Unannounced endpoint request limit change

[aderpynarwhal]

Hi! I have a project that periodically runs some api requests. Recently, I've started getting unexpected 400 responses involving the limit for the artists/{id}/albums endpoint. I did some research and noticed that the /search endpoint had its limit per request dropped from 50 to 10, but there was nothing I could find stating the limit for other endpoints was also affected. Did I miss something? Am I just goofing? I'd love any sort of clarification!

[AdamusEsq]

Looks like the change must have been made back in February, but it was not explicitly mentioned in the change log or migration guide. 

January 19 (shows the original limits): https://web.archive.org/web/20260119160131/developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get...

February 13 (current version with the current limits): https://web.archive.org/web/20260213080405/developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get... 

[aderpynarwhal]

That's obnoxious at best and incredibly scummy when it isn't mentioned. Not to mention it seems like overall rate limits were lowered significantly. I might genuinely migrate to another music api platform, the current state of spotify's api isn't worth it, even if it was still free. Borderline unusable for anything meaningful.