Spotify Scraper

Extract structured data from Spotify — tracks, artists, albums and playlists — by keyword search or direct URL. Get the fields most scrapers skip: ISRC codes per track and UPC codes per album, alongside monthly listeners, followers, play counts, durations, release dates, popularity and images. Clean JSON, no API key, no login.

Not affiliated with Spotify. Reads public catalog data from Spotify's own web and mobile backends for research, analytics and interoperability.

Who it's for

• Labels, distributors & rights teams — map Spotify IDs to ISRC/UPC codes for royalty matching, catalog reconciliation and metadata QA.
• Artist marketers, A&R & analysts — track monthly listeners, followers, play counts, top tracks and discography size across artists.
• Playlist & curation teams — pull playlist metadata and tracklists.
• SaaS / data teams & researchers — a stable, documented JSON feed with no API key and an MCP endpoint for AI agents.

What you get (output fields)

Every row has a type (track / artist / album / playlist) plus common identity fields and type-specific data.

Field	Type	Applies to	Description
type	string	all	track, artist, album or playlist
spotifyId / uri / url	string	all	Spotify identifiers and open.spotify.com link
name	string	all	Entity name
artists / artistNames	array / string	track, album	Contributing artists
albumName / albumId	string	track	Parent album
durationMs / durationText	int / string	track	Length
isrc	string	track	International Standard Recording Code
popularity	int	track, album	Spotify popularity 0–100
playCount	int	track	Lifetime stream count
explicit	bool	track	Explicit flag
followers	int	artist, playlist	Follower count
monthlyListeners	int	artist	Monthly listeners
worldRank	int	artist	Global popularity rank
biography	string	artist	Artist bio
topTracks	array	artist	Top tracks with play counts
topCities	array	artist	Top listener cities
externalLinks	array	artist	Social / external links
albumCount / singleCount / compilationCount	int	artist	Discography sizes
label	string	album	Record label
releaseDate	string	album	Release date (YYYY-MM-DD)
upc	string	album	Universal Product Code
totalTracks	int	album, playlist	Track count
copyrights	array	album	Copyright lines
ownerName / ownerUsername	string	playlist	Playlist owner
description	string	playlist	Playlist description
tracks	array	album, playlist	Embedded tracklist (optional)
imageUrl	string	all	Cover / avatar image
scrapedAt	string	all	UTC ISO-8601 timestamp

Use cases

• Royalty & catalog reconciliation — export ISRC/UPC ↔ Spotify ID mappings to match your catalog against streaming metadata.
• Artist monitoring — schedule daily runs to track monthly listeners, followers and play-count momentum for a roster of artists.
• Playlist intelligence — capture playlist followers and tracklists for pitching and placement analysis.
• Music datasets — build search-driven datasets for ML, recommendation or trend research.
• Metadata enrichment — feed clean track/album metadata into your app or DB.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchQueries	array	—	Keywords to search Spotify for
startUrls	array	—	Direct track/artist/album/playlist URLs or URIs
resultTypes	array	all	Types to keep from search: tracks, artists, albums, playlists
maxItems	integer	100	Stop after this many rows
searchLimit	integer	20	Items per type per query (1–50)
includeISRC	boolean	true	Add ISRC/UPC + popularity (one extra request per entity)
includeAlbumTracks	boolean	false	Embed album tracklists
includePlaylistTracks	boolean	false	Embed playlist tracks
playlistTrackLimit	integer	100	Cap embedded playlist tracks
market	string	US	ISO country code
locale	string	en	Language for text fields
proxyConfiguration	object	none	Optional Apify proxy (not required)

Provide at least one of searchQueries or startUrls.

Example input

{
  "searchQueries": ["daft punk"],
  "startUrls": ["https://open.spotify.com/album/4m2880jivSbbyEGAKfITCa"],
  "resultTypes": ["tracks", "artists", "albums"],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "includeISRC": true,
  "includeAlbumTracks": true
}

Example output (artist row)

{
  "type": "artist",
  "spotifyId": "4tZwfgrHOc3mvqYlEYSvVi",
  "uri": "spotify:artist:4tZwfgrHOc3mvqYlEYSvVi",
  "url": "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4tZwfgrHOc3mvqYlEYSvVi",
  "name": "Daft Punk",
  "verified": true,
  "followers": 11652253,
  "monthlyListeners": 29432983,
  "worldRank": 0,
  "topTracks": [{ "name": "One More Time", "uri": "spotify:track:0DiWol3AO6WpXZgp0goxAV", "playCount": 946944562 }],
  "albumCount": 6,
  "imageUrl": "https://i.scdn.co/image/...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-05T07:38:27+00:00"
}

Scheduling & integrations

• Schedule runs (hourly/daily/weekly) from the Apify Console to keep datasets fresh.
• Webhooks can fire on run completion to push new data into your pipeline.
• Export to CSV, JSON, Excel, XML or pull via the Apify API; connect to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, Airbyte or S3.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This actor is available over Apify's MCP interface, so assistants like Claude or ChatGPT can call it as a tool — e.g. "get the ISRC and monthly listeners for these Spotify artists". Point your MCP client at the Apify MCP server and enable this actor.

FAQ

Do I need a Spotify API key or account? No. The actor reads public catalog data anonymously.

How fresh is the data? Every run fetches live data from Spotify at run time.

What is ISRC / UPC? ISRC is the International Standard Recording Code that uniquely identifies a recording; UPC identifies a release. Both are used across the music industry for royalties and catalog matching.

Can it handle large jobs? Yes — set maxItems, and the actor checkpoints progress so interrupted runs resume without duplicating rows. For extracting every track from big playlists, use the companion Spotify Playlist Track Extractor.

Is a proxy required? No. Spotify's endpoints have no anti-bot here; a proxy is optional for a specific egress region.

Is this legal / allowed? You are responsible for your use. This tool accesses publicly available data; review Spotify's terms and your local laws before scraping, and use the official Spotify API where it fits.

A field is empty — why? Fields only appear when Spotify provides them for that entity (e.g. playCount for tracks, monthlyListeners for artists). Null fields are omitted from each row.