playlist tracks iterator not iterating

[Alexander Blüm]

hello!

based on the https://github.com/wittydeveloper/spotify-fetch-my-playlists I am trying to fetch a particular playlist.

const config = {
    accessToken: "<<TOKEN>>"
}

SpotifyGraphQLClient(config).query(`
{
    playlist(userId: "1128723762", id: "2YARXniaJywrRZbbQeSoAi") {
        id
        name
        tracks {
            track {
                id
                name
                artists {
                    id,
                    name
                }
                album {
                    id,
                    name
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
`).then(executionResult => {
        if (executionResult.errors) {
            console.log('error');
            console.error(JSON.stringify(executionResult.errors));
        } else {
            console.log('success');
            console.log(JSON.stringify(executionResult.data, null, 2));
            console.log("number of tracks:", executionResult.data["playlist"].tracks.length);
        }
    })

the number of tracks returned is 50. it should be 1133.
when debugging, i see that the initial response contains the 50 elements, a next url is also available, the offset iterator's offset is also incremented, only does the iterator not seem to be used afterwards.

what am i doing wrong?

[Charly Poly]

Hi @jopek,

Thanks for using spotify-graphql 🎉

I found what is missing in your query.
In order to tell to spotify-graphql to iterate until the last records, you should pass limit: -1 to tracks() in order to explicitly say (dump everything, even if it's a large collection).
This "hack" is here to prevent the GraphQL server to fetch everything automatically.

I agree that this feature should be documented, sorry for the inconvenience 🙇

So, in short, your query should be:

{
  playlist(userId: "1128723762", id: "2YARXniaJywrRZbbQeSoAi") {
        id
        name
        tracks(limit: -1) {
            track {
                id
                name
                artists {
                    id,
                    name
                }
                album {
                    id,
                    name
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Tip: in the future, you can use the interactive test console to test queries with real Spotify data 😉

Cheers,

[Charly Poly]

Follow-up issue: #63

[Alexander Blüm]

@wittydeveloper thank you very much for the super quick response and for this project!
setting the limit to -1 did the trick! ☀️