# Spotify Scraper: Play Counts, Monthly Listeners & Stats (`scrapemint/spotify-scraper`) Actor

Spotify play counts for every track, plus artist monthly listeners, followers, world rank, top cities, bio and socials. Artists, albums, tracks and playlists by URL or search, full discographies included. No login, no API key. $0.0015 per item, $0.004 per artist.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapemint/spotify-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ken M](https://apify.com/scrapemint) (community)
- **Categories:** Social media, Marketing, For creators
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $4.00 / 1,000 artist profiles

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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## 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:

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

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

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

Find playlists about a genre, with their tracks:

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

### Example output

```json
{
  "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" }
}
```

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

Artist, album, track or playlist links (open.spotify.com/... or spotify:artist:...). Mix freely.

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

Names to look up, e.g. Tems, Burna Boy. Each term returns the top match(es) of the type below.

## `searchType` (type: `string`):

What a search term finds.

## `maxSearchResults` (type: `integer`):

1 takes the top match only.

## `includeDiscography` (type: `boolean`):

For each artist, also return every album, single and compilation with each track's play count (one album row per release).

## `maxReleasesPerArtist` (type: `integer`):

Newest first.

## `playlistTracks` (type: `boolean`):

Return each track on a playlist as its own row, with position, date added and play count.

## `maxTracksPerPlaylist` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many tracks on each playlist.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3wcj11K77LjEY1PkEazffa",
    "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M"
  ],
  "searchTerms": [],
  "searchType": "artists",
  "maxSearchResults": 1,
  "includeDiscography": false,
  "maxReleasesPerArtist": 50,
  "playlistTracks": true,
  "maxTracksPerPlaylist": 500
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One row per artist, album, track, playlist or playlist track (rowType tells which).

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Row counts by type and anything that failed.

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

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapemint/spotify-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 = { "urls": [
        "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3wcj11K77LjEY1PkEazffa",
        "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapemint/spotify-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 '{
  "urls": [
    "https://open.spotify.com/artist/3wcj11K77LjEY1PkEazffa",
    "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M"
  ]
}' |
apify call scrapemint/spotify-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapemint/spotify-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/78p6YsF1EJiIqGbMI/builds/5r7dxi01463x8C19n/openapi.json