Beatport releases cannot be fetched without URL slug

[chaban-mb]

Apparently some Beatport releases only work if the URL slug is included. When replacing it like Harmony with a hyphen they no longer work and return a 404:

• https://www.beatport.com/release/vice-of-life/258577
• https://www.beatport.com/release/airbreath/230760
• https://www.beatport.com/release/share-the-tears-2010/214132
• https://www.beatport.com/release/continuum/213716
• https://www.beatport.com/release/lost-in-a-dream/214369
• https://www.beatport.com/release/curiosity/965147
• https://www.beatport.com/release/the-beat/890265
• https://www.beatport.com/release/in-this-whole-world/831431
• https://www.beatport.com/release/stealin-love-the-remixes/818555
• https://www.beatport.com/release/every-emotion/320976
• https://www.beatport.com/release/every-emotion/315580
• https://www.beatport.com/release/heavy-session/192174

I have noticed that they do work from my location (DE) when logged into my account regardless of the slug being present.
It also seems some or all (didn't test each one) are region restricted so using the Beatport API would be recommended.

[kellnerd]

Hmm, when I run a local (DE) development server, Harmony is able to lookup the first release which doesn't load on the production server (FR).
So this seems to be a regional restriction unfortunately, which is not related to the slug (fortunately, because this would require fundamental changes and would have left lots of broken permalinks behind).

Since there are more and more unfixable Beatport bugs piling up, we should really look into having an API-based provider implementation (in addition to the legacy HTML scraper).
But since I'm not using Beatport personally, this is low on my priority list.

[chaban-mb]

That's strange, I can no longer reproduce it locally but I'm certain it didn't not work without the slug in an incognito tab.
I've also tested it with some online tools that take screenshots:

• https://testlocal.ly/tests/68fcb83f680e29f418066dac
• https://testlocal.ly/tests/68fcb879a03fbe41f00ca9ed
• https://geopeeker.com/fetch/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.beatport.com%2Frelease%2F-%2F258577&csrf_token=ahXn%2F4TNWuB5kZ%2F3Z4Hnj6RxLMoZJgZS6OupiM6cqP8%3D
• https://geopeeker.com/fetch/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.beatport.com%2Frelease%2Fvice-of-life%2F258577&csrf_token=ahXn%2F4TNWuB5kZ%2F3Z4Hnj6RxLMoZJgZS6OupiM6cqP8%3D
• https://pagespeedplus.com/tools/screenshots/result?hash=d561ed5fca6f74d5ae3e7f769f233123
• https://pagespeedplus.com/tools/screenshots/result?hash=83812e1107e3400b2eb2d6c5e8b9f34a

[whyman]

This is not working for me with this link I tried just now:

https://www.beatport.com/release/everybody-wants-you-feat-sam-fischer/2530227