Max retries reached, too many 429 error responses on 'audio_features' endpoint only

[jdrui]

Plan

Premium

Country

Philippines

My Question or Issue

My first app worked earlier. But after one loop through a 700-song playlist, it started giving me an Error 429. Normally this would be fine, but there's also no 'Retry-After' in the HTTPS response header. It's been six hours and I still get the same error.

I asked my friend to re-create my app in their account and try to run my program, but even on a newly created Spotify Developer account and a newly generated client id/secret, the same error occurs.

# this works and returns me tracks from the playlist_id
response = sp.playlist_items(playlist_id)
print(response)

# but this gives me an http status code 429
response = sp.audio_features(song_id)
print(response)

The whole error:

Max Retries reached
urllib3.exceptions.ResponseError: too many 429 error responses

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
...
...
urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.spotify.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /v1/audio-features/?ids=4TTV7EcfroSLWzXRY6gLv6 (Caused by ResponseError('too many 429 error responses'))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
...
...
requests.exceptions.RetryError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.spotify.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /v1/audio-features/?ids=4TTV7EcfroSLWzXRY6gLv6 (Caused by ResponseError('too many 429 error responses'))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
...
...
spotipy.exceptions.SpotifyException: http status: 429, code:-1 - /v1/audio-features/?ids=4TTV7EcfroSLWzXRY6gLv6:
 Max Retries, reason: too many 429 error responses

[y_tang]

+1 Flagging that we're having similar issue. 

http status: 429, code:-1 - /v1/audio-features/?ids=7zMUCLm1TN9o9JlLISztxO:
 Max Retries, reason: too many 429 error responses  

[Ximzend]

Requesting audio features of 700 tracks one-by-one is bad practice.

The documentation clearly states "tracks - a list of track URIs, URLs or IDs, maximum: 100 ids". So, if you use lists of 100 track ids, it would only take 7 requests; not 700.

(For not Spotipy users, you can use this endpoint.)

[fontanaemanuele14]

Same issue. This is my code. I'm trying to retrive the features of one song. Only one

track_features = sp.audio_features("3GYlZ7tbxLOxe6ewMNVTkw")

[BuggerMe]

I am getting the max retries reached error after deriving the features of 700 songs using Spotipy library, I have 6700 songs for which I have to extract features , someone please guide me how can I achieve this without getting max retries error.

[BuggerMe]

where does the documentation mentions the exact limit for the number of tracks whose features can be extracted by the API call ?
it says audio_features(tracks=[])

Get audio features for one or multiple tracks based upon their Spotify IDs Parameters:

• tracks - a list of track URIs, URLs or IDs, maximum: 100 ids

[Ximzend]

@BuggerMe: A maximum of 100 ids per request

[dmwatibo]

I'm also having a similar issue. I tried it 1 by 1 for 500 songs and that ran fine probably 4 times. 5 hours later I've now gotten a 429 off of one call of audio-features. I've tried passing in 50 songs, 5 songs, and 1 song. Still get the same error.

[BuggerMe]

for audio features the batch api limit is 100 so for 500 tracks you can have 5 batches of 100 id requests each and if implemented correctly should take just few seconds instead of 5 hours.

[Jako2411]

I tried it with just one track id. Still gives the same error

[Fedea]

How long does it take after the rate limit is over? The error does not seem to have a Retry-After header.

[gautamhans]

i have the same issue. it worked fine for me for extracting roughly 2-3k track features at first. 

But after few hours i was hit with the rate limit. 
been more than 16 hours and still the limit is applied. 😐

[Ximzend]

Hi gautamhans,

For what purpose do you need the audio features of that many tracks? 😲

[Ximzend]

I guess your library of saved tracks is that big, and that is understand.

[dizzafizza]

still didn’t get an answer to why there’s a rate limit hours after on only a single song request 🤔

[8jkd-7k86_3xl]

you might want to try refreshing your token.

I believe that's what worked for me 🙂