script runs (eventually hits API quota) but no songs downloaded

[chalda]

OS: win10
run with spotify_dl.exe -l https://open.spotify.com/playlist/44u43xW485DUdqZVApCANu?si=eMaxtbcgRPCfM6WdcaoYRQ -o .\SpotifyMusic\

seems to work, i get a lot of messages like:

INFO: 2019-10-20 15:19:48,226 - fetch_youtube_url - Searching for Recreational Beats - Stillhead
INFO: 2019-10-20 15:19:48,227 - method - URL being requested: GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?q=Recreational+Beats+-+Stillhead&part=id%2C+snippet&key=<api_key_redacted>&alt=json
INFO: 2019-10-20 15:19:48,649 - _retrieve_discovery_doc - URL being requested: GET https://www.googleapis.com/discovery/v1/apis/youtube/v3/rest

eventually hits google API quota. but then i checked the folder and dont see any actual music in it. What could be wrong?

[SathyaBhat]

the script first uses the Google APIs to build up a list of songs to download and then downloads them - it is possible you hit the API quota due to the sheer number of songs. What error messages are you seeing when it fails?

[chalda]

yeah thats probably it. this is a playlist of 1k songs (Discover weekly archive 😂)
would it makes sense to change the arch to query and download one song at a time this way i can actually donwload the playlist after a few runs as oppose to never getting to the end of the "initial" phase. Do the gAPI results get cached into anything? otherwise any decently large playlist will never get over the initial gAPI query hump

[SathyaBhat]

Turns out the quota limits have been drastically reduced

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15568405/youtube-api-limitations/15580411#15580411

UPDATE: Decreased the quota numbers from 1M to 10K per day as of January 11, 2019.

that's why we're running out of quota so fast.

[barda123]

I have just run into this same problem (attempting to get an 800-song playlist). Is there a workaround which would allow either (a) splitting the playlist up or (b) downloading 1 song at a time rather than processing the whole playlist first?

[SathyaBhat]

@barda123 I've been thinking of ways of getting around this - having a separate key for read/search operations might help.

[SathyaBhat]

I've updated to remove my custom YT search in favour of youtube-dl which was anyway doing the heavy lifting.

Update the app

pip install spotify_dl --upgrade