

[Sansans]

Yeah, since the original post functionality has degraded further. Currently, I get no recommendations regardless of the artist seed. I currently only use artist seeds, I’ll try another seed type tonight.

Thanks!

How can we get some attention on this?

[spotifyjosh]

Hey folks - thank you for reporting this issue. We are looking into it further on our side. I will post in the thread here as soon as I have an update.

[Sansans]

Thanks spotifyjosh, just did a quick test and it seems to work now!

Would be awesome if these issues could be reflected on the status page! 🙂

Have a good one!

[kkhal]

Unfortunately I've just noticed this issue is occurring again. As before, it affects artist seeds but genre and track seeds are OK.

[Sansans]

Yup, have seen the same issue for a few hours now. 😞

[spotifyjosh]

Thanks for keeping us updated, @Sansans @kkhal. Are you still seeing any problems with the Recommendations API now? Please let us know if the issue reappears.

[Dxphii]

Hi! I seem to be having an issue with the tracks seeds, is this occurring for you now?

EDIT: Issue resolved.