C#•14mo ago

✅ Help with SpotifyAPI

I'm trying to retrieve more than a 100 songs at once from a playlist in Spotify and I can't get it to work. And I have no idea how to make that work. No need to send code since I didn't start to write anything, ChatGPT suggested a few things but non of them worked. Please help :) Thanks in advance.

33 Replies

Pobiega•14mo ago

How are we supposed to help given the information you provided so far? We don't provide support for the Spotify API

Jimmacle•14mo ago

if i had to guess that's probably an intentional limitation of their API their documentation should provide that information

Pobiega•14mo ago

The search endpoint explicitly states its limits

PotatoNetoOP•14mo ago

What else would want me to give you? I couldn't find it I also couldn't find a Discord server that provides such thing, so it makes sense to send it in the C# server. Someone PROBABLY used the SpotifyAPI in here.

Pobiega•14mo ago

If you literally Google "Spotify API search" it's the first hit lol

PotatoNetoOP•14mo ago

Let me rephrase my problem Fixed it

Anu6is•14mo ago

you have to make multiple requests

PotatoNetoOP•14mo ago

Oof, isn't there a way to do it without multiple requests?

Jimmacle•14mo ago

what does their documentation say

PotatoNetoOP•14mo ago

try{
      var playlist = await spotify.Playlists.Get(playlistID);

      if((playlist.Tracks == null) || (playlist.Tracks.Items == null) ||                            (playlist.Tracks.Items.Count <= 0)) {
          throw new Exception("No songs in playlist.");
        }
                
        playlist.Tracks.Limit = 350; // THIS LINE
  
        return playlist.Tracks.Items;
}
catch(Exception e) {
    System.Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
    System.Console.WriteLine();

    return new List<PlaylistTrack<IPlayableItem>>();
}

try{
      var playlist = await spotify.Playlists.Get(playlistID);

      if((playlist.Tracks == null) || (playlist.Tracks.Items == null) ||                            (playlist.Tracks.Items.Count <= 0)) {
          throw new Exception("No songs in playlist.");
        }
                
        playlist.Tracks.Limit = 350; // THIS LINE
  
        return playlist.Tracks.Items;
}
catch(Exception e) {
    System.Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
    System.Console.WriteLine();

    return new List<PlaylistTrack<IPlayableItem>>();
}

I added this line and it still returns a list with 100 and that's it. I took this line from their docs.

Jimmacle•14mo ago

so you're fetching something from their API, modifying the response, and expecting that to change the request that you already sent? i'm confused

Pobiega•14mo ago

Uhm.. You do understand that you are setting the value on it, after it has already been fetched

PotatoNetoOP•14mo ago

Yea I got that. And just 1 thing, instead of pointing out my errors, why won't you help me? Clearly I don't know very well what I'm doing, right? So help me. Don't be like that.

Jimmacle•14mo ago

we're helping you right now?

Pobiega•14mo ago

If by "help" you mean "give me the code", thats not happening.

PotatoNetoOP•14mo ago

That's not I meant.

Jimmacle•14mo ago

if that doesn't involve telling you what you're doing wrong, what is "helping" supposed to look like if you're looking for someone to just hand you an answer, that's not how we do things here

Pobiega•14mo ago

If you don't understand something, ask about it. But try to ask specific questions. Based on the above, it looks like you want to fetch the tracks of a given playlist. The API documentation for that is https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/get-playlists-tracks look at the API doc page, specifically where it says "limit" and tell us what it says

PotatoNetoOP•14mo ago

Ok. I saw that, though you see at the top it's says playlists/{playlistId}/tracks?

Pobiega•14mo ago

yep, thats the API path

PotatoNetoOP•14mo ago

Right, but in my code, in that certain (and only) line I see the Playlists(id) I don't quite understand where I should put the #Tracks.

Jimmacle•14mo ago

do you have documentation for the C# API wrapper you're using?

PotatoNetoOP•14mo ago

I found this (right when I started working with that api) but I can't find what I need here. https://johnnycrazy.github.io/SpotifyAPI-NET/

SpotifyAPI-NET | SpotifyAPI-NET

Documentation for the C# .NET SpotifyAPI-NET Library

Jimmacle•14mo ago

https://github.com/JohnnyCrazy/SpotifyAPI-NET/blob/master/SpotifyAPI.Web/Clients/Interfaces/IPlaylistsClient.cs#L140

GitHub

SpotifyAPI-NET/SpotifyAPI.Web/Clients/Interfaces/IPlaylistsClient.c...

:sound: A Client for the Spotify Web API, written in C#/.NET - JohnnyCrazy/SpotifyAPI-NET

Jimmacle•14mo ago

there is an overload for that method that takes an object with additional options that should let you do what you want, if not then you'll need to find a wrapper that exposes the parts of the API you need but you still won't get more than 100 items at once, in fact i'm surprised you're getting that since spotify's documentation says the limit is 50 the API is what's called paginated, if you want more data you have to manipulate the offset and limit options to get it in multiple parts

Pobiega•14mo ago

the wrapper you are using seems to be doing some of that work for you https://johnnycrazy.github.io/SpotifyAPI-NET/docs/pagination

PotatoNetoOP•14mo ago

What's paginate? ok nvm it's says it right here

Pobiega•14mo ago

so instead of just accessing Items directly, you're expected to use the Paginate and PaginateAll methods on the playlist.Tracks So to answer this, it would have been very useful to link to the Spotify API wrapper you were using in your original post. You didn't say anything about a wrapper, so I assumed you were using the API directly

PotatoNetoOP•14mo ago

Ok, now I know that. Thanks Pobiega

Pobiega•14mo ago

the more information you provide, the better help you get

PotatoNetoOP•14mo ago

Yea, I just never thought about sending the wrapper link Just saying it worked, thanks a lot and sorry if I wasn't clear at the beginning.

Pobiega•14mo ago

No worries, glad you got it working and hopefully learned how to better ask questions for next time 🙂 consider $close -ing this thread

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