Missing albums for artists
- Mark as New
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Mute
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Permalink
- Report Inappropriate Content
I am working on an application that works with past listening data and analyses it. Given that the only data about listening you can get is for the past 50 tracks, I resorted to downloading data through an information request and am then parsing the data. As part of this I need to acquire the track id's as they aren't contained. The most reliable way I hoped to achieve this was by searching all the tracks put out by an artist and all the albums they released/appeared on etc and then looking for the track name. However I have run into some issues, some of which I largely worked around like when artist names change and track names change. However my main issue is I have discovered some albums seem to be missing when making a request to the
https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/{id}/albums |
endpoint. For example, Eiffel 65, with the artist ID "64rxQRJsLgZwHHyWKB8fiF" returns 49 items. However none of them are album id "34llTOMDUaSmdbMp9JrwYw". If you pull that album directly with the
https://api.spotify.com/v1/albums/{id} endpoint it correctly has the above artist id as the artist. I am not sure why this is missing and there very well could be more examples I haven't stumbled upon. It very well might be an edge case but its certainly worth looking into! |
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Mark Topic as New
- Mark Topic as Read
- Float this Topic for Current User
- Bookmark
- Subscribe
- Printer Friendly Page