I'm trying to use the Spotify objective-c library to search for a specific song that belongs to an artist, album. I don't want to use the searchWithSearchQuery method (which works ok) because I want to be more specific. There is a method called searchWithURL shown below. I don't see any documentation as to how to structure these URLs. All it says is that it must start with spotify:search. What comes after that? How do I specify a artist, album, song? Thanks!
/** Creates a new SPSearch with the default page size from the given Spotify search URL.
This convenience method is simply returns a new, autoreleased SPSearch
object. No caching is performed.
@warning If you pass in an invalid search URL (i.e., any URL not
starting `spotify:search:`, this method will return `nil`.
@warning The search query will be sent to the Spotify search service
immediately. Be sure you want to perform the search before creating the object!
@param searchURL The search URL to create an SPSearch for.
@param aSession The SPSession the track should exist in.
@return Returns the created SPSearch object.
*/
+(SPSearch *)searchWithURL:(NSURL *)searchURL inSession:(SPSession *)aSession;
Search URLs are created by
SPSearch
instances after you create them, and they basically encode the query you passed the first time. So,searchWithURL:
isn't going to be more useful to you than creating a search with a query.However, to answer your wider question, you can use the Spotify Advanced Search Syntax with
SPSearch
to do a more accurate search.For example, to find tracks exactly named "Roar":
To find tracks exactly named "Roar" by Katy Perry:
...and so on. Check out the linked page for more details.