Spotify Scraper: Play Counts, Monthly Listeners & Playlists

Get Spotify play counts (all-time streams) for tracks, albums, playlists and whole artist discographies, artist analytics (monthly listeners, followers, world rank, top cities, social links), and playlists and Spotify Charts with daily streams. Paste any mix of Spotify links and each one is scraped according to its type. Lyrics, song credits, audio features, podcasts, concerts and search are included too.

No Spotify account or API key is needed. You pay only for the rows you get: $1.00 per 1,000 results, less on paid Apify plans.

What does Spotify Scraper do?

Job	You paste	You get
Play counts	Track, album, playlist or artist links; ISRC codes	One row per track with a numeric playCount, plus album, label, release date and ISRC. Covers single tracks, every track on an album (with the album total), every track in a playlist, and an artist's whole discography.
Artist analytics	Artist links, or artist names	Monthly listeners, followers, world rank, top 5 cities, verified badge, bio, Instagram, X, Facebook and Wikipedia links, discography counts, latest release, top tracks with play counts, and related artists.
Playlists & charts	Playlist links; country codes	Playlist followers, owner and track count, and full tracklists with play counts and add dates. Spotify Charts by country: Top 200 with daily streams, Viral, top artists and top albums, each with rank change, peak and days on chart.

It also covers time-synced lyrics, song credits (writers and producers), audio features (tempo, key, energy, danceability, valence), podcast shows and episodes, Spotify search, concerts, recommendations, user profiles, and ISRC and UPC lookups. It can also find the matching track, album or artist on YouTube Music, Apple Music, Amazon Music and other platforms.

How to use Spotify Scraper

1. Paste Spotify links, spotify: URIs or IDs into Spotify links, IDs or keywords, one per line. You can mix tracks, albums, artists and playlists.
2. Leave Data category on Auto, or pick a category from the tables below. For example, playlist_play_counts returns every track of a playlist with its play count.
3. Click Start. Then open the dataset tabs (Overview, Tracks & play counts, Artists, Albums, Playlists, Charts, Concerts, Podcasts, Audio features) or export the results as CSV, Excel or JSON.

Auto: paste any Spotify link

auto is the default category. Each line is scraped according to the type of link, and plain text is searched on Spotify:

{
    "queries": [
        "https://open.spotify.com/track/0VjIjW4GlUZAMYd2vXMi3b",
        "https://open.spotify.com/album/4yP0hdKOZPNshxUOjY0cZj",
        "https://open.spotify.com/artist/06HL4z0CvFAxyc27GXpf02",
        "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M",
        "Daft Punk"
    ]
}

This input returns 5 rows (5 results, $0.005):

Line	Runs as	The row has
Track link	track	playCount, artists, album, release date, duration, ISRC, popularity
Album link	album	label, UPC, © and ℗ lines, album type, track count, popularity
Artist link	artist_overview	monthly listeners, followers, world rank, top cities, social links, discography counts
Playlist link	playlist	followers, owner, track count, description
Show or episode link	show or episode	publisher, episode count and languages; or duration, release date and the show
User or concert link	user_profile or partner_concert	followers and public playlists; or date, venue, lineup and tickets
Plain text (Daft Punk)	Spotify's top search hit, scraped as its type	the matched entity (an artist here), with resolvedFrom: "search" and matchedName
Bare 22-character ID	The type in Type of bare IDs (track by default)	as above

Auto accepts open.spotify.com links (including /intl-xx/, /embed/ and ?si= links), spotify: URIs, spotify.link short links and bare IDs, also inside quotes or brackets or followed by a comma, as pasted from a CSV or JSON list. If you enter the same track, album or artist twice, it is scraped and charged once.

Auto returns one row per link. To get every track of an album, a playlist or an artist, use the play-count categories below.

Play counts

Category	Paste	One row per	Columns besides playCount
track (also used by Auto)	Track links or IDs	track	artists, albumName, releaseDate, durationMs, isrc, popularity, explicit, trackNumber, imageUrl
album_play_counts	Album links	track on the album	albumName, albumType, label, copyrightC, copyrightP, releaseDate, albumTotalPlayCount, trackNumber
playlist_play_counts	Playlist links	track in the playlist	position, addedAt, playlistName, playlistOwner, albumName, artists, durationMs
artist_discography_play_counts	Artist links	track on the artist's albums, singles, EPs and compilations (newest first, each track once)	albumName, albumType, label, releaseDate, albumTotalPlayCount, trackNumber
artist_play_counts	Artist links	top track (up to 10)	topTrackRank, plus the artist's monthlyListeners, followers and worldRank
isrc	ISRC codes (USUG11904206)	ISRC code	the first track Spotify lists for the code, with the track columns. Other tracks with the same ISRC are in metadata.otherTrackIds
track_play_count	Track links or IDs	track	albumName, releaseDate, durationMs, explicit (one track per request; track is faster for long lists)

• playCount is an exact number, such as 5631276067. Spotify shows 0 until a track passes 1,000 streams.
• Album, playlist and discography categories return up to Max results per query rows per input (default 50, maximum 1,000). Raise it for long playlists and big discographies.
• In track_play_count, album_play_counts, playlist_play_counts, artist_play_counts and artist_discography_play_counts, a track that Spotify returns without a play count is skipped and not charged. track and isrc rows still arrive with their other columns if a play count cannot be read; RUN_SUMMARY counts them under playCounts.missing.

Every track of an artist's discography

{
    "category": "artist_discography_play_counts",
    "queries": ["https://open.spotify.com/artist/163tK9Wjr9P9DmM0AVK7lm"],
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 1000
}

Album play counts output sample

{
    "category": "album_play_counts",
    "query": "https://open.spotify.com/album/4yP0hdKOZPNshxUOjY0cZj",
    "name": "Alone Again",
    "artists": ["The Weeknd"],
    "playCount": 232644924,
    "albumName": "After Hours",
    "albumType": "album",
    "label": "Republic Records",
    "copyrightP": "℗ 2020 The Weeknd XO, Inc., marketed by Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.",
    "releaseDate": "2020-03-20T00:00:00Z",
    "trackNumber": 1,
    "durationMs": 250053,
    "explicit": true,
    "albumTotalPlayCount": 14241532644,
    "id": "6b5P51m8xx2XA6U7sdNZ5E",
    "url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/6b5P51m8xx2XA6U7sdNZ5E",
    "imageUrl": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e028863bc11d2aa12b54f5aeb36"
}

A playlist_play_counts row adds the track's place in the playlist:

{
    "category": "playlist_play_counts",
    "name": "Stop The Wedding!",
    "artists": ["Ashe"],
    "playCount": 90942260,
    "position": 1,
    "addedAt": "2026-09-04T04:02:23.110Z",
    "playlistId": "37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M",
    "playlistName": "Today’s Top Hits",
    "playlistOwner": "Spotify",
    "albumName": "Stop The Wedding!",
    "durationMs": 198840,
    "url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/3zOYmiNOuyDL0ClxJcEJ0T"
}

Artist analytics

artist_overview (Auto uses it for artist links) returns one row per artist:

{
    "category": "artist_overview",
    "name": "Taylor Swift",
    "monthlyListeners": 106764975,
    "followers": 165400798,
    "worldRank": 5,
    "verified": true,
    "topCities": [
        { "city": "London", "country": "GB", "region": "ENG", "listeners": 1714272 },
        { "city": "Quezon City", "country": "PH", "region": "00", "listeners": 1474171 }
    ],
    "instagramUrl": "https://instagram.com/taylorswift",
    "twitterUrl": "https://twitter.com/taylorswift13",
    "albumsCount": 34,
    "singlesCount": 80,
    "compilationsCount": 1,
    "latestRelease": { "id": "4hF2gTGuPYlykYuphDxi8J", "name": "The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore", "type": "album", "releaseDate": "2026-09-25" },
    "topTracks": [
        { "id": "1BxfuPKGuaTgP7aM0Bbdwr", "name": "Cruel Summer", "playCount": 3509373490 },
        { "id": "1u8c2t2Cy7UBoG4ArRcF5g", "name": "Blank Space", "playCount": 2631900405 }
    ],
    "relatedArtists": [
        { "id": "1McMsnEElThX1knmY4oliG", "name": "Olivia Rodrigo" },
        { "id": "74KM79TiuVKeVCqs8QtB0B", "name": "Sabrina Carpenter" }
    ],
    "id": "06HL4z0CvFAxyc27GXpf02",
    "url": "https://open.spotify.com/artist/06HL4z0CvFAxyc27GXpf02"
}

The sample is shortened. A real row has all 5 top cities, every link and gallery image, up to 10 top tracks and the related artists Spotify lists.

Category	One row per
artist_overview	artist: the columns above, plus description (bio), headerImageUrl, galleryImageUrls and externalLinks
artist_albums	album, with release date, type and track count
artist_singles	single or EP
artist_appears_on	release the artist appears on (Spotify returns up to 50)
artist_discovered_on	playlist where listeners discovered the artist (up to 50)
artist_featuring	playlist that features the artist
artist_related	related artist ("Fans also like")
artist_discography_overview	artist: album, single and compilation counts
artist_concerts	upcoming concert, with venue, address, coordinates and ticket links
artist	artist from Spotify's Web API: image and popularity. Spotify no longer returns followers there, so use artist_overview for them

Playlists and charts

Category	Paste	One row per
playlist	Playlist links	playlist: followers, ownerName, totalTracks, description, snapshotId
playlist_tracks	Playlist links	track: addedAt, artists, album, duration, and playCount when Spotify includes it
playlist_play_counts	Playlist links	track: playCount, position, addedAt, playlist name and owner
chart_top_200_tracks	Country codes	chart entry: rank, streams, previousRank, rankChange, peakRank, entryStatus, appearancesOnChart, peakDate, entryDate, artists, label
chart_viral_tracks	Country codes	chart entry: the same columns, without streams
chart_top_artists	Country codes	artist entry with rank movement
chart_top_albums	Country codes	album entry with rank movement, artists and label
chart_top_monthly_listeners	GLOBAL (the input is ignored)	one of the global Top 50 artists by monthly listeners: monthlyListeners as a whole number (129,800,000) and monthlyListenersMillions (129.8)
chart_top_followers	GLOBAL (the input is ignored)	one of the global Top 50 artists by followers
new_releases	Country codes	new album or single in that country

• Enter one country code per line, such as US, GB or MX, or GLOBAL for the worldwide chart. Lines that are not country codes are skipped with a warning; if none is left, the Market setting is used. new_releases needs a country, so GLOBAL does not work there.
• Leave Chart date empty for the latest chart, or enter YYYY-MM-DD for a past one.
• A chart comes in one request. Set Max results per query to 200 to get the whole Top 200 (the default is 50).
• The two Top 50 lists are the same worldwide, so each is fetched once per run whatever you enter.
• When Spotify has not updated a country's new-releases list for more than 30 days, the run delivers nothing for that country and charges nothing.

{
    "category": "chart_top_200_tracks",
    "queries": ["US", "GB"],
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 200
}

A Top 200 row:

{
    "category": "chart_top_200_tracks",
    "query": "US",
    "country": "US",
    "rank": 1,
    "name": "Nicole Kidman",
    "artists": ["ADÉLA"],
    "streams": 1098450,
    "previousRank": 1,
    "rankChange": 0,
    "peakRank": 1,
    "entryStatus": "NO_CHANGE",
    "appearancesOnChart": 38,
    "consecutiveAppearancesOnChart": 38,
    "peakDate": "2026-09-22",
    "entryDate": "2026-09-04",
    "label": "Capitol Records",
    "releaseDate": "2026-09-04",
    "id": "70cHKK8bHAfJrOGVnfRG9J",
    "url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/70cHKK8bHAfJrOGVnfRG9J"
}

More Spotify data

Category	Paste	One row per
track_lyrics	Track links	track: lyrics as plain text, with time-synced lines in data.lines
search_lyrics	Lyrics or song titles	the best-matching track, with its lyrics
track_credits	Track links	track: performers, writers, producers; full credits in data
audio_features	Track links or IDs (25 per request)	track: tempo, key, modality (major or minor), energy, danceability, valence, loudness, acousticness, instrumentalness, liveness, speechiness, timeSignature
recommendations	A seed track	recommended track (up to 100)
album, album_metadata	Album links	album: label, © and ℗ lines, type, track count, release date (album adds upc and popularity)
album_tracks	Album links	track on the album, with playCount
album_by_upc	UPC or EAN barcodes	the album with that barcode, with the album columns
show, show_episodes, episode	Podcast show or episode links	show (publisher, episode count, languages); every episode of a show; one episode
user_profile, user_followers	User links or usernames	profile (followers, public playlists); follower
search_multi, search_tracks, search_artists, search_albums, search_playlists, search_users, search_podcasts, search_episodes, search_genres	Keywords	search result, paged up to Max results per query
search_top_results, search_suggestions	Keywords	top result or autocomplete suggestion (up to 100)
search_concert_locations	City or place names	location, with the geoHash to use in concerts_by_location
concerts_by_location	Geohashes	concert in the next 12 months
search_concert_artists	Artist names	upcoming concert of the best-matching artist
partner_concert	Concert links	concert: date, venue, lineup, ticket providers
partner_track, partner_album, partner_playlist, partner_artist_overview, partner_artist_discography	Links	Spotify's full app object under data, for developers

Input

Field	Default	What it does
category	auto	What to scrape (see the tables above).
queries	—	Required. One input per line: links, URIs, IDs, keywords, country codes, ISRC or UPC codes, depending on the category.
defaultType	track	Auto only: how to read a bare 22-character ID (track, album, artist, playlist, show or episode).
maxResultsPerQuery	50	Rows per input for list categories, 1 to 1,000. Long lists are paged automatically.
concurrency	5	Inputs processed at once (1 to 20). A batch of IDs fetched in one request counts as one. The Actor slows down by itself when Spotify throttles.
delayMs	0	Pause after each input (or batch), in milliseconds.
market	US	2-letter country for regional results, and for charts when the input has no country code.
chartDate	—	YYYY-MM-DD for a past chart (empty: the latest). Also the start date of concerts_by_location.
geoHash	—	Location filter for artist_concerts and search_concert_artists.
enrichConcertDetails	—	Adds venue, address, coordinates and tickets to each concert, at one extra request per concert. On for artist concert categories unless you turn it off.
concertDetailsLimit	20	Concerts enriched per input (1 to 50).
parsedConcerts	false	Returns concert payloads in a simplified flat shape.
includeRaw	false	Keeps Spotify's full object under data and adds the whole response under raw (much larger rows).
enrichWithContrast	—	Adds the matching entity on ytmusic, applemusic, amazonmusic, pandora, gaana or tencent to track, album and artist rows, under contrast.

Output

Every row has category, query (the input as you entered it), scrapedAt, the flat columns shown above, and data, which holds Spotify's object for that row. Presentation-only blocks such as music videos and merch are left out of data unless includeRaw is on. Lists such as artists, topCities and topTracks stay as arrays in JSON. In CSV they become numbered columns.

The Output tab links the CSV without the nested data, raw, metadata and contrast payloads, the run summary, and the failed inputs. Through the API, add &omit=data,raw,metadata,contrast to the dataset items URL for the same lean CSV, or &fields=name,artists,playCount,url to pick columns.

Pricing

You pay per result. One result is one row in the dataset.

Discount tier	Per result	Per 1,000 results
Free Apify plan	$0.001	$1.00
Bronze	$0.0009	$0.90
Silver	$0.00075	$0.75
Gold, Platinum and Diamond	$0.0006	$0.60

Your discount tier follows your Apify subscription; paid plans get the lower prices.

• No start fee, no monthly rental and no platform usage charges.
• Failed inputs, invalid links, repeated entities, empty results and Spotify placeholder entries are never charged.
• Set a maximum cost per run, and the Actor stops at that amount without going over. The run summary says how many inputs were left.

Example run (Free plan prices)	Results	Cost
1 track link	1	$0.001
The 4 prefilled links (track, album, artist, playlist)	4	$0.004
Every track of a 14-track album (album_play_counts)	14	$0.014
Every track of a 150-track playlist (playlist_play_counts, max results ≥ 150)	150	$0.15
An artist's discography with 85 tracks (artist_discography_play_counts)	85	$0.085
The US Top 200 (chart_top_200_tracks, max results 200)	200	$0.20
10,000 track links	10,000	$10.00 ($6.00 at Gold)

FAQ

What is a Spotify play count?

It is the all-time number of streams Spotify shows next to each track on artist and album pages. Spotify counts a stream after 30 seconds of listening. This Actor returns it as playCount, an exact whole number.

Why is the play count 0?

Spotify shows a play count only after a track passes 1,000 streams, and reports 0 below that. New or niche releases read 0 until they cross the threshold. The row is still what Spotify publishes.

How fresh is the data?

Every run reads Spotify live. Spotify refreshes play counts about once a day, so two runs on the same day usually return the same number. To track growth, schedule the Actor (for example daily) and compare playCount, monthlyListeners or followers per id across scrapedAt.

How many results can I get?

• Up to 1,000 rows per input in list categories (Max results per query, default 50). Lists are paged automatically.
• Single entities (a track, an album, an artist profile, a playlist) are one row per input.
• artist_appears_on and artist_discovered_on return at most 50 rows, because Spotify stops there.
• search_top_results, search_suggestions and recommendations return up to 100 rows.
• There is no limit on inputs per run. A run stops early only at your maximum cost per run, or 30 seconds before its timeout, so the summary is always saved. Inputs left out are counted in RUN_SUMMARY.

Why did an input fail, and was I charged?

Failed inputs are never charged. Each one is listed in the ERRORS record of the run's key-value store, with the reason and a kind:

• permanent: retrying cannot help. Spotify has no data for the input (an unknown ID, a track without lyrics, a search with no results), or the input does not fit the category. For example, an artist link under track fails at once, without a request, with a hint to use auto or artist_overview.
• transient: a temporary problem on Spotify's side or ours. It is retried with backoff, and tried once more at the end of the run when time allows.
• internal: a bug in this Actor. Please report it on the Issues tab.

The run's status message sums it up, for example "Delivered 4 items; 1 query had no data on Spotify … and was not charged." A run ends FAILED only when it delivered nothing and a temporary error remained, so Apify's retry and alert settings can react.

What is in RUN_SUMMARY?

RUN_SUMMARY lists:

• the inputs planned, repeats removed and inputs ignored;
• the categories that Auto routed to;
• rows delivered;
• failures split into transientErrors, permanentErrors and internalErrors, and the failed inputs;
• warnings for inputs that delivered only part of their rows;
• whether the maximum cost per run or the timeout cut the run short;
• Spotify placeholder entries that were skipped;
• the outcome and status message.

Find it on the Output tab or in the run's key-value store.

Why did I get fewer rows than expected?

• Max results per query defaults to 50. Raise it for long playlists, discographies, charts and search.
• Repeated entities are scraped and charged once.
• Spotify sometimes puts placeholder entries (errors, unavailable items) in its lists. These are skipped and not charged.
• Spotify personalizes some editorial playlists, so pages can overlap. Repeated tracks are left out and not charged, and a warning appears in RUN_SUMMARY.
• In the play-count categories, tracks without a play count are skipped.

Why is followers empty on artist rows?

Spotify's Web API no longer returns artist followers or genres. Use artist_overview (Auto does this for artist links). It has followers, monthly listeners, world rank and top cities.

What does linkedFromId mean?

Spotify sometimes relinks a track to another version that is playable in your market. The row then describes the playable track (id), and linkedFromId is the ID you entered.

How fast is it?

Track and artist links are fetched 50 per request, albums 20 and audio features 25. Long lists are paged 3 pages at a time, and rows are saved in batches. Most runs finish within seconds. When Spotify throttles, the Actor slows down by itself and speeds up again afterwards.

Do I need a Spotify account or API key?

No. You only need an Apify account.

Is the service up?

Check the status page, which monitors the Spotify data API behind this Actor.

Is it legal to scrape Spotify?

This Actor reads only what Spotify shows publicly: play counts, charts, artist pages, playlists. Some categories (user profiles, followers) return the public profile data of Spotify users. Make sure your use of the data complies with Spotify's terms and with the data-protection laws that apply to you, such as GDPR.

Use the API

This call starts a run, waits for it and returns the rows. Synchronous calls wait up to 5 minutes; for large runs, use the clients below.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/eduair94~spotify-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?omit=data,raw&maxTotalChargeUsd=1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"queries": ["https://open.spotify.com/track/0VjIjW4GlUZAMYd2vXMi3b", "https://open.spotify.com/artist/06HL4z0CvFAxyc27GXpf02"]}'

maxTotalChargeUsd caps the cost of the run.

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-scraper').call({
    category: 'artist_discography_play_counts',
    queries: ['https://open.spotify.com/artist/163tK9Wjr9P9DmM0AVK7lm'],
    maxResultsPerQuery: 1000,
});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
for (const item of items) console.log(item.albumName, item.name, item.playCount);

Python, with the apify-client package:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("eduair94/spotify-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "category": "playlist_play_counts",
        "queries": ["https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M"],
        "maxResultsPerQuery": 100,
    }
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["position"], item["name"], item["playCount"])

You can also schedule runs, get a webhook when a run finishes, and send results to Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier and other tools with Apify integrations.

Use cases

• Music marketing: measure what a release, a playlist placement or a viral moment did to a track's streams.
• A&R and talent scouting: compare artists by monthly listeners, world rank and top cities, and spot breakout tracks.
• Royalty estimates and catalog valuation: sum the play counts of a whole discography or an album (albumTotalPlayCount) before buying, financing or licensing a catalog.
• Playlist pitching: find the playlists that feature an artist or where listeners discover them, with each playlist's followers and owner.
• Chart tracking: collect daily Top 200 streams and rank movement per country on a schedule.
• Research: lyrics, credits, audio features and podcast catalogs as clean tables.

Related

• Spotify Play Count Scraper: a simpler input form for play counts only.
• Service status of the Spotify data API behind this Actor.
• Need the same data from your own backend, outside Apify? The underlying API is available on RapidAPI or with a direct API key. See the API documentation.