Spotify Play Count Scraper & API

Spotify Play Count Scraper & API

Extract the exact Spotify play count (total stream count) for any artist, album, or track from a single open.spotify.com URL — the number Spotify's own Web API never exposes — plus monthly listeners, followers, world rank, top cities, full discography, and biography.

Paste any Spotify artist, album, or track URL and get back exact stream counts per track, monthly listeners, follower counts, global rank, the top 5 listener cities, the complete discography with play counts, artist biography, and social links — as structured JSON plus a flat play_counts.csv.

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Spotify Play Count Scraper & API (parsebird/spotify-play-count-scraper) extracts exact Spotify play counts (stream counts) and statistics from open.spotify.com URLs. Inputs: urls (array of open.spotify.com/{artist|album|track}/{id} URLs, required), followAlbums (boolean, default false — for an artist URL also scrape every album), followSingles (boolean, default false — also scrape every single/EP), followPopularReleases (boolean, default false — also scrape the curated popular releases), scrapePreviewUrls (boolean, default false — return each track's 30-second preview URL instead of its stream count), proxyConfiguration (object, default Apify Proxy). Output per URL: a track / album / artist record. Track: id, name, streamCount, duration (ms), contentRating, trackNumber, album{...tracklist}, artists[]. Album: id, name, albumType, releaseDate, artists[], label, copyright[], tracks[] (each with streamCount), coverArt[], moreAlbums[]. Artist: id, name, verified, followers, monthlyListeners, worldRank, topCities[], topTracks[] (with streamCount), albums[], singles[], popularReleases[], biography, externalLinks[], coverArt[]. Also writes play_counts.csv (one row per track: artist_url, artist_name, album_url, album_name, track_url, track_name, play_count) to the key-value store. Pricing: pay-per-event, $0.0038/URL on Free down to $0.0032/URL on Gold. API: https://apify.com/parsebird/spotify-play-count-scraper/api - Token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

What is Spotify Play Count Scraper?

Spotify Play Count Scraper is an Apify Actor that pulls exact stream counts and analytics for Spotify artists, albums, and tracks straight from the data behind open.spotify.com. It is the practical Spotify API alternative for play-count data: Spotify's official Web API returns only a relative 1–100 popularity score and no stream counts at all, while this Actor returns the real play count that Spotify displays next to each track.

Give it one or more Spotify URLs — https://open.spotify.com/artist/…, /album/…, or /track/… — and it returns clean JSON for each, plus a flat play_counts.csv. No Spotify account, API key, or sp_dc cookie required.

What can Spotify Play Count Scraper do?

• 🔢 Exact play counts — the real total stream count per track, not a popularity score.
• 🎤 Artist analytics — monthly listeners, follower count, global world rank, verified status, and the top 5 listener cities with country and listener numbers.
• 💿 Full album data — every track with its stream count, plus label, copyright (C and P), release date, contributing artists, and cover art in multiple resolutions.
• 🎼 Track detail — stream count, duration, explicit flag, track number, and the full parent-album tracklist.
• 📚 Discography expansion — for an artist URL, optionally follow and scrape every album, single/EP, or curated popular release.
• 🎧 Preview URLs — switch to preview mode to collect the 30-second audio preview URL for every track.
• 📈 Change tracking — schedule recurring runs (hourly, daily, weekly) to build a time series of play counts and monthly listeners.
• ⚡ Runs on Apify with API access, webhooks, integrations, and export to JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or XML.

What data can you extract from Spotify?

Field	Where	Description
streamCount	track, album tracks, artist top tracks	Exact total number of Spotify plays
monthlyListeners	artist	Current monthly listener count
followers	artist	Total Spotify followers
worldRank	artist	Global rank by monthly listeners
verified	artist	Whether the artist profile is verified
topCities	artist	Top 5 listener cities with country and listener count
topTracks	artist	10 most popular tracks, each with stream count and duration
albums / singles / popularReleases	artist	Discography lists with ID, name, type, and release date
biography	artist	Full artist biography text
externalLinks	artist	Social media links (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, …)
label / copyright	album	Record label and C / P copyright notices
releaseDate	album, track, releases	Full release date
duration	track	Track length in milliseconds
contentRating	track	none or explicit
coverArt	artist, album	Images in multiple resolutions
previewUrl	tracks (preview mode)	30-second audio preview URL

How to get Spotify play counts

1. Open Spotify Play Count Scraper on Apify Store and click Try for free.
2. Copy a Spotify link — from the desktop app or web player, use Share → Copy link to artist / album / song.
3. Paste one or more URLs into Spotify URLs.
4. (Optional) For an artist URL, turn on Follow albums, Follow singles, or Follow popular releases to also scrape those releases.
5. Click Start. Each URL is processed in a few seconds.
6. Open the Dataset tab for the JSON, or the Storage tab for play_counts.csv. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or XML.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
urls	array	Yes	—	Spotify artist, album, or track URLs (any open.spotify.com link)
followAlbums	boolean	No	false	For artist URLs, also scrape every album in the discography
followSingles	boolean	No	false	For artist URLs, also scrape every single and EP
followPopularReleases	boolean	No	false	For artist URLs, also scrape the curated "Popular releases" list
scrapePreviewUrls	boolean	No	false	Return each track's 30-second preview URL instead of its stream count
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Apify Proxy	Proxy settings for the run

Input example

{
    "urls": [
        "https://open.spotify.com/artist/7Ln80lUS6He07XvHI8qqHH",
        "https://open.spotify.com/album/1XkGORuUX2QGOEIL4EbJKm",
        "https://open.spotify.com/track/2x8evxqUlF0eRabbW2JBJd"
    ],
    "followAlbums": false,
    "followSingles": false,
    "followPopularReleases": false,
    "scrapePreviewUrls": false
}

Output example

Track

{
    "type": "track",
    "id": "2x8evxqUlF0eRabbW2JBJd",
    "spotifyUrl": "https://open.spotify.com/track/2x8evxqUlF0eRabbW2JBJd",
    "name": "Fluorescent Adolescent",
    "streamCount": 1221647852,
    "duration": 183893,
    "contentRating": "none",
    "trackNumber": 5,
    "album": {
        "id": "1XkGORuUX2QGOEIL4EbJKm",
        "name": "Favourite Worst Nightmare",
        "type": "album",
        "releaseDate": "2007-04-22",
        "tracks": [{ "id": "7f9I5WdyXm5q1XqnSYgQZb", "trackNumber": 1 }]
    },
    "artists": [{ "id": "7Ln80lUS6He07XvHI8qqHH", "name": "Arctic Monkeys" }]
}

Artist (abridged)

{
    "type": "artist",
    "id": "7Ln80lUS6He07XvHI8qqHH",
    "name": "Arctic Monkeys",
    "verified": true,
    "followers": 35381594,
    "monthlyListeners": 55872649,
    "worldRank": 48,
    "topCities": [{ "country": "GB", "city": "London", "numberOfListeners": 976819 }],
    "topTracks": [{ "id": "5XeFesFbtLpXzIVDNQP22n", "name": "I Wanna Be Yours", "streamCount": 3961364689, "duration": 183956, "contentRating": "none" }],
    "albums": [{ "id": "78bpIziExqiI9qztvNFlQu", "name": "AM", "type": "album", "releaseDate": "2013-09-09" }],
    "externalLinks": [{ "label": "instagram", "url": "https://instagram.com/arcticmonkeys" }]
}

Every run also writes play_counts.csv to the key-value store — one row per track with artist_url, artist_name, album_url, album_name, track_url, track_name, play_count. In preview mode it is preview_urls.csv with a preview_url column. Download the dataset in JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or XML from the Dataset tab.

Use cases

📊 Music analytics & reporting — Track stream counts and monthly listeners over time for artists, labels, or catalogs.

🎯 A&R and scouting — Compare play counts across an artist's discography to spot breakout tracks and momentum.

📀 Playlist curation — Rank candidate tracks by real stream counts instead of the coarse popularity score.

💵 Royalty and catalog valuation — Estimate streaming revenue from exact play counts and release dates.

📰 Music journalism & research — Cite precise, current stream figures in articles and academic work.

🤖 AI & data pipelines — Feed play-count data into LLM agents through the Apify MCP server or your own database.

How it works

1. The Actor reads the Spotify entity type and ID from each URL.
2. It obtains an anonymous web access token from Spotify's public web player (no login or API key).
3. It queries Spotify's internal GraphQL endpoint — the same one open.spotify.com uses — for the artist, album, or track, including the playcount field.
4. Albums with many tracks are paginated automatically; artist discography is expanded when a follow option is enabled.
5. Each entity becomes one dataset record, and every track is appended to play_counts.csv.
6. Each record is billed as one pay-per-event result.

How much does it cost to scrape Spotify play counts?

Spotify Play Count Scraper uses pay-per-event pricing. You are charged once per record — one artist, album, or track (including each followed release). Track volume inside an album or artist does not change the price.

Plan	Price per record	Price per 1,000 records
Free	$0.0038	$3.80
Bronze	$0.0036	$3.60
Silver	$0.0034	$3.40
Gold	$0.0032	$3.20

Apify platform usage (compute and proxy) is billed separately but is minimal — each URL is a handful of small API calls. Scraping one album with 12 tracks or one artist costs a single record. Following an artist's full discography bills one record per release. See the Apify pricing page.

API usage examples

Run Spotify Play Count Scraper with the Apify API.

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

run_input = {
    "urls": [
        "https://open.spotify.com/artist/7Ln80lUS6He07XvHI8qqHH",
        "https://open.spotify.com/album/1XkGORuUX2QGOEIL4EbJKm",
    ],
    "followAlbums": False,
}

run = client.actor("parsebird/spotify-play-count-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["type"], item["name"], item.get("streamCount") or item.get("monthlyListeners"))

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });

const run = await client.actor('parsebird/spotify-play-count-scraper').call({
    urls: ['https://open.spotify.com/track/2x8evxqUlF0eRabbW2JBJd'],
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items[0].name, items[0].streamCount);

Connect finished datasets to Google Sheets, Slack, Zapier, Make, webhooks, or your own pipeline.

Is it legal to scrape Spotify play counts?

Spotify Play Count Scraper reads only publicly visible data — the same artist, album, and track information any visitor sees on open.spotify.com. It does not log in, use personal account cookies, download audio, or access private data. You should still review Spotify's Terms of Service and make sure your use case complies with applicable laws and platform policies. For background, read Apify's guide: Is web scraping legal?.

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FAQ

Does this return the real play count or just the popularity score? The real play count — the exact total number of streams Spotify shows next to a track. Spotify's official Web API only exposes a 1–100 popularity score.

Do I need a Spotify account or API key? No. The Actor uses Spotify's public web player data. No login, API key, or sp_dc cookie.

How current are the numbers? They are the values Spotify is showing at scrape time. Spotify refreshes play counts roughly once a day.

How do I get all of an artist's albums or singles? Provide the artist URL and enable Follow albums and/or Follow singles. Each release is scraped in full and added as its own record.

Can I get 30-second previews? Yes. Enable Scrape 30-second preview URLs to return each track's previewUrl instead of its stream count.

Can I schedule recurring runs to track growth? Yes. Use Apify schedules to run daily or weekly and build a play-count time series.

A run failed with a "persisted query" or token error — what now? Spotify occasionally changes its web player. The Actor auto-recovers by reloading query identifiers, but if it cannot, report it on the Issues tab and it will be fixed quickly.

Can I use this as a Spotify play count API? Yes. Call the Actor through the Apify API, use webhooks, or connect it to AI assistants with the Apify MCP server.