429: API rate limit exceeded

[Civanbudakk10]

Civan $ python -m zotify track https://open.spotify.com/track/70CWF9eT1tXx7gID9oYt3x?si=fR8c_EjgRteZOTAcPzKPfg --bulk-wait-time 45

[∙●∙] Logging in...                           

WARNING: No valid content_id found in track, skipping...
[∙●∙] Fetching track information...
{}
{'id': '70CWF9eT1tXx7gID9oYt3x', 'name': 'fıs?', 'artists': ['KAVAK', 'BAKAN'], 'artist_ids': ['24OGdBr3r58ksMLJkMXZZY', '3pELTNcBXbfHktNPFTUsNW'], 'release_date': '2025-08-22', 'year': '2025', 'track_number': '01', 'total_tracks': '01', 'album': 'fıs?', 'album_artists': ['KAVAK', 'BAKAN'], 'disc_number': '1', 'compilation': 0, 'duration_ms': 136486, 'image_url': 'https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2731feb941ef64c8c04826e99a4', 'is_pl[∙●∙] Preparing download...
CRITICAL:Librespot:AudioKeyManager:Audio key error, code: 1
CRITICAL:Librespot:AudioKeyManager:Audio key error, code: 1

ERROR: FAILED TO FETCH AUDIO KEY
MAY BE CAUSED BY RATE LIMITS - CONSIDER INCREASING BULK_WAIT_TIME ### | 0/2 [00:01<?, ?url/s]
GID: e654b4dd9cb446c1864e41e5ca259c8f - File_ID: a9c0d86702f84cc9d14bc130c63e117a88f1d061
ERROR: SKIPPING SONG - FAILED TO GET CONTENT STREAM
Track_ID: 70CWF9eT1tXx7gID9oYt3x

I can't download it.

[colceagus]

any updates?

[mortalis13]

Same error, but a bit different output, don't even get the track info.
For the same track, only using the credentials.json.

python -m zotify --credentials-location credentials.json track https://open.spotify.com/track/70CWF9eT1tXx7gID9oYt3x?si=fR8c_EjgRteZOTAcPzKPfg --bulk-wait-time 45

        [●∙∙] Fetching track information... Spotify API Error (429): API rate limit exceeded

###   SKIPPING SONG - FAILED TO QUERY METADATA   ###
Track_ID: 70CWF9eT1tXx7gID9oYt3x


Invalid response from TRACKS_URL:
{
  "error": {
    "status": 429,
    "message": "API rate limit exceeded"
  }
}

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\01\venv\Lib\site-packages\zotify\track.py", line 158, in download_track
    track_number, scraped_song_id, is_playable, duration_ms) = get_song_info(track_id)
                                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "c:\01\venv\Lib\site-packages\zotify\track.py", line 55, in get_song_info
    raise ValueError(f'Invalid response from TRACKS_URL:\n{raw}')
ValueError: Invalid response from TRACKS_URL:
{
  "error": {
    "status": 429,
    "message": "API rate limit exceeded"
  }
}

[carlyd95]

Also having the same issue. I have an automated script and it has not ran for the past 4 days. I had to redo my credentials.json and after that I am getting the same error:

`

WARNING: API ERROR (TRY 0) - RETRYING

429: API rate limit exceeded

[∙∙●] Fetching track information...                                            

WARNING: API ERROR (TRY 1) - RETRYING

429: API rate limit exceeded

    [∙∙∙] Fetching track information...                                                                                                                     

API_ERROR: API ERROR (TRY 2) - RETRY LIMIT EXCEDED

429: API rate limit exceeded

    [●∙∙] Fetching track information...                                                                                                                     

ERROR: SKIPPING SONG - FAILED TO QUERY METADATA

Track_ID: 1Jo0Zg7XlrA6z0mFTZVdkn

`

[Marc0svi55an1]

same here! is this related to the fact that someone downloaded all spotify´s content?

[carlyd95]

same here! is this related to the fact that someone downloaded all spotify´s content?

Dang! I just looked that up, maybe!

[carlyd95]

Looks there is a fix here by a forked version since this repo is not actively maintained.

Googolplexed0#135

[Marc0svi55an1]

It worked great! luckly i had a developer API already created for homeassistant that i didnt use, so ive modified the uri redirect and its working fine.

[id0ntplaygam3s]

https://developer.spotify.com/blog/2026-02-06-update-on-developer-access-and-platform-security

Looks like we will be able to create a developer API soon?