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Can i get the new releases by genre using the WebAPI? #1265

Open katerinapapazolaki opened 5 years ago

katerinapapazolaki commented 5 years ago

Hi,

How can i get the Spotify New Releases using genre?

For example bring me all the new releases for rock?

thank you!!!

shillshocked commented 5 years ago

Unfortunately, it's very hard due to feature removal. Spotify used to allow 100,000 results per search, now it's only 10,000. Considering there are 50,000-60,000 new releases each week, that's hardly sufficient with a tag:new search as it covers two weeks which is typically 100,000-120,000 for that time period. They won't let you search by day or even week. While you can restrict by character, some albums don't have alphanumeric characters, so you won't find them all. You could also search by UPC, but you'll miss a sizable percentage as not all releases have UPCs. I'm trying to search by label but there are so many labels I would have to script 10s or 100s of thousands of searches to find all of tag:new.

If they wanted to make Spotify more useful, they could at least add a language filter to advanced search to help narrow down releases a bit more.

katerinapapazolaki commented 5 years ago

Thank you very much @shillshocked for you answer :) . So beyond the significant problem of API limitations, you are saying there is not a way to filter results by genre in the API, right? I mean as a feature / api specification.

For instance bring me the latest 5 rock songs released - (so just 5 search results)

shillshocked commented 5 years ago

you can use genre:tag in the search for that. Unfortunately the most recent you can get is tag:new, so your search would be genre:rock tag:new

Check out this site for the genres: http://everynoise.com/new_releases_by_genre.cgi?genre=%2Achristian&region=US