I am looking to create a custom spotify playlist rather than use the generator via the website. I need a way of grabbing this xml, rather like the lookup and search facilities that the webAPI provide. I have tried to use a playlist spotifyURI with the lookup functionality but it doesnt seem to work.
e.g.
http://ws.spotify.com/lookup/1/?uri=spotify:user:XXX:playlist:YYY
However, using this just gives me the following error :
“You hit the rate limit, wait 10 seconds and try again”
I don’t think I have really hit the hitrate, I only tried it a few times.
If this isnt the way to go, what other options are there ? libSpotify ? This seems like rather a bigger solution for just getting some xml for a playlist.
Any help appreciated.
The web API doesn’t support playlist lookup at all. If you want to find playlist data, you’d have to use libspotify.