pyspotify: Fetch all albums of an artist

pyspotify_fetch_albums.py

import spotify
import threading

logged_in_event = threading.Event()
def connection_state_listener(session):
    if session.connection.state is spotify.ConnectionState.LOGGED_IN:
        logged_in_event.set()

session = spotify.Session()
session.on(
    spotify.SessionEvent.CONNECTION_STATE_UPDATED,
    connection_state_listener)

username = input('Username: ')
password = input('Password: ')

session.login(username, password)
while not logged_in_event.wait(0.1):
    session.process_events()

artistname = input('Artist: ')
search = session.search('artist:"{0}"'.format(artistname))
search.load()
artist = search.artists[0]

artistbrowse = artist.browse(type=spotify.ArtistBrowserType.NO_TRACKS)
artistbrowse.load()

print("Albums by {0} ({1}):".format(artist.name, artist.link))

for album in artistbrowse.albums:
    if album.is_available:
        print("\t{0} ({1}) ({2})".format(album.name, album.year, album.link))

Can you do album.is_available: if you have not first ensured the album is loaded? Particularly since NO_TRACKS will apparently only load album references.

Oh, it seems you can. my bad. (it's not 'just references', but everything except tracks).