Spotify API - get all of user's Liked Songs?

[jeffreybloemen]

Hi all,

I am looking to build an app which uses all of an user's Liked Songs as input (https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/library/get-users-saved-tracks/). However, the limit appears to be 50 max:

limit	Optional. The maximum number of objects to return. Default: 20. Minimum: 1. Maximum: 50.

Is there any way to get all of a user's songs?

Kind regards

[jscholes]

Look at the next row in the Query Parameters table. You'll see:

offset | Optional. The index of the first object to return. Default: 0 (i.e., the first object). Use with limit to get the next set of objects.

This is how the Spotify Web API implements pagination, allowing you to retrieve up to 10,000 saved tracks (which is also the limit that a user can save in the first place). Saved tracks and liked tracks might not be the same thing, though.

[jeffreybloemen]

Look at the next row in the Query Parameters table. You'll see:

offset | Optional. The index of the first object to return. Default: 0 (i.e., the first object). Use with limit to get the next set of objects.

This is how the Spotify Web API implements pagination, allowing you to retrieve up to 10,000 saved tracks (which is also the limit that a user can save in the first place). Saved tracks and liked tracks might not be the same thing, though.

Thanks jscholes.

Question: why is it done this way, as opposed to just having a limit of 10,000 (not needing to offset)?

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