# Spotify Play Count Scraper (`piotrv1001/spotify-play-count-scraper`) Actor

The Spotify Play Count Scraper extracts exact per-track play counts, artist monthly listeners, followers, world rank and top cities from track, artist, album, playlist URLs and keyword searches — ideal for catalogue monitoring, A\&R research and playlist analytics.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/piotrv1001/spotify-play-count-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [FalconScrape](https://apify.com/piotrv1001) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 tracks

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

### 🚀 Spotify Play Count Scraper

Get the exact numbers Spotify shows on the web player but never exposes in its public API. The **Spotify Play Count Scraper** returns per-track play counts, artist monthly listeners, followers and world rank, plus full album, playlist and search results, as clean structured rows ready for catalogue monitoring, A\&R research and playlist analysis.

### ✨ Features

- 🎵 **Exact play counts**: Every track row carries the current play count, from any track, album or playlist URL.
- 🎤 **Artist analytics**: Monthly listeners, followers, world rank, top listener cities, biography, external links and the top 10 tracks with their play counts.
- 💿 **Full discography**: One switch turns an artist URL into every track from every album and single, each with its play count.
- 🔍 **Keyword search**: Search Spotify tracks by any term and get each match with its play count.
- ⚡ **Fast**: Hundreds of tracks per minute, no login required.

### 🛠️ How It Works

1. **Paste Spotify URLs** – Track, artist, album or playlist links from the Spotify app or website, or `spotify:` URIs.
2. **Optionally add search terms** – Each keyword returns matching tracks with play counts.
3. **Set the scope** – Choose **Max items** and, for artists, whether to include the **full discography**.
4. **Run the scraper** – Get one row per track and one row per artist.

### 📊 Sample Output Data

```json
[
    {
        "type": "artist",
        "id": "1dfeR4HaWDbWqFHLkxsg1d",
        "url": "https://open.spotify.com/artist/1dfeR4HaWDbWqFHLkxsg1d",
        "name": "Queen",
        "monthlyListeners": 48478819,
        "followers": 58411331,
        "worldRank": 78,
        "topCities": [
            { "city": "Mexico City", "country": "MX", "region": "CMX", "listeners": 896254 },
            { "city": "São Paulo", "country": "BR", "region": "SP", "listeners": 765668 }
        ],
        "topTracks": [
            { "id": "2JiDi0qAXsPwhPqA2qaKGt", "name": "Bohemian Rhapsody", "playCount": 3259992868, "url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/2JiDi0qAXsPwhPqA2qaKGt" }
        ],
        "biography": "Queen epitomize all the glittering excess of '70s arena rock…",
        "imageUrl": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6761610000e5eb73e4d22612ac8d944b5789b4",
        "externalLinks": [{ "name": "FACEBOOK", "url": "https://facebook.com/Queen" }],
        "source": "https://open.spotify.com/artist/1dfeR4HaWDbWqFHLkxsg1d",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-09-03T15:58:40.112Z"
    },
    {
        "type": "track",
        "id": "1tDWVeCR9oWGX8d5J9rswk",
        "uri": "spotify:track:1tDWVeCR9oWGX8d5J9rswk",
        "url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/1tDWVeCR9oWGX8d5J9rswk",
        "name": "Eclipse",
        "playCount": 121445934,
        "durationMs": 126720,
        "explicit": false,
        "trackNumber": 10,
        "discNumber": 1,
        "artists": [{ "id": "0k17h0D3J5VfsdmQ1iZtE9", "name": "Pink Floyd", "url": "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0k17h0D3J5VfsdmQ1iZtE9" }],
        "album": {
            "id": "4LH4d3cOWNNsVw41Gqt2kv",
            "name": "The Dark Side of the Moon",
            "url": "https://open.spotify.com/album/4LH4d3cOWNNsVw41Gqt2kv",
            "releaseDate": "1973-03-01T00:00:00Z",
            "coverUrl": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27328933b808bfb4cbbd0385400"
        },
        "source": "https://open.spotify.com/album/4LH4d3cOWNNsVw41Gqt2kv",
        "scrapedAt": "2026-09-03T15:58:41.503Z"
    }
]
```

### 💰 Pricing

You pay **$0.004 per track row** ($4 per 1,000) and **$0.005 per artist row**, plus platform usage. Tracking 2,000 tracks every day is about $240 per month.

Watch streams climb, compare catalogues and size up artists with **Spotify Play Count Scraper** today! 🚀

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Track, artist, album or playlist URLs (or spotify: URIs). Tracks return one row with the play count; albums and playlists return one row per track; artists return an artist row with monthly listeners plus their top tracks.

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Keywords to search Spotify tracks for. Each matching track is returned with its play count.

## `fullDiscography` (type: `boolean`):

For artist URLs, also return every track from every album and single with its play count, not just the top 10 tracks.

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

Maximum number of rows to save in total.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings. The default works for most runs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://open.spotify.com/artist/1dfeR4HaWDbWqFHLkxsg1d",
    "https://open.spotify.com/album/4LH4d3cOWNNsVw41Gqt2kv"
  ],
  "fullDiscography": false,
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# 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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        "https://open.spotify.com/artist/1dfeR4HaWDbWqFHLkxsg1d",
        "https://open.spotify.com/album/4LH4d3cOWNNsVw41Gqt2kv"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("piotrv1001/spotify-play-count-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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        "https://open.spotify.com/artist/1dfeR4HaWDbWqFHLkxsg1d",
        "https://open.spotify.com/album/4LH4d3cOWNNsVw41Gqt2kv",
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("piotrv1001/spotify-play-count-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 '{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://open.spotify.com/artist/1dfeR4HaWDbWqFHLkxsg1d",
    "https://open.spotify.com/album/4LH4d3cOWNNsVw41Gqt2kv"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}' |
apify call piotrv1001/spotify-play-count-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,piotrv1001/spotify-play-count-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/Hm1q5Wy8yituBesB8/builds/tTFO0j5qmnlnf0ZMU/openapi.json