Spotify track API
Title, artists, album, duration, lifetime play count and the 30 second preview URL.
GET /v1/spotify/track
GET /v1/spotify/track
Title, artists, album, duration, lifetime play count and the 30 second preview URL.
- Cost: 1 credit
- Cache: Results are kept up to 30 days; send
max_age_daysto reuse them for free. - Timeout: A request still running after about 25 seconds answers
202with a job to poll (Batch and jobs).
Parameters#
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
url | URL | one of | Spotify track URL. Accepted hosts: open.spotify.com, spotify.com, spotify.link. |
id | string | one of | Spotify track id. |
Send at least one of url, id. If you send several, the first listed is used and the rest are ignored.
Every request also accepts:
trim:truefor a smaller response withoutnullfields andextra.raw:trueto also get the platform's original object asraw.max_age_days: accept a cached result up to this many days old, for 0 credits (Caching).
Example request#
Set your key in the environment first (see Authentication).
1curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/spotify/track" \2 -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \3 --data-urlencode "id=4cOdK2wGLETKBW3PvgPWqT"1import os2import requests34params = {5 "id": "4cOdK2wGLETKBW3PvgPWqT",6}7res = requests.get(8 "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/spotify/track",9 headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},10 params=params,11)12body = res.json()1314if body["ok"]:15 print(body["data"])16else:17 print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])1const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/spotify/track");2url.search = new URLSearchParams({3 "id": "4cOdK2wGLETKBW3PvgPWqT"4}).toString();5const res = await fetch(url, {6 headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },7});8const body = await res.json();910if (body.ok) {11 console.log(body.data);12} else {13 console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);14}1{2 "nodes": [3 {4 "name": "SocialScrape Spotify track",5 "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",6 "typeVersion": 4.2,7 "position": [8 0,9 010 ],11 "parameters": {12 "method": "GET",13 "url": "https://api.socialscrape.dev/v1/spotify/track",14 "sendQuery": true,15 "queryParameters": {16 "parameters": [17 {18 "name": "id",19 "value": "4cOdK2wGLETKBW3PvgPWqT"20 }21 ]22 },23 "sendHeaders": true,24 "headerParameters": {25 "parameters": [26 {27 "name": "x-api-key",28 "value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"29 }30 ]31 }32 }33 }34 ],35 "connections": {}36}Example response#
This is a sample from a recorded response. Status 200.
200 OKSample response
1{2 "ok": true,3 "credits_charged": 1,4 "credits_remaining": 4999,5 "cached": false,6 "cached_at": null,7 "request_id": "req_11f4ec0529df2dacd8ad851a",8 "data": {9 "object": "song",10 "platform": "spotify",11 "id": "4cOdK2wGLETKBW3PvgPWqT",12 "url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/4cOdK2wGLETKBW3PvgPWqT",13 "title": "Never Gonna Give You Up",14 "artists": [15 "Rick Astley"16 ],17 "album": "Whenever You Need Somebody",18 "duration_seconds": 213.573,19 "cover_url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273baf89eb11ec7c657805d2da0",20 "preview_url": "https://p.scdn.co/mp3-preview/40a780b231e5ed130483bec7917b6c9a4f8a4708",21 "released_at": "1987-11-12",22 "isrc": null,23 "explicit": false,24 "is_original": null,25 "stats": {26 "plays": 1197661434,27 "uses": null,28 "likes": null29 },30 "extra": {31 "album_id": "5Z9iiGl2FcIfa3BMiv6OIw",32 "album_url": "https://open.spotify.com/album/5Z9iiGl2FcIfa3BMiv6OIw",33 "artist_ids": [34 "0gxyHStUsqpMadRV0Di1Qt"35 ],36 "media_type": "AUDIO",37 "playable": true,38 "track_number": 1,39 "uri": "spotify:track:4cOdK2wGLETKBW3PvgPWqT",40 "video_count": 141 }42 },43 "cursor": null,44 "has_more": null45}Response#
A Song object in data.
See Data models for every field. The envelope around data is described in Responses.
Errors#
Failures are free: credits_charged is 0. Branch on error.code, never on the message.
| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
invalid_params | 400 | no | A parameter is missing, unknown or has the wrong type. |
unsupported_url | 400 | no | The URL is not one this endpoint accepts (wrong platform or form). |
not_found | 404 | no | The platform says this profile, post or item does not exist. |
Every request can also fail with the account and platform errors listed on the Errors page.
Example error:
1{2 "ok": false,3 "error": {4 "code": "not_found",5 "message": "The platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.",6 "retryable": false7 },8 "credits_charged": 0,9 "request_id": "req_75cf7925af1a824b4491e895"10}Related endpoints#
- Spotify artist (
GET /v1/spotify/artist) - Spotify album (
GET /v1/spotify/album) - Spotify podcast (
GET /v1/spotify/podcast) - Spotify playlist (
GET /v1/spotify/playlist) - Spotify podcast episodes (
GET /v1/spotify/podcast/episodes) - Spotify search (
GET /v1/spotify/search)