doesn't work for playlists with more than 100 tracks/entries anymore

[jokolo2112]

Hi there,

since a couple of weeks this very useful script stopped working for playlists with more than 100 tracks/entries.
Must be something on spotify's side because before it worked like a charm. Does anyone have a clue?
Thanks in advance and have a great week!

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[jokolo2112]

Hi again,

so I managed to fix it by myself. The problem could be caused by the limitation of the number of retrieved tracks in a request. Spotify API limits the number of results per request to 100. To process playlists with more than 100 tracks, you need to consider the pagination of the API responses. However here's the revised script:

# coding=utf-8
import sys
import spotipy
import spotipy.util as util
from time import sleep


def check_tracks(sp, results, first_date, counter):
    for i, item in enumerate(results['items']):
        temp_date = item['added_at']
        if temp_date > first_date:
            track = item['track']
            print(counter, track['artists'][0]['name'], track['name'])
            sp.user_playlist_reorder_tracks(
                username, playlist['id'], counter, 0, 1)
            sleep(0.5)
            first_date = temp_date
        counter += 1
    return counter


if __name__ == '__main__':

    scope = 'playlist-modify-private playlist-read-collaborative playlist-modify-public playlist-read-private playlist-modify-private'

##########################################
#   EDIT HERE
    username = 'XXXXXXXX'
    playlistarray = [
        'PLAYLISTNAME1'.decode('utf-8'),
        'PLAYLISTNAME2'.decode('utf-8'),
        'PLAYLISTNAME99'.decode('utf-8'),
    ]
    client_id = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
    client_secret = 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
##########################################

    token = util.prompt_for_user_token(
        username, scope, client_id=client_id, client_secret=client_secret, redirect_uri='http://localhost/')
    if token:
        sp = spotipy.Spotify(auth=token)
        playlists = sp.current_user_playlists(limit=50, offset=0)
        while playlists:
            for i, playlist in enumerate(playlists['items']):
                if playlist['owner']['id'] == username and playlist['name'] in playlistarray:
                    
                    results = sp.user_playlist_tracks(username, playlist['id'], limit=100)
                    first_date = results['items'][0]['added_at']
                    tracks = results
                    counter = 0
                    counter = check_tracks(sp, tracks, first_date, counter)
                    while tracks['next']:
                        tracks = sp.next(tracks)
                        counter = check_tracks(sp, tracks, first_date, counter)

            if playlists['next']:
                playlists = sp.next(playlists)
            else:
                playlists = None
    else:
        print("Can't get token for", username)

[Fabian]

Hi, sorry i was quite busy the last days and also i don't have an active script running at the moment anymore.
(I thought android auto fixed it and i could sort my playlists there... the songs are sorted but still played in the wrong direction... i think i need to set the script back up again.)

Thanks for your bugfix i will update the script