before and after are utterly useless with /me/player/recently-played

[quinn16]

Plan - Premium

Country - USA

Device/OS - Windows 10

My Question or Issue

the before and after fields are utterly useless for the recent played tracks endpoint (/me/player/recently-played) in the web API. Specifying before yields an empty array while specifying after does nothing different than when no parameters are given.

I saw similar posts on the internet and this forum a few years ago and decided I might as well make a new one to see if there are any updates. I am having trouble with the node SDK as well as the console (https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-recently-played/).

Basically just wondering if anyone else is able to get before and/or after fields to work when hitting this endpoint. If not, then oh well and the documentation should be changed. If you can, please help 🙂

[BabyEcho0_YT]

@quinn16

Hey, Welcome to the community!! 😉

Sorry Spotify cannot provide any information on the music that was played before or after the recently-played song. Spotify only provides information on the recently-played song, such as the artist, album, and track name.  Additionally, Spotify does not provide any images related to the recently-played song.

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[Ximzend]

To add to the previous answer, the limit is the last 50 tracks.

Edit: added "the last" after BayEcho0's comment

[BabyEcho0_YT]

@Ximzend

Thank you for commenting on this post. 😉

This means that if you use the /me/player/recently-played endpoint, you will only be able to retrieve the last 50 tracks that you have played. This means that you cannot use the "before" and "after" parameters to get a larger range of tracks.

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[BabyEcho0_YT]

@Ximzend

Hey there, Welcome to the Community!! 😉

What do you mean by "Add added "the last" after BayEcho0's comment"

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[Tyler1232321]

True! Super frustrating. At least change the documentation after all this time to reflect how useless this endpoint is.