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Search API not returning full results for playlist

albisaqui1

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2023-09-14 07:34 PM

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Hi there,

I'm using the search API for playlists, if I search, for example, 'James Brown Funky Drummer', I only get 5 results, with a limit of 50 explicitly applied. When I do the same search through the web API documentation, it shows that there is a total of 608 results. I can't figure out why?

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