Spotify Profile Scraper

Apify actor that scrapes public Spotify user profiles — display name, profile image, follower/following counts, and the public playlist library.

Built for Vana's data-pipe light-scrape path (the no-login, public-data lane — the analog of the Instagram profile scraper).

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
profileUrls	string[]	— (required)	Spotify user profiles: full URL (https://open.spotify.com/user/<id>), URI (spotify:user:<id>), or bare handle.
playlistLimit	integer	100	Max public playlists returned per profile (1–200).
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy	Proxy used to reach Spotify.

{
  "profileUrls": ["https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify", "barackobama"],
  "playlistLimit": 100
}

Output

One dataset item per profile:

{
  "user_id": "barackobama",
  "uri": "spotify:user:barackobama",
  "display_name": "Barack Obama",
  "profile_image": "https://i.scdn.co/image/5c5cc54bd034019326ff5f2e1dc51dcd83656efd",
  "followers_count": 360080,
  "following_count": null,
  "is_verified": true,
  "total_public_playlists_count": 4,
  "public_playlists_returned": 4,
  "public_playlists": [
    {
      "uri": "spotify:playlist:3DYdRhM1VrOkNNPPaYnkLc",
      "playlist_id": "3DYdRhM1VrOkNNPPaYnkLc",
      "name": "Official Inauguration Playlist",
      "image_url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/...",
      "followers_count": 11937,
      "owner_name": "Barack Obama",
      "owner_uri": "spotify:user:barackobama"
    }
  ],
  "recently_played_artists": [],
  "source_url": "https://open.spotify.com/user/barackobama",
  "scraped_at": "2026-05-22T12:00:00.000Z",
  "_method": "api"
}

Failed profiles produce an item with an error field (profile_not_found, profile_unavailable, invalid_input, scrape_failed) instead of crashing the run.

recently_played_artists is best-effort — present only for profiles that expose it; brand/label accounts return [].

How it works (robustness)

Two independent failure domains, so one Spotify change rarely breaks both:

• Path A (primary) — a real Chromium (CDP/Playwright) loads open.spotify.com; the web player fetches its own anonymous auth tokens, which the actor intercepts off the network. It then calls one stable internal JSON endpoint, user-profile-view/v3/profile/{id}. No TOTP secret, no GraphQL persisted-query hashes — nothing brittle to maintain.
• Path B (fallback) — if the API or tokens fail, the actor loads the profile page and reads the DOM via stable data-testid attributes only.

The _method field on each item records which path produced it.

Local development

npm install
# put test input in storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json
node src/main.js
# results land in storage/datasets/default/