Search API returns wrong total amount of results

[hedgehog1833]

Plan

Free

Country

Germany

My Question or Issue

I'm calling the following URL to search Spotify for artists:

https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=Nirvana&type=artist&offset=0&limit=20

The result contains 20 items with a total value of 87. The "next" url has an offset of 20, so I would expect to have five "pages" in sum, the fifth and last one containing only seven items. But that's not the case. Requesting the fourth page with offset 60:

https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=Nirvana&type=artist&offset=60&limit=20

gives only 7 items. The response also contains a "next" link with an offset of 80 but this gives an empty list of items. So 20 items are missing or the total number is not correct.

Am I doing something wrong here or is this actually a bug? Other artists also show wrong looking total numbers. Searching for "Opeth" with a limit of 20 gives one item yet a total value of two...

Best regards from Berlin

Nils

[DanielWagner87]

I've noticed that too. This is obviously a bug. Please fix it.

[hedgehog1833]

I found that this bug has already been reported in the old bug tracker on github about half a year ago, but without comment 😞 Apparently this was already reported (and even fixed) one more time in 2016 here

Does really nobody want to look after this issue?

[Naianasha]

So this is still happening almost 8 years after the issue was closed on Github 🙃