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goodforenergy
goodforenergy

Reputation: 520

Why does this SoundCloud API method not retrieve all tracks?

I'm attempting to retrieve all of my favourited songs from my profile on SoundCloud using the SoundCloud API method /users/{id}/favorites.

After registering my application with SoundCloud and retrieving my ClientID, I can successfully retrieve an array of favourited tracks in JSON using a call to http://api.soundcloud.com/users/goodforenergy/favorites?client_id={my-client-id}.

Looking at my SoundCloud profile, however, you can see I have (at this moment in time) 182 likes - but the method is only returning 48.

Any ideas as to why? I thought there may be a next_href returned in the JSON that I was expected to follow to retrieve more, but I don't see any. In any case, 48 seems a very arbitrary number to return!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 703

Answers (1)

Mike S
Mike S

Reputation: 11409

According to soundcloud api docs most of the results in the API are returned in collections which are limited by default to a size of 50. I realize that it's peculiar that you are seeing 48 rather than 50 but it's probably worth modifying your call to support pagination.

Most endpoints support a linked_partitioning parameter that will allow you to page through collections. When this parameter is passed, the response will contain a next_href property if there are additional results.

So you need to update your API call to include the linked_partitioning and limit parameters in order to recieve a next_href.

Upvotes: 4

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