Spotify Playlist Scraper

Export public Spotify playlists to JSON, CSV or Excel: the playlist's followers, owner and track count, then every track with its position, play count and date added. Paste playlist links or find playlists by keyword, run once or on a schedule, and see added or removed tracks since your last run. No Spotify account and no API key.

Unofficial; not affiliated with Spotify. This Actor reads public playlists as the Spotify web player shows them to any visitor.

What does Spotify Playlist Scraper do?

Each playlist you enter (or find with a keyword) gives you:

• One playlist row (rowType: "playlist"): name, followers, totalTracks, owner (ownerName, ownerId), description, cover (imageUrl), isEditorial (Spotify's own playlists such as Today's Top Hits) and snapshotId, Spotify's revision of the playlist.
• One row per track (rowType: "track"), in playlist order: position, name, artists, playCount (all-time Spotify streams), addedAt, albumName, durationMs, explicit and the track's Spotify link. Turn Include tracks off and you get the playlist rows only.
• Keyword search (searchTerms): the playlists Spotify's search returns for a term, each with the term and its place in the results.
• Change tracking (trackChanges): followers gained or lost since your previous run, and the songs added to or removed from every playlist since the last run that read it whole.

Whole playlists are read in batches of 500 entries, up to 10,000 tracks per playlist, so a 300-song playlist takes one request.

How to scrape a Spotify playlist

1. Copy the playlist's link in Spotify (Share → Copy link to playlist) and paste it into Playlists, one per line. spotify:playlist: URIs, playlist IDs and spotify.link short links work too, and so does a list of links pasted on one line (separated by spaces, commas or semicolons).
2. Set Max tracks per playlist to at least the playlist's length if you want every song (the default reads the first 100).
3. Click Start, then open the Playlists or Tracks view in the Output tab, or download everything as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

Each playlist's row comes first, followed by all of its tracks in playlist order; the next playlist starts after them. Every track row also carries playlistId and playlistName, so one export holds both. Filter by rowType in your spreadsheet to split them.

Find Spotify playlists by keyword

Put keywords in Search terms (searchTerms): lofi study, workout, indie pop, a genre, a mood or an artist's name. Each term adds the first Max playlists per search (maxPlaylistsPerSearch) playlists Spotify finds, in Spotify's order, and each playlist row records its searchTerm and searchRank (1 = first result). Spotify ranks playlists per country: set Search market (market) to search as a listener in, for example, GB or MX would.

Keyword results mix Spotify's editorial playlists with playlists by curators, labels and listeners; isEditorial and ownerName tell them apart. A playlist that two terms (or a term and a link) both return is fetched and charged once. A playlist link typed under Search terms is read as a playlist, not searched as text.

Track playlist changes: added and removed songs

1. Turn on Track changes (trackChanges) and set a History store name (historyStoreName), for example editorial-watchlist.
2. Set Max tracks per playlist at least as high as your longest playlist, so every run reads whole playlists.
3. Save the input as a task and schedule it daily or weekly.

From the second run on, each playlist row says how its followers moved since the last run (previousFollowers, followersChange, previousScrapedAt) and lists tracksAdded and tracksRemoved since the last complete run (previousCompleteScrapedAt), each as {id, name, artists}; each track row says whether the song was added or kept (change). The history is kept in a key-value store in your own Apify account, one record per playlist.

A complete run is one that read the whole playlist. tracksRemoved is only filled when this run and an earlier one both did: a song past Max tracks per playlist is not gone, just not read. A run that is not complete (Include tracks off, a lower Max tracks per playlist, a page Spotify did not answer) still updates the followers but keeps the last complete track list, so the next complete run compares with it. Give each schedule its own history store: two schedules that share a store and a playlist overwrite each other's record of it.

Input

Field	What it does	Default
playlists	Playlist links (open.spotify.com/playlist/…, spotify.link short links too), spotify:playlist: URIs or playlist IDs, one per line. A repeated playlist is fetched and charged once.	none
searchTerms	Keywords that find playlists, one per line.	none
maxPlaylistsPerSearch	Playlists each search term adds, in Spotify's order (1 to 100).	20
includeTracks	One row per track besides the playlist row. Off: playlist rows only.	true
maxTracksPerPlaylist	Playlist entries read per playlist, in playlist order (1 to 10,000).	100
trackChanges	Compare each playlist with its previous run and add the change columns.	false
historyStoreName	The key-value store in your account that keeps the previous runs for Track changes.	spotify-playlist-history
market	Two-letter country code the keyword search runs in.	US

Enter playlists, search terms or both. Example input:

{
    "playlists": [
        "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M",
        "spotify:playlist:0vvXsWCC9xrXsKd4FyS8kM"
    ],
    "searchTerms": ["lofi study"],
    "maxPlaylistsPerSearch": 2,
    "maxTracksPerPlaylist": 500
}

Output

A playlist row (Today's Top Hits, read on 2026-11-01):

{
    "rowType": "playlist",
    "playlistId": "37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M",
    "name": "Today’s Top Hits",
    "followers": 33643877,
    "totalTracks": 50,
    "ownerName": "Spotify",
    "ownerId": "spotify",
    "description": "The hottest 50. Cover: Tame Impala",
    "isEditorial": true,
    "imageUrl": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67706f00000002960019ea66cba66a44fdd4c2",
    "url": "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M",
    "snapshotId": "AAAAAIT6ToT/+IebTegHazxc0z6HwIFk",
    "input": "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M",
    "searchTerm": null,
    "searchRank": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-01T08:00:01.512Z"
}

Its first track row:

{
    "rowType": "track",
    "playlistId": "37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M",
    "playlistName": "Today’s Top Hits",
    "position": 1,
    "id": "7bxaFZ1O3cHkgLKMsdC3xR",
    "name": "Loser",
    "artists": ["Tame Impala"],
    "playCount": 369156638,
    "addedAt": "2026-08-07T04:02:23.096Z",
    "artistIds": ["5INjqkS1o8h1imAzPqGZBb"],
    "albumName": "Deadbeat",
    "albumId": "5WulAOx9ilWy1h8UGZ1gkI",
    "durationMs": 223069,
    "explicit": true,
    "imageUrl": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273208500450dcd0fd294d7bd3b",
    "url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/7bxaFZ1O3cHkgLKMsdC3xR",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-01T08:00:01.512Z"
}

Playlist row field	Meaning
rowType	playlist here, track on track rows.
playlistId, name, url	The playlist's Spotify ID, name and page.
followers	How many Spotify users follow (save) the playlist.
totalTracks	Entries on the playlist, as Spotify counts them.
ownerName, ownerId	The owner's display name and Spotify username.
description, imageUrl	The description as plain text, and the cover.
isEditorial	true for Spotify's own playlists.
snapshotId	Spotify's revision of the playlist: a new value means tracks were added, removed or moved.
input, searchTerm, searchRank	The line you entered, or the search term that found the playlist and its place in the results.
scrapedAt	When the playlist was read.
previousFollowers, followersChange, previousScrapedAt	Track changes: followers at the last run, the difference, and when that run was.
tracksAdded, tracksRemoved, previousCompleteScrapedAt	Track changes: songs added and removed since the last complete run, and when that run was.

Track row field	Meaning
playlistId, playlistName, position	The playlist the track is on and its place there (1 = top).
id, name, url	The track's Spotify ID, name and page.
artists, artistIds	The credited artists and their Spotify IDs.
playCount	All-time Spotify play count (streams) of the track.
addedAt	When the track was added to the playlist.
albumName, albumId, imageUrl	The album the track is from, and its cover.
durationMs, explicit	Length in milliseconds and the explicit flag.
change	Track changes: added or kept.

The Output tab has three views: Playlists, Tracks, and Changes since the last run. Apify views cannot filter rows, so with Include tracks on the Playlists view lists the track rows too: turn it off, or filter by rowType, for playlists only. The Playlists and tracks (CSV) link in the Output tab leaves out the nested tracksAdded, tracksRemoved and artistIds lists, which would spread over many columns; the JSON link and the regular dataset downloads keep them. Podcast episodes and local files on a playlist get no row, and the tracks around them keep their Spotify positions.

How much does it cost to scrape Spotify playlists?

You pay per playlist, not per row. The playlist event covers the playlist row and up to 100 of its tracks; longer playlists add one tracks-page event for every further 100 tracks. Your price follows your Apify plan:

Apify plan	playlist: a playlist with up to 100 tracks	tracks-page: each further 100 tracks
Free	$0.003 ($3.00 per 1,000)	$0.0015 ($1.50 per 1,000)
Bronze	$0.0027 ($2.70 per 1,000)	$0.00135 ($1.35 per 1,000)
Silver	$0.0024 ($2.40 per 1,000)	$0.0012 ($1.20 per 1,000)
Gold, Platinum and Diamond	$0.002 ($2.00 per 1,000)	$0.001 ($1.00 per 1,000)

Each run also has Apify's start fee of $0.00005, and Apify covers the first 5 seconds of every run's compute. There is no monthly rental and no charge for platform usage.

Example (Free plan)	Events	Cost
The prefilled run: 3 playlists, 20 tracks each	3 playlist	$0.009 + $0.00005 start
Today's Top Hits with all 50 tracks	1 playlist	$0.003
A 300-track playlist	1 playlist + 2 tracks-page	$0.006
A 10,000-track playlist	1 playlist + 99 tracks-page	$0.1515
1,000 playlists without tracks (includeTracks off)	1,000 playlist	$3.00
50 playlists of up to 100 tracks, checked daily for 30 days	1,500 playlist	$4.50

Never charged: playlists that do not exist or are private, links to tracks or albums, broken IDs, searches that find nothing, repeated playlists, and playlists Spotify did not answer for. Set a maximum cost per run and the Actor stays within it: every playlist it starts keeps its place in the budget, no new playlist or page starts once the rest of the budget cannot cover it, and it never charges more than your maximum. Tracks past the budget are left out, and the run summary counts the playlists cut short.

FAQ

How many followers does a Spotify playlist have?

Spotify shows the follower count (the number of users who saved the playlist) on every public playlist, and followers holds it as an exact number. Today's Top Hits had 33,643,877 on 2026-11-01. With Track changes on and a daily schedule, followersChange gives you the daily growth of any playlist.

Can I scrape editorial playlists like Today's Top Hits?

Yes. Spotify's editorial and algorithmic playlists (IDs starting with 37i9dQZ) work like any other public playlist, with followers and every track, and isEditorial marks them.

Why does the track order of editorial playlists change?

Spotify personalizes the order of some editorial playlists for each listener and each request, so two runs can list the same songs in a different order. The Actor reads up to 500 entries per request to get one consistent order; if pages of a very long playlist still overlap, repeated songs are left out (and not charged) and the run summary says so. To compare runs, use tracksAdded and tracksRemoved rather than position.

Why is a play count 0?

Spotify shows a play count only once a track passes 1,000 plays, so playCount: 0 means fewer than 1,000 plays, not that nobody listened. New and niche songs read 0 until they cross the threshold. An empty playCount (null) means Spotify sent no count at all, which happens for tracks that are unavailable.

Can I scrape private playlists or my own library?

No. Only public playlists can be read. A private, deleted or mistyped playlist is listed in ERRORS with the reason and is not charged. Liked Songs and the rest of a personal library are not playlists, so they cannot be read either.

Do I need a Spotify account or API key?

No. You only need an Apify account; the Actor never asks for your Spotify login. Spotify's own Web API does not return play counts at all, which is why the playCount column is useful.

What happens with a wrong link or a search without results?

The run goes on. Each failed line is listed in the ERRORS record of the run's key-value store with the reason and charged: false, and the status message counts them. Temporary Spotify errors are retried, then tried once more at the end of the run (a page of a long playlist gets one more try after a short pause). A run fails only when it delivered no playlist because of such an error, or because its timeout ran out before any playlist was read, so Apify's retry and alert settings can react; nothing is charged then.

Is it legal to scrape Spotify playlists?

The Actor reads public playlist data that Spotify shows to every visitor: titles, followers, tracks and their public play counts. It collects no personal data about listeners. Make sure your use of the data complies with Spotify's terms and the laws that apply to you.

Use it from the Apify API

Start a run and get the rows in one call (synchronous calls wait up to 5 minutes):

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/eduair94~spotify-playlist-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?maxTotalChargeUsd=1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"playlists": ["https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M"], "maxTracksPerPlaylist": 50}'

JavaScript, with the apify-client package:

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
const run = await client.actor('eduair94/spotify-playlist-scraper').call({
    searchTerms: ['indie pop'],
    maxPlaylistsPerSearch: 10,
    includeTracks: false,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
for (const playlist of items) console.log(playlist.searchRank, playlist.name, playlist.followers, playlist.ownerName);

Python, with the apify-client package:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("eduair94/spotify-playlist-scraper").call(
    run_input={"playlists": ["https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M"], "maxTracksPerPlaylist": 100}
)
for row in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if row["rowType"] == "track":
        print(row["position"], row["name"], row["playCount"], row["addedAt"])

Schedules, webhooks and integrations (Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier) work like for any Apify Actor, and AI agents can call it through Apify's MCP server.

Use cases

• Playlist pitching: find the playlists that fit a release by keyword, rank them by followers, and check what kind of songs (and how many streams) each one carries before you pitch.
• Curator research: build a list of independent curators for a genre with ownerName, follower counts and track counts, and drop the editorial ones with isEditorial.
• Label A&R: see which new songs editorial playlists add every week, and how many plays they already have.
• Playlist monitoring: a daily check of your placements: get told when a song is added or dropped (tracksAdded, tracksRemoved) and watch follower growth.
• Music data analysis: export full tracklists with play counts and add dates for research on playlists, genres and charts.

Related Spotify scrapers

• Spotify Scraper: Play Counts, Monthly Listeners & Playlists: tracks, albums, artists, charts, lyrics and podcasts, from links or keywords.
• Spotify Play Count Scraper: play counts for every track of an artist's discography, an album or a playlist, one row per track.
• Spotify Monthly Listeners Scraper: monthly listeners, followers, world rank and top cities, 50 artists per request.
• Spotify Artist Scraper: full artist profiles with biography, social links, top tracks and related artists.
• Spotify Charts Scraper: Top 200, top artists and top albums by country, daily or weekly, with streams.