Spotify API get track info based on track name?

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Is there a way to query the spotify
API in order to get information about a
track/artist/album/playlist based on its
name.

E.g. query for track=I need a
hero&artistName=... and get a URI/ID and some
information about the track.

I couldn't find
anything like this in the documentation. Am I overlooking something ?

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Answer

You can use the href="https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/search-item/" rel="nofollow
noreferrer">search API endpoint, by specifying an artist and a track
parameters, then extract the track ID from the response if there is only one
match:

curl -X GET
            "https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=track:I%20need%20a
            hero%20artist:the%20artist&type=track"