Looking for a solution to target_year

[spookybunghole]

Plan

Premium

Country

US

My Question or Issue

I'm working with the recommendations API and want to utilize something like "target_year" to fetch songs from a certain decade. I know it's not possible currently, but does anyone have an idea of how I might be able to hack that together?

[Ximzend]

Sadly what you want isn't supported by the Get Recommendations endpoint, but you can filter on a single year: or a range (e.g. 1955-1960) using the Search for Item endpoint.

[spookybunghole]

Thank you! Unfortunately, I’m not sure that would work quite right for my app.

I’m thinking I can just loop through the recommendations response and only grab the songs that fit a certain year range. In theory, the code will:

1. Get 100 recommendations
2. Find 30 songs that fall within ±5 years of a target year.
3. If 30 songs are not found, the program will get another 100 recommendations.
4. Repeat until 30 songs within target year are found.

In terms of rate limiting, is there a difference between getting 100 recommendations vs say 50 songs?

[Ximzend]

You need less request when you use the maximum amount in of the endpoint. The rate limit is about the number of requests in a fixed timeframe, and not about the size.