[GH-ISSUE #398] Spotipy freezes on large requests using next #232

New issue

Closed

opened 2026-02-27 23:21:32 +03:00 by kerem · 3 comments

kerem commented

2026-02-27 23:21:32 +03:00

Owner

Originally created by @shillshocked on GitHub (Oct 17, 2019).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/issues/398

After several minutes it will eventually freeze. No errors, just no further progress in retrieving a list of artists' albums. Anyway to bypass this?

I've tried retry libraries but still the same result.

Originally created by @shillshocked on GitHub (Oct 17, 2019). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/spotipy-dev/spotipy/issues/398 After several minutes it will eventually freeze. No errors, just no further progress in retrieving a list of artists' albums. Anyway to bypass this? I've tried retry libraries but still the same result.

kerem closed this issue

2026-02-27 23:21:32 +03:00

kerem commented

2026-02-27 23:21:32 +03:00

Author

Owner

@felix-hilden commented on GitHub (Oct 23, 2019):

Could you provide any additional information, like Artist ID?

@felix-hilden commented on GitHub (Oct 23, 2019): Could you provide any additional information, like Artist ID?

kerem commented

2026-02-27 23:21:32 +03:00

Author

Owner

@shillshocked commented on GitHub (Oct 23, 2019):

it's not specific to any URIs, it's just the way Spotipy is handling the connection.

I'm in an area with connectivity issues, so this is more of a problem for me than perhaps others. Nonetheless, the sessions code is not robust. I find that using a retrying (tenacity) decorator is the only way to handle this smoothly. I can also disable sessions in Spotipy but it still locks up on individual requests sometimes.

If I can implement a way to reset the adaptor in Python on failed requests, that would be the fastest way to address this. Connection resets when coupled with a retrying decorator will make it get over the hump without data loss handily.

Here is a way it is done with requests:

https://www.peterbe.com/plog/best-practice-with-retries-with-requests

I just can't figure out how to apply this example to Spotipy.

@shillshocked commented on GitHub (Oct 23, 2019): it's not specific to any URIs, it's just the way Spotipy is handling the connection. I'm in an area with connectivity issues, so this is more of a problem for me than perhaps others. Nonetheless, the sessions code is not robust. I find that using a retrying (tenacity) decorator is the only way to handle this smoothly. I can also disable sessions in Spotipy but it still locks up on individual requests sometimes. If I can implement a way to reset the adaptor in Python on failed requests, that would be the fastest way to address this. Connection resets when coupled with a retrying decorator will make it get over the hump without data loss handily. Here is a way it is done with requests: https://www.peterbe.com/plog/best-practice-with-retries-with-requests I just can't figure out how to apply this example to Spotipy.

kerem commented

2026-02-27 23:21:32 +03:00

Author

Owner

@shillshocked commented on GitHub (Oct 23, 2019):

Ah! This seems to help:

sp = spotipy.Spotify(client_credentials_manager=client_credentials_manager, requests_timeout=10)

@shillshocked commented on GitHub (Oct 23, 2019): Ah! This seems to help: sp = spotipy.Spotify(client_credentials_manager=client_credentials_manager, requests_timeout=10)

kerem referenced this issue

2026-02-28 00:01:57 +03:00

[PR #234] [CLOSED] Fix documentation typo #828