retrieving genre of track in metadata

[user-removed]

My Question or Issue

I'm writing a scritpt to try to retrieve the genre from a track using the metadata of that song. I am not well versed in the spotify API, so i do need some information 😅.
btw i am writing it in Python and I'm using spotipy to access the API.

My question would be:
Is it even possible to retrieven the genre of a certian track? (bc it doesn't seem to work for me lol). If yes, how?

Thanks!

[Ximzend · Accepted solution]

At Spotify, tracks don't have genres, but artists do have them.

Here is code to get genre information of a single track:

import spotipy
from spotipy.oauth2 import SpotifyClientCredentials

CLIENT_ID = "your_client_id"
CLIENT_SECRET = "your_client_secret"

track_id = "TRACK_ID"

sp = spotipy.Spotify(auth_manager=SpotifyClientCredentials(client_id=CLIENT_ID,client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET))

track_data = sp.track(track_id)

artist_ids = []

for artist in track_data["artists"]:
    artist_ids.append(artist["id"])

artists_data = sp.artists(artist_ids)

genres = []

for artist in artists_data["artists"]:
    genres += artist["genres"]

genres = set(genres) # removes duplicates

print(genres)

[user-removed]

Thanks for your help!

[TionEye]

Hello, I have implemented this into my code and  I don't know why, it always gets stuck in the line: 

'artists_data = sp.artists(artist_ids)'

Can someone help me please? thanks for your time.

[Ximzend]

Hi TionEye,

Do you get any errors?