Spotify Podcast Episodes API. Episodes, page by page.
Full descriptions and exact release times. We handle the proxies, blocks and platform changes.
Spotify Podcast Episodes API at a glance
Returns the episodes of a public Spotify podcast, a page at a time in the show's own order, from its link, share link, URI or ID. Each has its title, full description, exact release time, length, cover, whether it is audio or video, explicit flag, whether only subscribers hear it in full, and a preview clip. Filter by date with since and until.
GET /v1/spotify/podcast_episodes
- 1 credit per page, $0.75–$1.97 per 1,000 pages
- 22 typed fields null when unknown
- 50 episodes per page, the show's own order: newest first, or from the first episode on a show meant to be heard in order
urlis all it needs, e.g.https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL
Send one request. Get up to 50 episodes back.
Copy the request in your language, or hand it to your agent. Sign up for an API key and your first 100 credits are free.
$ 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_episodes?${params}`, {
headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY ?? "" },
});
const body = await res.json();
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${body.error.code}: ${body.error.message}`);
const { data, page, meta } = body;
console.log(data, meta.credits_charged);import os
import requests
res = requests.get(
"https://socialtap.dev/v1/spotify/podcast_episodes",
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, page, meta = body["data"], body["page"], body["meta"]
print(data, meta["credits_charged"])require "json"
require "net/http"
uri = URI("https://socialtap.dev/v1/spotify/podcast_episodes")
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_episodes?' . $query);
curl_setopt_array($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_episodes?"+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"`
Page json.RawMessage `json:"page"`
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_episodes' \
--data-urlencode 'url=https://open.spotify.com/show/2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL' \
-H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"{
"data": [
{
"approximate_fields": [],
"author": {
"avatar_url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8a563ebb538d297875b10114b7",
"display_name": "Lex Fridman Podcast",
"id": null,
"is_verified": null,
"url": null,
"username": null
},
"coauthors": [],
"duration_ms": 13327488,
"hashtags": [],
"id": "0ndqMvnUJkNmQrhK98R09Y",
"is_nsfw": null,
"is_pinned": null,
"is_sponsored": null,
"language": null,
"media": [
{
"alt_text": null,
"duration_ms": null,
"expires_at": null,
"height": null,
"thumbnail_url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8a563ebb538d297875b10114b7",
"type": "audio",
"url": "https://p.scdn.co/mp3-preview/5a779c504466ba4bce6b571982043964ede1f5c5.mp3",
"width": null
}
],
"mentions": [],
"metrics": {
"comment_count": null,
"like_count": null,
"quote_count": null,
"repost_count": null,
"save_count": null,
"share_count": null,
"view_count": null
},
"platform": "spotify",
"platform_specific": {
"spotify": {
"added_at": null,
"added_by": null,
"album_id": null,
"album_title": null,
"album_track_count": null,
"album_type": null,
"album_url": null,
"bpm": null,
"camelot_key": null,
"canonical_track_id": null,
"copyrights": [],
"credits": [],
"disc_number": null,
"is_explicit": false,
"is_paywalled": false,
"is_playable": true,
"isrc": null,
"label": null,
"languages": [],
"music_video_count": null,
"musical_key": null,
"playability_reason": "playable",
"podcast_id": "2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL",
"popularity": null,
"release_date_precision": null,
"track_number": null
}
},
"platform_type": "episode",
"published_at": "2026-10-26T22:57:00Z",
"text": "Ankur Moitra, Steven Brunton and Alex Kontorovich are three mathematicians who can speak to this incredible moment in the history of mathematics, when AI solved some of its hardest problems: Navier-Stokes, the quasi-Riemann hypothesis, the unique games conjecture and hundreds of …",
"thumbnail_url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8a563ebb538d297875b10114b7",
"title": "#503 – AI Crisis in Math: Navier-Stokes, Riemann Hypothesis & Complexity Theory",
"type": "audio",
"unknown_fields": [],
"url": "https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ndqMvnUJkNmQrhK98R09Y"
},
{
"approximate_fields": [],
"author": {
"avatar_url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8a563ebb538d297875b10114b7",
"display_name": "Lex Fridman Podcast",
"id": null,
"is_verified": null,
"url": null,
"username": null
},
"coauthors": [],
"duration_ms": 13409643,
"hashtags": [],
"id": "082a1V6nazH9ZZqskV1vfz",
"is_nsfw": null,
"is_pinned": null,
"is_sponsored": null,
"language": null,
"media": [
{
"alt_text": null,
"duration_ms": null,
"expires_at": null,
"height": null,
"thumbnail_url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8ac0294c0d8ae28ab5e8aa4863",
"type": "audio",
"url": "https://p.scdn.co/mp3-preview/58e0916ff165341de3cc9bde8c6da49bc8190ec0.mp3",
"width": null
}
],
"mentions": [],
"metrics": {
"comment_count": null,
"like_count": null,
"quote_count": null,
"repost_count": null,
"save_count": null,
"share_count": null,
"view_count": null
},
"platform": "spotify",
"platform_specific": {
"spotify": {
"added_at": null,
"added_by": null,
"album_id": null,
"album_title": null,
"album_track_count": null,
"album_type": null,
"album_url": null,
"bpm": null,
"camelot_key": null,
"canonical_track_id": null,
"copyrights": [],
"credits": [],
"disc_number": null,
"is_explicit": false,
"is_paywalled": false,
"is_playable": true,
"isrc": null,
"label": null,
"languages": [],
"music_video_count": null,
"musical_key": null,
"playability_reason": "playable",
"podcast_id": "2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL",
"popularity": null,
"release_date_precision": null,
"track_number": null
}
},
"platform_type": "episode",
"published_at": "2026-09-17T00:42:00Z",
"text": "Andrew Scull is a historian of psychiatry.Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep502-sdSee below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc.Transcript:https://lexfridman.com/andrew-scull-transc…",
"thumbnail_url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8ac0294c0d8ae28ab5e8aa4863",
"title": "#502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung",
"type": "audio",
"unknown_fields": [],
"url": "https://open.spotify.com/episode/082a1V6nazH9ZZqskV1vfz"
},
{
"approximate_fields": [],
"author": {
"avatar_url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8a563ebb538d297875b10114b7",
"display_name": "Lex Fridman Podcast",
"id": null,
"is_verified": null,
"url": null,
"username": null
},
"coauthors": [],
"duration_ms": 19285140,
"hashtags": [],
"id": "45lhw2Adbrsw0xSCOgIeg3",
"is_nsfw": null,
"is_pinned": null,
"is_sponsored": null,
"language": null,
"media": [
{
"alt_text": null,
"duration_ms": null,
"expires_at": null,
"height": null,
"thumbnail_url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8a00490133143af11512aa2eb9",
"type": "audio",
"url": "https://p.scdn.co/mp3-preview/4b1be06d8d418d2648bd63d351f252d41120a3bf.mp3",
"width": null
}
],
"mentions": [],
"metrics": {
"comment_count": null,
"like_count": null,
"quote_count": null,
"repost_count": null,
"save_count": null,
"share_count": null,
"view_count": null
},
"platform": "spotify",
"platform_specific": {
"spotify": {
"added_at": null,
"added_by": null,
"album_id": null,
"album_title": null,
"album_track_count": null,
"album_type": null,
"album_url": null,
"bpm": null,
"camelot_key": null,
"canonical_track_id": null,
"copyrights": [],
"credits": [],
"disc_number": null,
"is_explicit": false,
"is_paywalled": false,
"is_playable": true,
"isrc": null,
"label": null,
"languages": [],
"music_video_count": null,
"musical_key": null,
"playability_reason": "playable",
"podcast_id": "2MAi0BvDc6GTFvKFPXnkCL",
"popularity": null,
"release_date_precision": null,
"track_number": null
}
},
"platform_type": "episode",
"published_at": "2026-08-26T21:47:00Z",
"text": "DHH is the creator of Ruby on Rails, Omarchy Linux, CTO of 37signals, and a racecar driver.Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep501-sdSee below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc.Tran…",
"thumbnail_url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8a00490133143af11512aa2eb9",
"title": "#501 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux",
"type": "audio",
"unknown_fields": [],
"url": "https://open.spotify.com/episode/45lhw2Adbrsw0xSCOgIeg3"
}
],
"page": {
"has_more": true,
"next_cursor": "c1.EXAMPLE_CURSOR",
"next_cursor_expires_at": "2026-10-26T12:00:00Z",
"end_reason": null
},
"meta": {
"request_id": "req_3f9c2a7d1e8b4c6a9f0e2d4b6a8c0e1f",
"platform": "spotify",
"source": "api",
"is_cached": false,
"credits_charged": 1,
"latency_ms": 301,
"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.podcastEpisodes.list({ 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_episodes?" + 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_episodes?" + 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_episodes")
.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/podcast_episodesLong arrays and strings are shortened here. Real responses are complete.Docs One schema on 21 platforms.
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.
Write one parser
Spotify, TikTok, Instagram and 18 more platforms answer in these fields, so the code that reads one reads them all.
platformstring- Platform ID (tiktok, youtube, …).
idstring- Platform-native post ID (string; Instagram shortcode, Reddit with its t3_ prefix).
urlstring- Canonical post URL.
typestring- Normalized content shape. New values may be added; treat unknown values as other.
platform_typestring- The platform's own product label, lowercase (reel, short, story, live, tweet, …).
titlestring- Headline (YouTube title, Reddit title); null on caption-only platforms.
textstring- Caption, description or body as plain text.
languagestring- BCP-47 language of text, when the platform states it.
Live data from 33 platforms.
What teams build with the Spotify Podcast Episodes API.
Monitor a podcast for new episodes
List a show's episodes in a directory
Collect episode descriptions for research
Compare how often shows publish
Good to know before you build.
- An episode is a post of platform_type episode with no plays, since Spotify shows none. author is its show, by name and cover only: author.id and author.username are null, and platform_specific.spotify.podcast_id is the show's ID, which the Spotify Podcast API takes.
- Episodes come in the show's order: newest first on most shows, and from the first episode on a serial show (show_type serial on the Spotify Podcast API), whose order isn't always by date.
- On a show listed newest first, since stops the walk once it is passed and until walks on to where the window starts, each page charged.
- A serial show is only filtered: after several pages in a row with nothing in the window, page.end_reason is max_pages and those empty pages are charged, so a window near the end of a long serial show may not be reached.
- Spotify hides some episodes from logged-out listeners without saying what they are. They are left out and counted in meta.warnings, so a page can hold fewer than its limit, or none, while the list goes on.
- media[].url is Spotify's preview, a short clip, and null when it has none: the full episode isn't returned. platform_specific.spotify.is_paywalled says only subscribers can hear it in full.
- platform_specific.spotify.is_playable is for the country we request from, which may not be yours.
- 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 first page comes from the show's embed page with one episode, the first playable in the show's order and not always the newest. page.end_reason is then platform_limit, the description and paywall flag are null, and a video-only episode reads as audio.
1 credit per page. Failed requests are free.
Buy credits once and spend them on any endpoint, on any platform.
| Source | Price per successful page | Per 1,000 pages |
|---|---|---|
Platform API api | 1 credit | $0.75–$1.97 |
Public page page | 1 credit | $0.75–$1.97 |
- Cache hits are free.
- Credits from packs and top-ups never expire.
- A monthly plan's credits are spent first, and what is left of them ends at each renewal.
- Prices exclude tax: sales tax is added at checkout where it applies.
- Outside the US, plans and packs are sold to businesses: checkout asks for your VAT, GST or other business tax ID.
Questions about the Spotify Podcast Episodes API.
More in the API reference.
Can I get only the episodes since a date?
Yes. Send since: on a show listed newest first the walk stops there, so older pages aren't fetched or charged.
How much does the Spotify Podcast Episodes API cost?
A page of up to 50 episodes costs 1 credit. Every successful page is charged, empty pages included. SocialTap credits cost $0.75–$1.97 per 1,000, depending on the plan or pack.
How do I get the next page?
Repeat the same request with cursor set to page.next_cursor from the previous response, keeping the other parameters. When page.has_more is false there are no more pages. Cursors expire after 24 hours.
Try it on a link you already have.
Paste it in the playground, or copy the request into your code.
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- No credit card
- Failed requests are free
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