Spotify Scraper — Play Counts, Monthly Listeners, Albums & Playlists

Scrape Spotify tracks with play counts, artists with monthly listeners and top cities, albums and playlists — from links or keyword search. Get stream counts for every track of an album or playlist, an artist's top 10 tracks with their plays, world rank, followers, biography and social links, album labels, UPCs and copyrights, and playlist followers. No Spotify account, no login and no developer key. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull the data through the API.

What does Spotify Scraper do?

Spotify Scraper reads the public data that the Spotify web player shows to anyone and returns it as clean rows. Each row has a type:

• Tracks — name, artists, album (name, release date, cover), duration, explicit flag, play count (total streams), popularity (0–100), track and disc number, ISRC, 30-second preview MP3 URL, and for playlist tracks the position and the date the track was added.
• Artists — monthly listeners, followers, world rank, top 5 cities with listener counts, genres, popularity, verified badge, biography, profile/header/gallery images, social links (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia…), top 10 tracks with play counts, up to 20 related artists ("Fans also like"), and the number of albums, singles and compilations.
• Albums — name, type (album/single/compilation/EP), release date, label, copyrights, UPC, popularity, artists, cover images, number of tracks, the total play count of the album and a track list with each track's play count.
• Playlists — name, description, owner, followers, number of tracks and cover.
• Search — enter keywords and choose tracks, artists, albums or playlists; every result comes with the same details as a link would.

Artists, albums and playlists can be expanded into one row per track (on by default), so a single playlist link gives you every song with its play count.

Use cases

• Music marketers and labels — track play counts of your releases and your competitors' over time, and see which cities listen most to an artist before planning a tour or ads.
• Artist managers and A&R — compare monthly listeners, followers and world rank across a roster, or scout fast-growing artists from search results.
• Playlist pitching and curators — measure playlist reach (followers) and see which tracks a playlist added recently and how big they are.
• Music data analysts and researchers — build datasets of tracks with ISRC, release dates, labels and stream counts for catalog valuation or trend analysis.
• Rights and royalty teams — match catalog by ISRC/UPC and estimate streams per track.
• Content creators and media — pull up-to-date stream counts and top tracks for articles, charts and social posts.

How much does it cost?

You pay only for the rows you get (pay-per-event). Duplicates and rows over your maxItems limit are never charged.

Event	What you pay for	Free plan	Paid plans (from)
track	One track row with play count	$1.00 per 1,000	$0.50 per 1,000
artist	One artist row (monthly listeners, top cities, top tracks…)	$2.00 per 1,000	$1.50 per 1,000
album	One album row (label, UPC, track list with play counts)	$2.00 per 1,000	$1.50 per 1,000
playlist	One playlist row (owner, followers, track count)	$2.00 per 1,000	$1.50 per 1,000

"Paid plans (from)" is the Gold-and-above price; Bronze and Silver plans sit in between. Apify also charges a tiny actor-start fee ($0.00005 per run).

Worked examples (Free plan prices):

1. Play counts of a 500-song playlist — 1 playlist row + 500 track rows: 1 × $0.002 + 500 × $0.001 = $0.50 (Gold: $0.25).
2. Weekly report on 100 artists with their top tracks — 100 artist rows + 1,000 top track rows: 100 × $0.002 + 1,000 × $0.001 = $1.20 per week (Gold: $0.65).

The Apify Free plan includes $5 monthly credit, enough for about 5,000 tracks with play counts every month.

How to use Spotify Scraper

In Apify Console:

1. Open Spotify Scraper and click Try for free.
2. Paste links into Spotify URLs — tracks, albums, artists or playlists, copied from the Spotify app ("Share" → "Copy link") or from open.spotify.com. The form is prefilled with an artist and a playlist. Or type keywords into Search queries and pick what to search for.
3. Choose whether artists, albums and playlists should also be expanded into track rows (all on by default) and, if you like, a cap per source.
4. Click Start. The prefilled input finishes in a few seconds; a run with 1,250 rows (including a 1,000-track playlist) took under a minute.
5. Open the Output tab and export the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

Through the API:

1. Get your API token in Apify Console → Settings → Integrations.
2. Call the actor with your input JSON (see Integrations and API).
3. Read the dataset items from the run.

Input

Fill in startUrls, searchQueries or both.

Field	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	array	–	Track, album, artist or playlist links (https://open.spotify.com/album/..., with or without ?si=, /intl-xx/ or /embed/) or URIs (spotify:playlist:...).
searchQueries	array	–	Keywords to search on Spotify.
searchType	string	track	What searches return: track, artist, album or playlist.
maxSearchResults	integer	20	Results per query (1–1000).
includeArtistTopTracks	boolean	true	Also output each artist's top tracks (up to 10) as track rows.
includeAlbumTracks	boolean	true	Also output each album's tracks as track rows.
includePlaylistTracks	boolean	true	Also output each playlist's tracks as track rows.
maxTracksPerSource	integer	0	Cap on track rows per artist, album or playlist; 0 = all.
maxItems	integer	1000	Hard cap on all rows in the run.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy	Proxy settings; the default works.
debug	boolean	false	Log every request.

Example — an artist profile with top tracks, a full album and the first 200 songs of a playlist:

{
    "startUrls": [
        "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Z8W4fKeB5YxbusRsdQVPb",
        "https://open.spotify.com/album/6dVIqQ8qmQ5GBnJ9shOYGE",
        "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M"
    ],
    "maxTracksPerSource": 200
}

Example — top 100 "lofi study" tracks with play counts:

{
    "searchQueries": ["lofi study"],
    "searchType": "track",
    "maxSearchResults": 100
}

Example — monthly listeners of the artists found for two keywords, without track rows:

{
    "searchQueries": ["k-pop", "afrobeats"],
    "searchType": "artist",
    "maxSearchResults": 50,
    "includeArtistTopTracks": false
}

Output

Examples below come from a real run on 2026-11-05 (long fields shortened).

Track

{
    "type": "track",
    "id": "70LcF31zb1H0PyJoS1Sx1r",
    "uri": "spotify:track:70LcF31zb1H0PyJoS1Sx1r",
    "url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/70LcF31zb1H0PyJoS1Sx1r",
    "name": "Creep",
    "artists": [{ "id": "4Z8W4fKeB5YxbusRsdQVPb", "name": "Radiohead" }],
    "album": {
        "id": "3gBVdu4a1MMJVMy6vwPEb8",
        "name": "Pablo Honey",
        "releaseDate": "1993-02-22",
        "images": [{ "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273ec548c00d3ac2f10be73366d", "width": 640, "height": 640 }]
    },
    "durationMs": 238640,
    "explicit": true,
    "playCount": 3232528965,
    "popularity": 94,
    "trackNumber": 2,
    "discNumber": 1,
    "isrc": "GBAYE9200070",
    "previewUrl": "https://p.scdn.co/mp3-preview/f3d864283774529a2378100c912bfacb614db751",
    "playable": true,
    "context": { "type": "artist", "id": "4Z8W4fKeB5YxbusRsdQVPb", "name": "Radiohead" },
    "position": null,
    "addedAt": null,
    "source": "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Z8W4fKeB5YxbusRsdQVPb"
}

Playlist tracks have context.type: "playlist", position (1 = first song) and addedAt (e.g. "2026-08-07T04:02:23.096Z"). Search results have context: null and source: "search: lofi study".

Artist

{
    "type": "artist",
    "id": "4Z8W4fKeB5YxbusRsdQVPb",
    "url": "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Z8W4fKeB5YxbusRsdQVPb",
    "name": "Radiohead",
    "verified": true,
    "followers": 17486682,
    "monthlyListeners": 46341281,
    "worldRank": 80,
    "topCities": [
        { "city": "London", "country": "GB", "region": "ENG", "listeners": 691086 },
        { "city": "Mexico City", "country": "MX", "region": "CMX", "listeners": 682018 }
    ],
    "genres": ["art rock", "alternative rock"],
    "popularity": 87,
    "biography": "Radiohead are a touchstone for all that is fearless and adventurous in rock…",
    "images": [{ "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6761610000e5eb959527d2fabc9c64287e57b9", "width": 640, "height": 640 }],
    "headerImage": { "url": "https://image-cdn-fa.spotifycdn.com/image/ab6761860000eab163fffb29c4a76743c90bfea3", "width": 2660, "height": 1140 },
    "externalLinks": [
        { "name": "INSTAGRAM", "url": "https://instagram.com/radiohead" },
        { "name": "TWITTER", "url": "https://twitter.com/radiohead" }
    ],
    "topTracks": [
        { "id": "70LcF31zb1H0PyJoS1Sx1r", "name": "Creep", "playCount": 3232528965, "albumId": "3gBVdu4a1MMJVMy6vwPEb8" },
        { "id": "10nyNJ6zNy2YVYLrcwLccB", "name": "No Surprises", "playCount": 1492684298, "albumId": "6dVIqQ8qmQ5GBnJ9shOYGE" }
    ],
    "albumsCount": 15,
    "singlesCount": 30,
    "compilationsCount": 0,
    "relatedArtists": [
        { "id": "3yY2gUcIsjMr8hjo51PoJ8", "name": "The Smiths", "url": "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3yY2gUcIsjMr8hjo51PoJ8" }
    ],
    "source": "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Z8W4fKeB5YxbusRsdQVPb"
}

Album

{
    "type": "album",
    "id": "6dVIqQ8qmQ5GBnJ9shOYGE",
    "url": "https://open.spotify.com/album/6dVIqQ8qmQ5GBnJ9shOYGE",
    "name": "OK Computer",
    "albumType": "ALBUM",
    "releaseDate": "1997-05-28",
    "label": "XL Recordings",
    "copyrights": [{ "text": "1997 XL Recordings Ltd", "type": "C" }],
    "totalTracks": 12,
    "artists": [{ "id": "4Z8W4fKeB5YxbusRsdQVPb", "name": "Radiohead" }],
    "upc": "634904078164",
    "popularity": 90,
    "totalPlayCount": 4859932935,
    "tracks": [
        { "id": "7c378mlmubSu7NGkLFa4sN", "name": "Airbag", "trackNumber": 1, "discNumber": 1, "durationMs": 287880, "explicit": false, "playCount": 107766812 }
    ],
    "source": "https://open.spotify.com/album/6dVIqQ8qmQ5GBnJ9shOYGE"
}

Playlist

{
    "type": "playlist",
    "id": "37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M",
    "url": "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M",
    "name": "Today’s Top Hits",
    "description": "The hottest 50. Cover: Tame Impala",
    "owner": { "id": "spotify", "name": "Spotify", "url": "https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify" },
    "followers": 33626504,
    "totalTracks": 50,
    "images": [{ "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67706f00000002960019ea66cba66a44fdd4c2", "width": null, "height": null }],
    "source": "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M"
}

Field notes:

• playCount is Spotify's all-time stream count of the track, as shown in the Spotify app.
• releaseDate follows Spotify's precision: 1997-05-28, 1997-05 or 1997.
• popularity is Spotify's 0–100 score; worldRank is null for artists outside the ranking.
• previewUrl is a 30-second MP3; Spotify does not offer previews for every track.
• source is the link or search that produced the row.

Integrations and API

Run the actor and get the rows back in one call:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/innolabs~spotify-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"startUrls": ["https://open.spotify.com/album/6dVIqQ8qmQ5GBnJ9shOYGE"]}'

Python with apify-client:

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("innolabs/spotify-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "startUrls": ["https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M"],
        "maxTracksPerSource": 100,
    }
)
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    if item["type"] == "track":
        print(item["position"], item["name"], item["playCount"])

• Make, Zapier, n8n — start the actor from a scenario and send rows to Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion or Slack.
• Scheduling — create a daily or weekly schedule in Apify Console to build a history of play counts and monthly listeners.
• Webhooks — trigger your pipeline when a run finishes.
• AI agents (MCP) — connect Claude, Cursor or other MCP clients through the Apify MCP server at https://mcp.apify.com and let your agent look up Spotify stats on demand.

FAQ

Do I need a Spotify account or API key?

No. The scraper uses only what the public Spotify web player shows to visitors who are not logged in. You do not need a Spotify account, a developer app or an API key.

How fresh are play counts and monthly listeners?

They are read live at run time. Spotify updates play counts about once a day and monthly listeners daily (a rolling 28-day count), so a daily schedule captures every change.

Can I get all tracks of a big playlist?

Yes. Playlists are read 100 tracks at a time up to their full length (Spotify allows up to 10,000 tracks). Use maxTracksPerSource or maxItems to keep the cost under control.

What if a link is wrong or an item was removed?

Each link is processed on its own. A wrong link, a removed album or an unsupported page (podcasts, user profiles) is listed in the run log and in the run's SUMMARY record, and the rest of the run continues. You are not charged for failed items. If every input fails, the run is marked as failed with the reason.

Is it legal to scrape Spotify?

The scraper only collects public catalog data (tracks, artists, albums, public playlists) that Spotify shows to anyone without logging in, and no personal account data. Make sure your use of the data complies with Spotify's terms and the laws that apply to you.

Do I need proxies?

No setup is needed. The default Apify Proxy setting works, and the scraper waits and retries automatically when Spotify rate-limits.

Limits

• Podcasts, episodes, audiobooks and user profiles are not supported; short spotify.link links must be opened first and the open.spotify.com link copied.
• Artist top tracks are Spotify's top 10 for the artist; full discographies are not expanded (add the album links you need).
• Each track is delivered once per run, except playlist tracks, which are delivered once per playlist so every playlist's track list stays complete. A track already delivered from an artist's top tracks is not repeated in that artist's album.
• previewUrl is filled for search results, single tracks, artist top tracks, the first 100 tracks of an album and the first 100 tracks of a playlist; later playlist tracks have null.
• Search returns at most 1,000 results per query (Spotify's search depth).
• Genres and popularity come from a second Spotify service; if it rate-limits a large run, the remaining rows keep all other fields and leave genres, popularity, isrc and upc empty instead of failing.