Last updated: 5 Aug 25 11:42:06 (UTC)

P# Spotify consistent genre API

https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-users-currently-playing-track/ https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/player/get-the-users-currently-playing-track

additional_types: track when playing podcast:

{
  "timestamp": 1607443546029,
  "context": null,
  "item": null,
  "currently_playing_type": "episode", # important, always check first
  "is_playing": true
}

{
  "timestamp": 1607443546029,
  "context": null,
  "item": null,
  "currently_playing_type": "episode", # important, always check first
  "is_playing": true
}

normally:

{
  "timestamp": 1607443584893, # see duration of track
  "context": { # where are we playing from, could be used to pre-fetch data and work for a while when user is offline without changing the track, feature of v2
    # https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-several-albums is nice
    "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/5aqePBT6ZFUYiQdqxSFmaC",
    "type": "playlist",
    "uri": "spotify:user:piccstok2x5d54jkt3mf1sdwy:playlist:5aqePBT6ZFUYiQdqxSFmaC"
  },
  "progress_ms": 32138, # see duration of track
  "item": {
    "album": {
      "album_type": "album",
      "artists": [
        {
          "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/4UuRl4uM2Nf7sbNFBKpZ6b",
          "id": "4UuRl4uM2Nf7sbNFBKpZ6b", # use this for secondary lookup (what if multiple artists? show artist name + genres for each? too lenghty!)
          "name": "Night Gestalt",
          "type": "artist",
          "uri": "spotify:artist:4UuRl4uM2Nf7sbNFBKpZ6b"
        }
      ],
      "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/albums/5or0DF9PexTYJs34O4KnnD", # https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-album
      "id": "5or0DF9PexTYJs34O4KnnD", # album id for primary lookup
      "name": "New Glasir",
      "type": "album",
      "uri": "spotify:album:5or0DF9PexTYJs34O4KnnD"
    },
    "duration_ms": 308504, # compare this with progress to timeout (when next request?) the shown genres, if no information arrives
    "id": "04IF73dnOwn1ABMVfTkhPf",
    "is_local": false, # if track is local, we don't know about it
    "type": "track",
    "uri": "spotify:track:04IF73dnOwn1ABMVfTkhPf"
  },
  "currently_playing_type": "track", # check this that we are on the right track
  "is_playing": true # use this to hide when not playing for 5-10s
}

{
  "timestamp": 1607443584893, # see duration of track
  "context": { # where are we playing from, could be used to pre-fetch data and work for a while when user is offline without changing the track, feature of v2
    # https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-several-albums is nice
    "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/5aqePBT6ZFUYiQdqxSFmaC",
    "type": "playlist",
    "uri": "spotify:user:piccstok2x5d54jkt3mf1sdwy:playlist:5aqePBT6ZFUYiQdqxSFmaC"
  },
  "progress_ms": 32138, # see duration of track
  "item": {
    "album": {
      "album_type": "album",
      "artists": [
        {
          "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/4UuRl4uM2Nf7sbNFBKpZ6b",
          "id": "4UuRl4uM2Nf7sbNFBKpZ6b", # use this for secondary lookup (what if multiple artists? show artist name + genres for each? too lenghty!)
          "name": "Night Gestalt",
          "type": "artist",
          "uri": "spotify:artist:4UuRl4uM2Nf7sbNFBKpZ6b"
        }
      ],
      "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/albums/5or0DF9PexTYJs34O4KnnD", # https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-album
      "id": "5or0DF9PexTYJs34O4KnnD", # album id for primary lookup
      "name": "New Glasir",
      "type": "album",
      "uri": "spotify:album:5or0DF9PexTYJs34O4KnnD"
    },
    "duration_ms": 308504, # compare this with progress to timeout (when next request?) the shown genres, if no information arrives
    "id": "04IF73dnOwn1ABMVfTkhPf",
    "is_local": false, # if track is local, we don't know about it
    "type": "track",
    "uri": "spotify:track:04IF73dnOwn1ABMVfTkhPf"
  },
  "currently_playing_type": "track", # check this that we are on the right track
  "is_playing": true # use this to hide when not playing for 5-10s
}

album:

{
  "genres": [], # let's hope there's something here
}

{
  "genres": [], # let's hope there's something here
}

mass-query (ahead):

tb implemented in v2

tb implemented in v2

if not, check artists (might need to recursively for each listed artist):

{
  "genres": [
    "dance pop",
    "latin",
    "miami hip hop",
    "pop",
    "pop dance",
    "pop rap"
  ],
  "name": "Pitbull",
k}

{
  "genres": [
    "dance pop",
    "latin",
    "miami hip hop",
    "pop",
    "pop dance",
    "pop rap"
  ],
  "name": "Pitbull",
k}

mass-query (ahead):

tb implemented in v2

tb implemented in v2