[FEATURE REQUEST] Personalized search

[nikolicpetar17]

When I search for song on spotify it almost always shows up first but when I search for the same song on plugin it shows way below. Is there a way to fix that?

[nikolicpetar17]

For example on spotify i only need to type first two letters of the name of song and it shows up first, but in flow launcher when i type in the whole name of the song in only shows in 7th place of results

[nikolicpetar17]

Sorry, I just realised that it learns form your previous searches, still it whould be good if it could now your spotify preferences. Thanks for effort put into this plugin btw

[fow5040]

I'll take another look at how the search API is structured but I suspect that it doesn't provide the same recommendation order as the client does.

[nikolicpetar17]

I've noticed that when I type "Track" before searching it shows me personalized results, but when I just type the name of the song it often won't show up

[fow5040]

Yeah the Spotify search API still doesn't really provide any insight into how ranking works. We respect the order that is provided for both the ALL search (sp query) and the track search (sp track query). Maybe the limit that is set (3) in ALL search affects how results are ranked, I could try bumping this up to 10 or so and seeing if results returned line up more with the regular track API.

[fow5040]

Ok yeah I think this is the culprit. Calling Search(TYPE.Track, limit=10) and Search(TYPE.Track, limit=3) has unexpected behavior

• the first one or two times are usually the same
• the 3rd item (and onward) typically differ.

You might assume Search(limit=3) is just a truncated list made from the results of Search(limit=10), but in reality Spotify is intentially choosing a different order for your results if your limit is lower.