Web console endpoint VS developper endpoint

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- Windows 10

- While working for my company, one of the thing that we need to do is to correct songs' artist/title. For that, one of the possible ways would be to use Spotify api to search using our title/artist then among the top results take the one closest to what we have.

So I have been testing the "search" endpoint however I have found that while the actual research (https://open.spotify.com/search) and the api's web console do give me results, the real api endpoint when contacted via code or via Postman sometimes give me a return null for the exact same research with the same account, the same token and the same url.

On the web console :
https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=andersn%20bazr&type=track&market=BE&limit=10
 gives me some result (and the correct one is among them)
On my code/Postman :
https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=andersn+bazr&type=track&market=BE&offset=0&limit=10
 give me a return null.

The only differences between the two url are because the second one is the one present in the return after request. The real request is
https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=andersn%20bazr&type=track&market=BE&offset=0&limit=10
- "q" => "query"
- "%20" => "+"
- offest of 0 added

PS : I tried by changing my request with the modifications before sending, no difference.

Is it possible that the endpoint accessible for developpers are more limited than the actual web console/website endpoint ? And it only happen for some researchs "andern bazr" or "andersn - bazr".

I contacted the help service (the french one) via chat to ask but they were unable to answer so the only way I can get some clarification is either here or via Twitter ... 🙂