Spotify Podcast API. Send a podcast link or ID.
Exact rating, episode count and topics. We handle the proxies, blocks and platform changes.
Spotify Podcast API at a glance
Returns a public Spotify podcast from its link, share link, URI or ID, with its exact average rating, number of ratings and episode count. It also has the name, description, publisher, cover, topics, whether it is audio or video, whether it is episodic or serial, its explicit mark and when the latest episode came out.
GET /v1/spotify/podcast
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- 17 typed fields null when unknown
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$ npm install socialtapurl = https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCLconst params = new URLSearchParams({
url: "https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://socialtap.dev/v1/spotify/podcast?${params}`, {
headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY ?? "" },
});
const body = await res.json();
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${body.error.code}: ${body.error.message}`);
const { data, meta } = body;
console.log(data, meta.credits_charged);import os
import requests
res = requests.get(
"https://socialtap.dev/v1/spotify/podcast",
params={"url": "https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL"},
headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"]},
)
body = res.json()
if not res.ok:
raise RuntimeError(f"{body['error']['code']}: {body['error']['message']}")
data, meta = body["data"], body["meta"]
print(data, meta["credits_charged"])require "json"
require "net/http"
uri = URI("https://socialtap.dev/v1/spotify/podcast")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form('url' => 'https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL')
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
req["x-api-key"] = ENV.fetch("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, use_ssl: uri.scheme == "https") { |http| http.request(req) }
body = JSON.parse(res.body)
raise "#{body["error"]["code"]}: #{body["error"]["message"]}" unless res.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
pp body["data"]
puts body["meta"]["credits_charged"]<?php
$query = http_build_query([
'url' => 'https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL',
]);
$ch = curl_init('https://socialtap.dev/v1/spotify/podcast?' . $query);
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['x-api-key: ' . getenv('SOCIALTAP_API_KEY')],
]);
$body = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
if (curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE) >= 400) {
throw new RuntimeException($body['error']['code'] . ': ' . $body['error']['message']);
}
print_r($body['data']);
echo $body['meta']['credits_charged'], PHP_EOL;package main
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"log"
"net/http"
"net/url"
"os"
)
func main() {
q := url.Values{}
q.Set("url", "https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL")
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://socialtap.dev/v1/spotify/podcast?"+q.Encode(), nil)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
req.Header.Set("x-api-key", os.Getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
defer res.Body.Close()
var body struct {
Data json.RawMessage `json:"data"`
Meta map[string]any `json:"meta"`
Error *struct {
Code string `json:"code"`
Message string `json:"message"`
} `json:"error"`
}
if err := json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&body); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
if body.Error != nil {
log.Fatalf("%s: %s", body.Error.Code, body.Error.Message)
}
fmt.Println(string(body.Data), body.Meta["credits_charged"])
}curl -G 'https://socialtap.dev/v1/spotify/podcast' \
--data-urlencode 'url=https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL' \
-H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"{
"data": {
"approximate_fields": [],
"categories": [
"Technology"
],
"cover_url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8a563ebb538d297875b10114b7",
"description": "Conversations that explore technology, history, philosophy, physics, mathematics, biology, chemistry, engineering, AI, robotics, programming, music, film, art, sports, psychology, neuroscience, geopolitics, business, economics, religion, astronomy, and the human condition with pe…",
"id": "2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL",
"is_explicit": null,
"latest_episode_at": "2026-10-26T22:57:00Z",
"media_type": "mixed",
"metrics": {
"episode_count": 504,
"rating_count": 83249
},
"platform": "spotify",
"platform_specific": {},
"publisher": null,
"publisher_name": "Lex Fridman",
"rating": 4.749810808538215,
"show_type": "episodic",
"title": "Lex Fridman Podcast",
"unknown_fields": [],
"url": "https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL"
},
"meta": {
"request_id": "req_3f9c2a7d1e8b4c6a9f0e2d4b6a8c0e1f",
"platform": "spotify",
"source": "api",
"is_cached": false,
"credits_charged": 1,
"latency_ms": 664,
"fetched_at": "2026-10-25T12:00:00Z",
"input": {
"kind": "podcast",
"id": "2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL",
"url": "https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL"
},
"credits_remaining": 9999,
"client_request_id": null,
"warnings": []
}
}import { SocialTap } from "socialtap";
const client = new SocialTap(); // apiKey defaults to process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY
const res = await client.spotify.podcast.get({ url: "https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL" });
console.log(res.data);
console.log(res.credits.charged, res.meta.request_id);import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String query = "url=" + encode("https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL");
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
.uri(URI.create("https://socialtap.dev/v1/spotify/podcast?" + query))
.header("x-api-key", System.getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
.GET()
.build();
HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
// An error is {"error": {"code", "message", ...}}; success is {data, meta}, meta.credits_charged its price.
if (response.statusCode() >= 400) throw new RuntimeException(response.body());
System.out.println(response.body());
}
static String encode(String value) {
return URLEncoder.encode(value, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
}
}using System.Text.Json;
using var http = new HttpClient();
http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"));
var query = string.Join("&",
"url=" + Uri.EscapeDataString("https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL"));
var res = await http.GetAsync("https://socialtap.dev/v1/spotify/podcast?" + query);
using var body = JsonDocument.Parse(await res.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
if (!res.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
var error = body.RootElement.GetProperty("error");
throw new Exception($"{error.GetProperty("code")}: {error.GetProperty("message")}");
}
Console.WriteLine(body.RootElement.GetProperty("data"));
Console.WriteLine(body.RootElement.GetProperty("meta").GetProperty("credits_charged"));// Cargo.toml: reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["blocking", "json"] }, serde_json = "1"
use std::env;
fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
let res = reqwest::blocking::Client::new()
.get("https://socialtap.dev/v1/spotify/podcast")
.query(&[("url", "https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL")])
.header("x-api-key", env::var("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")?)
.send()?;
let ok = res.status().is_success();
let body: serde_json::Value = res.json()?;
if !ok {
return Err(format!("{}: {}", body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"]).into());
}
println!("{} {}", body["data"], body["meta"]["credits_charged"]);
Ok(())
}200 OK · GET https://socialtap.dev/v1/spotify/podcastLong arrays and strings are shortened here. Real responses are complete.Docs What you send and what comes back.
The response reference lists every field, its type and when it is null. See the full schema.
Null means unknown
A field Spotify doesn't show is null, never zero or an empty string, so a real zero always means zero.
What it accepts
The podcast: its link (open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL, also under /intl-de/ and /embed/, with any share parameters), a share link (spotify.link/…), its URI (spotify:show:2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL) or its 22-character ID.
What comes back
Podcasts with their publisher, description, cover, rating, categories, episode count and when the latest episode came out.
platformstring- Platform ID (spotify, youtube, …).
idstring- Platform-native show ID (string), the one in its page's URL.
urlstring- Canonical show page URL.
titlestring- The show's name as the platform lists it.
descriptionstring- About the show, as plain text; null when it has none or the platform shows none.
publisher_namestring- Who publishes the show, as the platform names them; null when it does not.
publisherobject- The platform account of the publisher; null when the platform names them without an account (always on Spotify).
cover_urlstring- Cover art URL at the largest size the platform serves; null when it has none. Platform CDN URLs can expire within hours.
Live data from 33 platforms.
What teams build with the Spotify Podcast API.
Track a show's rating over time
Check whether a show still publishes
Enrich a podcast directory from links
Filter shows by topic or format
Good to know before you build.
- is_explicit is true on a show Spotify marks explicit and null on any other, because Spotify gives no verdict on a show it doesn't mark.
- rating is null and metrics.rating_count 0 on a show nobody has rated. The average is exact, not rounded to one decimal.
- latest_episode_at is the newest episode a logged-out listener sees. Spotify can list newer ones without their details, metrics.episode_count counts those too, and latest_episode_at is null when a serial show's last episode is one of them.
- An audiobook link has the same form but isn't a podcast: it returns not_found, or private_or_unavailable when Spotify hides it from logged-out listeners in the country we request from.
- When Spotify's main API fails, the embed page answers with the name and cover only: every other field is null and categories is listed in unknown_fields.
1 credit per request. Failed requests are free.
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| Source | Price per successful request | Per 1,000 requests |
|---|---|---|
Platform API api | 1 credit | $0.75–$1.97 |
Public page page | 1 credit | $0.75–$1.97 |
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Questions about the Spotify Podcast API.
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