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Dinesh R.2's avatar
Dinesh R.2
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10 years ago

Webhooks delay

We have been using webhooks in our app for processing changes to a user's library. We have run into an issue with the v2 /list_folder/continue with cursor calls.   Whenever we get a user_id from ...
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Greg-DB's avatar
Greg-DB
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10 years ago

Thanks! That's likely the cause here then. The media information can take some time to generate, before which the entries can't be returned for these cursors. We're always working to keep these delays to a minimum, but they can vary. Unfortunately I don't have a perfect solution to offer here, but you may want to just automatically retry after a little time when this happens.

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