# Spotify Viral Hits and Top Songs (`gitlab/spotify-viral-charts-scraper`) Actor

Collects real tracks from official Spotify Top Songs charts or the Viral Hits editorial playlist. Each result is labeled with its source and ranking type.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/gitlab/spotify-viral-charts-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Gitlab](https://apify.com/gitlab) (community)
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$1.99 / actor start

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Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

## Spotify Viral Hits and Top Songs

Collect real track metadata from selected official Spotify playlists. The default **Top Songs** playlist is an official chart. The **Viral Hits** playlist is editorial; its order is not a Viral 50 chart ranking.

### Modes

| chartType | Result |
|---|---|
| viralHits | Global Spotify Viral Hits editorial playlist, with editorial playlist positions |
| top50 | Official Top Songs/Top 50 playlist for global, US, GB, DE or AU |
| viral50 | Stops with an unavailable-source error; no unverified playlist is substituted |

Owner and playlist title are checked before records are saved. Only the global supported modes were live-tested in this recovery; regional variants are not all validated.

### Input

```json
{"chartType":"top50","country":"global","maxItems":10}
```

Use `chartType: "top50"` for a Top Songs chart. Unsupported country/mode combinations stop instead of silently falling back to another country. Optional clientId/clientSecret must be supplied together; the legacy credential path was not live-tested. Public collection requires no credentials or browser session.

### Output

One row per track: position, chartType, country, playlist identity, rankingType, track name/ID/URL, artists/IDs, album/ID, release date when exposed, image, duration, explicit label, source playcount where exposed, source URL and timestamp. Release dates are enriched from each public album page when the playlist omits them. maxItems caps the total; public-page pagination beyond the exposed subset is not claimed.

### Local validation

Both global Viral Hits and global Top Songs returned ten real tracks with maxItems 10. The Actor remains partially working because a verified Viral 50 source is unavailable. No popularity scores, historical chart movement or weekly update schedule are inferred.

# Changelog

This Actor's version history is a separate document: https://apify.com/gitlab/spotify-viral-charts-scraper/changelog.md

# Actor input Schema

## `country` (type: `string`):

Country Code

## `chartType` (type: `string`):

top50 returns an official Top Songs chart; viralHits returns the Viral Hits editorial playlist, whose order is not a Viral 50 ranking. Legacy viral50 stops because no verified Viral 50 source is available.

## `clientId` (type: `string`):

Spotify Client ID

## `clientSecret` (type: `string`):

Spotify Client Secret

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of result items to return. The default is 10.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "country": "global",
  "chartType": "top50",
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `dataset` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing the records extracted by this Actor.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "country": "global",
    "chartType": "top50",
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("gitlab/spotify-viral-charts-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "country": "global",
    "chartType": "top50",
    "maxItems": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("gitlab/spotify-viral-charts-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "country": "global",
  "chartType": "top50",
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call gitlab/spotify-viral-charts-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,gitlab/spotify-viral-charts-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ecJfHdaDN3Vtcxwz0/builds/UNiaGbp5KsqTJqaFI/openapi.json