0.6.3: Parse Spotify's renamed /items response shape (new apps get item, not track)

Spotify's February 2026 changes did not just move /playlists/{id}/tracks to
/items: for apps on the new behavior the per-entry payload key was renamed
from "track" to "item" (tracks.tracks.track -> items.items.item). Extended
Quota Mode (grandfathered) apps keep the old key, which is why this never
reproduced locally. Every parser in alembic read only "track", so on a new
app each entry looked like a null/local track and was silently skipped: the
CSV came out header-only, sldl no-opped with exit 0, and the playlist page
showed an empty tracklist. Confirmed live on a new app against a playlist
the connected account owns.

All /items consumers (spotify_client.py, spotify-playlist-csv.py,
spotify-retag.py) now parse both key names, and the fields query filter is
gone: it selects by key name, so filtering on track(...) is itself what
returned empty pages on the renamed shape.

Also per the migration guide, new apps only receive playlist contents for
playlists the connected account owns or collaborates on; other playlists
return metadata with no items field at all (public is no longer enough).
That case now raises a pointed error (UI and CSV fetch) instead of reading
as an empty playlist, run-playlist.sh logs the fetched track count and warns
loudly when it is zero, and the README guidance is updated to match.

New tests pin get_playlist_tracks against both response shapes, the
metadata-only error, and pagination.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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andrew
2026-07-15 09:50:57 -06:00
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@@ -77,18 +77,34 @@ def get_playlist_tracks(db: Session, playlist_url: str) -> list[dict]:
tracks = []
# /items, not /tracks: Spotify removed GET /playlists/{id}/tracks in its
# February 2026 API changes in favor of /items (same response shape). New
# apps are 403'd on the old endpoint; grandfathered apps still tolerate it
# for now, but /items is the correct, future-proof one.
# February 2026 API changes. The response shape ALSO changed, but only for
# apps on the new behavior: each entry's payload moved from "track" to
# "item" (tracks.tracks.track -> items.items.item). Extended Quota Mode
# (grandfathered) apps keep the old "track" key, so parse both. No
# `fields` filter: it selects by key name, so on the renamed shape a
# track(...) filter silently returns empty pages -- exactly the failure
# we're avoiding.
url = f"{API_BASE}/playlists/{playlist_id}/items"
params = {"limit": 100, "fields": "items(track(name,artists(name),external_ids)),next"}
params = {"limit": 100}
while url:
resp = httpx.get(url, params=params, headers=headers, timeout=15)
resp.raise_for_status()
data = resp.json()
for item in data.get("items", []):
track = item.get("track")
if "items" not in data:
# New-behavior apps get metadata only (no items field at all) for
# playlists the connected account doesn't own or collaborate on --
# public is no longer sufficient. Same message style the playlist
# page shows for a 403.
raise RuntimeError(
"Spotify returned this playlist without its contents. For newly "
"created Spotify apps, the account connected via Connect Spotify "
"must own the playlist (or be a collaborator on it) -- ask the "
"owner to share it as collaborative, or recreate it under the "
"connected account."
)
for item in data["items"]:
track = item.get("track") or item.get("item")
if not track:
continue # local files / removed tracks show up as null
artists = track.get("artists") or []