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audio_features error: Max Retries, reason: too many 429 error responses

audio_features error: Max Retries, reason: too many 429 error responses

 

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Ubuntu & Windows 10

 

I'm trying to use Spotipy to extract audio features from multiple albums/playlists and write the response to a csv file for analysis which was working fine for a couple hours and then I started getting the error "Max Retries, reason: too many 429 error responses" after every call to audio_features() no matter how many requests I made (single track or batch of tracks). Its days later now and I've run into this 95% of the time (there have been 2 random instances since its started where it has worked). I've tried clearing the cache between runs and extending the back_off factor to try and resolve this, but no luck yet.

 

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You will hit the rate limit much quicker with an app in development mode. This mode is for testing, and not for data mining.

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