Query all tracks in playlist?

[MCOfficer]

Is there any way to get all tracks in a playlist - not just the IDs, but the metadata?

As far as I can tell, Playlist only exposes the IDs of its tracks. My two options are calling Track::get for every single item in the playlist, or using the web API.

Is librespot unable to get tracks in bulk, or am I missing something?

[photovoltex]

Nop, there is not way as far as I'm aware of. If you want bulk request the best way is to use the web-api.

The only endpoint that we implemented that might be interesting for you would be SpClient::get_context. With that you can get the entire context of a context (see docs). With that you could then just call the tracks api to get the specific infos about the tracks itself. Hope that helps :)

[photovoltex]

In general when you query info about spotify you should probably use the web-api (rspotify). The endpoints we collect are nice and all, but can be revoked, changed and all at any time by spotify. With their official api you are in general on a safer side with more consistent and reliable endpoints :D

[kingosticks]

I'll just add, when using Spotify's web API, you are best off using an access token obtained from librespot (which uses Spotify's OAuth client ID). Such a token will have full access, whereas Spotify have crippled the capabilities of tokens obtained using new/restricted client IDs.

[MCOfficer]

Is there a reliable endpoint? I looked into it briefly, and found lots of issues such as #1475

[photovoltex]

When you have a session instance you can use:

• session.login5().auth_token() (will have all scopes) or
• session.token_provider().get_token(vec!["streaming"])

[kingosticks]

What @photovoltex said. There are no issues when obtaining an access token from librespot. #1475 is about obtaining an access token by other means.