Spotipy.search is returning incorrec Artist Info when limit set to 1

[XavaarQ]

Describe the bug
Spotipy.search is returning incorrect Artist Info when limit set to 1 for example information for Drake is returned when Taylor swift is searched. If limit is set >1 then the first entry is the correct artist.

Your code
spotipy = spotipy.Spotify(auth_manager=SpotifyOAuth(scope=scope))
spotipy.search(q='Taylor Swift', type='artist', limit=1)

Expected behavior
Artist info for the artist searched for should be returned when limit is set to 1

Output

{'artists': {'href': 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=Taylor+Swift&type=artist&offset=0&limit=1',
  'items': [{'external_urls': {'spotify': 'https://open.spotify.com/artist/3TVXtAsR1Inumwj472S9r4'},
    'followers': {'href': None, 'total': 84483099},
    'genres': ['canadian hip hop',
     'canadian pop',
     'hip hop',
     'pop rap',
     'rap'],
    'href': 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/3TVXtAsR1Inumwj472S9r4',
    'id': '3TVXtAsR1Inumwj472S9r4',
    'images': [{'height': 640,
      'url': 'https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6761610000e5eb4293385d324db8558179afd9',
      'width': 640},
     {'height': 320,
      'url': 'https://i.scdn.co/image/ab676161000051744293385d324db8558179afd9',
      'width': 320},
     {'height': 160,
      'url': 'https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6761610000f1784293385d324db8558179afd9',
      'width': 160}],
    'name': 'Drake',
    'popularity': 96,
    'type': 'artist',
    'uri': 'spotify:artist:3TVXtAsR1Inumwj472S9r4'}],
  'limit': 1,
  'next': 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?query=Taylor+Swift&type=artist&offset=1&limit=1',
  'offset': 0,
  'previous': None,
  'total': 2}}

Environment:

• OS: Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS
• Python version 3.9.18
• spotipy version 2.23.0
• VScode

Additional context
This function was returning correct info yesterday Feb 29th, 2024

[dieser-niko]

This is more or less a problem with Spotify's API, not Spotipy. It also seems to be fixed now, at least I couldn't replicate the issue.

[dieser-niko]

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