I've been playing around with spotipy and the spotify API and I wanted to create a dashboard where I present some metrics about my main playlist and my recently played songs. As it happens, in most functions, there's an imposed limit of 50 results. When I extarcted the contents of my playlist, I was able to circumvent this using next and susequently fetching the following results until there are none. However, with the recently played tracks this is not working, although there's a next URL, that URL contains nothing. I'm not sure if it's actually possible to retrieve more than 50 rows of data or there's something I'm doing wrong, but help would be appreciated.
Current code:
recently_played = sp_login.current_user_recently_played()def get_recent_tracks(sp_login, n_tracks): results = sp_login.current_user_recently_played() tracks = get_tracks_id(results['items']) dates = get_date_played(results['items']) while results['next'] and len(tracks) < n_tracks: results = sp_login.next(results) tracks.extend(get_tracks_id(results['items'])) dates.extend(get_date_played(results['items'])) return tracks, datesdef get_tracks_id(tracks): track_ids = [] for item in tracks: track_ids.append(item['track']['id']) return track_idsdef get_date_played(tracks): dates_played = [] for item in tracks: dates_played.append(item['played_at']) return dates_playedall_tracks, dates_played = get_recent_tracks(sp_login, 300)If I just run this:
results = sp_login.current_user_recently_played()sp_login.next(results)I get this as an output:
{'items': [],'next': None,'cursors': None,'limit': 50,'href': 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recently-played?before=1659536402173&limit=50'}