Getting 502 response on DELETE for /playlist/<playlistid/tracks

[simpamusic]

Plan

Premium

Country

Sweden

Device

Fairphone 5, Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Gen 6

Operating System

Arch Linux

My Question or Issue

I have a long running app that clears and updates a playlist every day with a new album. It has been working pretty good for a couple of weeks but for the last two days, starting 18th of February 2025 i get 502 when the code is trying to delete the tracks from the playlist. I can manually delete from the playlist and programatically add songs to the playlist but upon deletion i get a 502 response code.
Any comments on this or are there others with the same problem?

[oeco]

Came here because of the same issue. Started today (20 Feb). Hoping this is not an indication of further downgrades to the API...

[chinthaka_kasun]

happening to me as well, throwing 502 error for playlists.updatePlaylistItems in @spotify/web-api-ts-sdk nodejs library.

[waxmusique]

same here, what's going on?

[jmdev7]

same here guys! any help ??

[sortlee]

This started happening yesterday 2025-02-19. Obviously a small but very critical bug. The issue I see is that for some reason, the API no longer allows us to send an empty array of URIs, which we use to clear out playlists.

Request:

Request URL:
https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/1hbQPncZYRPC8z2mojU7Uf/tracks
Request Method:
PUT
Status Code:
502 Bad Gateway
Remote Address:
[Intentionally omitted]
Referrer Policy:
strict-origin-when-cross-origin

Payload:

{uris: []}

 Response:

{"error": {"status": 502, "message": "" } }

Thank you Spotify.

[jmdev7]

I am making the request with a non-empty array, however i keep receiving the same error 502 regardless.

[AniPure]

It seems to be working again now

[jmdev7]

At least for me, It is not yet.

[liberalatheist]

Nothing has been fixed for me. Trying to delete an array of URI's (which worked flawlessly before) continues to fail since the second week of February 2025 C.E.

[simpamusic]

Yeah it's the same for me. 502 on Delete.  This feature is a critical part of my app so a fix would be nice

[krrm]

I get this response on my HTTP delete requests:

Server error(DELETE https://api.spotify.com/v1/playlists/3SFpdBUPONFuKFs87gsRm1/tracks: 502 Bad Gateway. Text: "{"error": {"status": 502, "message": "Error while loading resource" } }"

[liberalatheist]

That is exactly the error I get now, consistently.

[zwisler]

I have the same Problem 

"{"error": {"status": 502, "message": "Error while loading resource" } }"

[PotaPotat0]

I got a 502 error when specifying snapshot_id. When snapshot_id is deleted, it is deleted normally, but is this a specification change or a bug? . .

[liberalatheist]

I had tried using an empty snapshot_id (because I assumed "snapshot_id"
was required in the array), but in response to your post, I tried
altogether eliminating "snapshot_id" from the deletion array, and that
worked. Thanks a lot.

[simpamusic]

Yes I also thought that snapshot_id was required so i previously just sent an empty string which obviously worked before. But now i removed the snapshot_id from the request body and the Delete request works.

[krrm]

Removing snapshot_id also solve my issue 🙃