Search function doesn't result in the same result every time

[chaitanya-gvs]

Describe the bug
The search function for tracks sometimes results in an empty array even though the songs are available on Spotify.

Your code

songURIList = [] # List to store the URIs
for idx,_ in tqdm(dfBillbaords[0:10].iterrows()):

    artist = dfBillbaords['Artist'][idx]
    track = dfBillbaords['Song'][idx]
    year = dfBillbaords['Year'][idx]

    searchResults = sp.search(q=f"artist: {artist} track: {track} year: {year}",type='track')

    if len(searchResults['tracks']['items'])>0:
        songURI = searchResults['tracks']['items'][0]['uri']   #Getting the URI of the first track in search result
    else:
        songURI = 'Unavailable'   #Assigning URI as 'Unavailable' 
    songURIList.append(songURI)
    time.sleep(5)

Expected behavior
The search result should be the same every time.
However the search result changes every time I run. It is not reproducible.

Output
Case 1:

Case 2:

Notice the difference in outputs between the two cases above,
The output is quite erratic and changing with every re-run.
The search function is failing to fetch the songs even if they're available.

Environment:

• OS: Windows 11
• Python version: 3.8.8
• spotipy version: 2.2
• IDE : Jupyter Notebook IDE

[dpnem]

I believe this is an Spotify API issue with the single quotes (') in the track names. If you remove the single quote from the track titles, you should be good.

Here's a quick search I did on "search track with single quote"

[chaitanya-gvs]

I don't think that's the case.
I have searched for tracks without single quotes in their names as well. And it still repeats.

[stephanebruckert]

@Chaitanya98 your example does not really show that spotipy or the Spotify API is the issue.

Perhaps, your initial dataframe isn't the same or isn't ordered the same way every time?

I don't want to know what tqdm() is doing, but your example could be simplified to do the exact same query every time.