'Using pagination with the Spotify search API

I'm working on a program that pulls up random songs within a specified genre on Spotify. Each track is denoted by an random 'offset' inside the search query, per the Spotify docs here. But I'm unable to put a number higher than 999 in this (like the total number of songs marked under a genre), otherwise the request 404's.

They talk about using offset "with limit to get the next page of search results" in the docs above, but changing limit to any number 1-50 still returns the same song, it's the offset that matters.

Here's a snippet of my code where I make the final request:

               random_offset = str(random.randint(0, 999))
            if (int(random_offset) > total):
                random_offset = str(random.randint(1, total))
            genre_results = requests.get(BASE_URL + '?q=genre%3A%22%20' + rand_genre + '%22&type=track&offset=' + random_offset + '&limit=1', headers=headers)
            genre_results_json = genre_results.json()

Is there anything I can do to use pagination to perhaps randomly iterate through pages of results if Spotify has any, or am I limited to 1000 tracks in my query?

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Couldn't you copy the code you have but change the random integer limits?

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