Spotify Scraper: Play Counts, Monthly Listeners & Stats

Spotify data the official API does not give you: play counts for every track, and each artist's monthly listeners, followers, world rank and top cities. Artists, albums, tracks and playlists, by link or by name, with full discographies.

No login, no API key, no proxy. $0.004 per artist, $0.0015 per album, track or playlist row.

What you get

Artist (rowType: "artist")

• monthlyListeners, followers, worldRank
• topCities: city, country, listeners
• topTracks: the 10 most played, each with playcount
• biography, externalLinks (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia...), avatarUrl, headerImageUrl
• releaseCounts (albums, singles, compilations), latestRelease, relatedArtists

Album (rowType: "album")

• name, albumType, releaseDate, label, copyright, artists, coverUrl
• tracks: every track with playcount, duration, explicit flag, artists
• totalPlaycount: the album's streams, summed

Track (rowType: "track"): playcount, duration, explicit, artists, album and release date

Playlist (rowType: "playlist"): name, description, owner, followers, totalTracks, then one playlist_track row per song with position, addedAt and playcount

Example input

An artist and a playlist by link:

{
  "urls": [
    "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3wcj11K77LjEY1PkEazffa",
    "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M"
  ]
}

Artists by name, with every release and its track play counts:

{
  "searchTerms": ["Tems", "Tyla", "Ayra Starr"],
  "includeDiscography": true
}

Find playlists about a genre, with their tracks:

{
  "searchTerms": ["afrobeats"],
  "searchType": "playlists",
  "maxSearchResults": 10,
  "maxTracksPerPlaylist": 100
}

Example output

{
  "rowType": "artist",
  "id": "3wcj11K77LjEY1PkEazffa",
  "name": "Burna Boy",
  "url": "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3wcj11K77LjEY1PkEazffa",
  "monthlyListeners": 45103619,
  "followers": 18073764,
  "worldRank": 94,
  "topCities": [{ "city": "Lagos", "country": "NG", "region": "LA", "listeners": 1234567 }],
  "topTracks": [{ "name": "Last Last", "playcount": 499449618, "durationMs": 172000 }],
  "releaseCounts": { "albums": 9, "singles": 81, "compilations": 2 },
  "externalLinks": { "instagram": "https://instagram.com/burnaboygram" }
}

{
  "rowType": "album",
  "name": "UNDERDOGS",
  "releaseDate": "2025-08-29",
  "label": "Mr. 305 Records",
  "totalTracks": 11,
  "totalPlaycount": 68503179,
  "tracks": [{ "trackNumber": 1, "name": "Tamo Bien", "playcount": 50418378 }]
}

Uses

• Labels, managers and A&R: track streams and listener growth across a roster, and spot rising artists by listeners and top cities
• Playlist pitching: see who owns a playlist, how many follow it, and what plays on it
• Music marketing and tour planning: top cities show where the listeners are
• Royalty and catalog valuation: play counts for a whole discography in one run
• Charts and dashboards: schedule daily and chart play-count growth

Pricing

• $0.004 per artist profile
• $0.0015 per album (all its tracks' play counts in one row), track, playlist, or track on a playlist
• No start fee. Links Spotify does not find are returned with the error and not charged.

Notes

• Play counts are Spotify's own all-time totals, as shown in the app. Monthly listeners are for the last 28 days.
• Spotify shows play counts above 1,000 only. Smaller numbers come back as null.
• Private playlists cannot be read.