# Spotify Playlist Search: Find Curators to Pitch

**Use case:** 

Search Spotify playlists by genre or mood to find independent playlists to pitch. Keep 1,000+ followers, skip Spotify's editorial lists, and get followers, curator, curator's followers and last track added date. Contacts: Spotify has no contact field, so emails and handles appear only when curators write them in the description. In our test, 61% of playlists had a contact and 21% an email.

## Input

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3TVXtAsR1Inumwj472S9r4",
    "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M"
  ],
  "searchTerms": [
    "indie submissions",
    "lofi submissions",
    "chill submissions"
  ],
  "searchType": "playlists",
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 50,
  "scrapeDetails": true,
  "maxItemsPerResult": 0,
  "includeIsrc": false,
  "includeCredits": false,
  "includeDiscography": false,
  "compareWithPreviousRun": false,
  "minFollowers": 1000,
  "maxFollowers": 0,
  "excludeSpotifyPlaylists": true
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "imageUrl": {
    "label": "Image",
    "format": "image"
  },
  "name": {
    "label": "Playlist",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "followers": {
    "label": "Followers",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "trackCount": {
    "label": "Tracks",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "ownerName": {
    "label": "Owner",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "ownerFollowers": {
    "label": "Owner followers",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "lastTrackAddedAt": {
    "label": "Last track added",
    "format": "date"
  },
  "isSpotifyOwned": {
    "label": "By Spotify",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "Link",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "ownerUrl": {
    "label": "Owner link",
    "format": "link"
  }
}
```

## How it works

### 1. Sign up on Apify or log in

The Spotify Scraper: Artists, Tracks, Playlists, Podcasts Actor is ready to run with the inputs already set for "Spotify Playlist Search: Find Curators to Pitch". [Sign up or log in](https://console.apify.com/create-task-from-example/fgUC46YnIbWGWeGNc) and you'll land in Apify Console with a copy of this exact task.

### 2. Start the "Spotify Playlist Search: Find Curators to Pitch" task

The Spotify Scraper: Artists, Tracks, Playlists, Podcasts Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like spotify links, ids, isrcs or upcs, search terms, and more, to match your specific use case.

### 3. Receive the "Spotify Playlist Search: Find Curators to Pitch" output

Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as image, playlist, followers, and more.

### 4. Integrate into your workflow

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also [run the "Spotify Playlist Search: Find Curators to Pitch" task via API](https://apify.com/epicscrapers/spotify-scraper.md).

## FAQ

### How do I find Spotify playlists to submit my music to?

Enter your genre or mood as search terms, set a follower range and skip Spotify's own playlists. Then sort by last track added to pitch curators who still update their playlists.

### Which search terms work best?

Add 'submissions' to your genre ('lofi submissions'): curators who want pitches list contacts. Plain genres ('lofi') found contacts on only 12% of 300 playlists and emails on about 1%.

### Does it give curators' emails?

Only when the curator wrote one in the playlist description; Spotify has no contact field. Test with 'submissions' terms, Nov 2026: 150 playlists, 92 (61%) with any contact, 31 (21%) with an email. Most playlists have no email.

### Can I exclude Spotify's editorial playlists?

Yes. Skip Spotify's own playlists removes every playlist owned by Spotify, so only independent curators remain. Removed playlists are free.

### How do I tell if a playlist is still active?

Each row has lastTrackAddedAt, the date the curator last added a track. A playlist updated this month is worth a pitch; one untouched for a year is not.

### How many playlists can I get per search term?

Spotify returns about 200 per query. Set a higher maximum and the run adds related queries containing your term, so later results can drift slightly from it.

### Can I filter by follower count?

Yes. Set Min and Max playlist followers, for example 1,000 to 100,000 for playlists big enough to matter but small enough to answer.

### Can I get the curator profiles instead?

Yes. Change Search for to User profiles (curators). Each profile has its followers, public playlist count and its playlists with their followers.

### How much does it cost?

$0.004 per playlist that passes your filters. 300 playlists cost $1.20. Playlists removed by the filters are free, and there is no start fee.

### Is it allowed to contact curators this way?

The data is what Spotify shows to every visitor. Use contact details only to pitch relevant music, follow each curator's own rules and respect GDPR and similar laws.

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Spotify Scraper: Artists, Tracks, Playlists, Podcasts](https://apify.com/epicscrapers/spotify-scraper.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/epicscrapers/spotify-scraper.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/epicscrapers/spotify-scraper.md

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