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Ghoul Fool
Ghoul Fool

Reputation: 6967

Spotipy search track name and return album, track and artist

I'm trying to get to grips with spotipy (again) I'm trying to return the artist, album, and track name from search by track title.

track = "Pretend we're dead"
results = sp.search(q="track:" + track, type="track")

for idx, artist, album, track in enumerate(results['tracks']['artist']['album']['items']):
    print(idx, track['name'], track['artist'], album['album'])

Expected results:

  1. Pretend We're Dead, L7, Bricks Are Heavy
  2. Pretend We're Dead, L7, Pretend We're Dead - The Best Of
  3. Pretend We're Dead - Remastered, L7, Fast & Frightning

I'm failing on deconstructing the list comprehension that are the results.

The error I'm getting is:

Traceback (most recent call last):
    print(idx, track['name'], track['artist_id'])
KeyError: 'artist_id'

Upvotes: 2

Views: 983

Answers (1)

Cargo23
Cargo23

Reputation: 3189

Looking at the docs, I see that the response is going to look like this (leaving out the boring parts):

{
  "album": {}
  "artists": [
    {
      "genres": [
        "Prog rock",
        "Grunge"
      ],
      "href": "string",
      "id": "string",
      "images": [
        {
          "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e02ff9ca10b55ce82ae553c8228\n",
          "height": 300,
          "width": 300
        }
      ],
      "name": "string",
      "popularity": 0,
      "type": "artist",
      "uri": "string"
    }
  ]
}

Looking at this, artists is a key within the result, and it is a list of dictionaries, with each dict being a single artist for the track.

Using that info, this would be the way to refer to the first artist's id:

track["artists"][0]["id"]

If this isn't right, the trick to doing this is to just print(json.dumps(track, indent=3)) and look at the actual JSON you are receiving.

Upvotes: 3

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