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"Too many 429" but no 429s

"Too many 429" but no 429s

I have been developing a script to organize my music in a particular way. While I was figuring it out, I made API calls quite inefficiently. I eventually figured out how to be much more efficient, but I've been getting a mysterious "too many 429s" for the audio_features API, without any 429s, and without a retry-after message. This has been happening for hours.

 

This seems to only be for the audio_features API.

I tried creating a new app in the developer dashboard and gave credentials for that one, but I'm still getting "too many 429s."

 

Have I been shadow-banned or something? Will this reset?

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Did you use the "Get audio features for multiple tracks based on their Spotify IDs." or the "Get audio feature information for a single track identified by its unique Spotify ID." endpoint?

(I'm just interested.)

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I was using the audio_features entrypoint in Spotipy:

https://spotipy.readthedocs.io/en/2.22.1/#spotipy.client.Spotify.audio_features

Looking at the code for Spotipy, I see that actually it is doing retries, and it was just doing them very fast. So I'll do a bit more digging; this seems to be on my end.

How long before you were able to request using audio_features again? I just started receiving this error with no 'retry-after' in the headers.

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