# Changelog of Spotify Play Count Scraper & API (`parsebird/spotify-play-count-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parsebird/spotify-play-count-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/parsebird/spotify-play-count-scraper.md

## Changelog

### v1.0 — 2026-08-26

- Initial release
- Extract exact Spotify play counts (stream counts) for artist, album, and track URLs
- Artist data: name, verified status, followers, monthly listeners, world rank, top 5 cities, top tracks with play counts, albums, singles, popular releases, biography, external links, cover art
- Album data: name, type, release date, artists, label, copyright, every track with play count, cover art, more albums by the artist
- Track data: name, stream count, duration, content rating, track number, full parent-album tracklist, artists
- `followAlbums`, `followSingles`, `followPopularReleases` options to expand an artist URL into its releases
- `scrapePreviewUrls` option to return 30-second audio preview URLs instead of stream counts
- Flat `play_counts.csv` (or `preview_urls.csv`) written to the key-value store, one row per track
- Self-healing GraphQL query identifiers loaded from the live Spotify web player