# Spotify Playlist API Spotify Returns a public Spotify playlist from its link, share link, URI or ID, with its exact follower count, owner, item count and when it was last changed. It also has the title, description, cover, creation date, whether it is collaborative, and whether it is Spotify's own and made by its algorithm. The Spotify Playlist Tracks API returns its tracks. GET `/v1/spotify/playlist` ## Example cURL: ```shell curl -G 'https://socialtap.dev/v1/spotify/playlist' \ --data-urlencode 'url=https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M' \ -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY" ``` TypeScript SDK: ```typescript import { SocialTap } from "socialtap"; const client = new SocialTap(); // apiKey defaults to process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY const res = await client.spotify.playlist.get({ url: "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M" }); console.log(res.data); console.log(res.credits.charged, res.meta.request_id); ``` Node.js (fetch): ```javascript const params = new URLSearchParams({ url: "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M", }); const res = await fetch(`https://socialtap.dev/v1/spotify/playlist?${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); ``` Python (requests): ```python import os import requests res = requests.get( "https://socialtap.dev/v1/spotify/playlist", params={"url": "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M"}, 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"]) ``` Go (net/http): ```go package main import ( "encoding/json" "fmt" "log" "net/http" "net/url" "os" ) func main() { q := url.Values{} q.Set("url", "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M") req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://socialtap.dev/v1/spotify/playlist?"+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"]) } ``` 200 OK: ```json { "data": { "approximate_fields": [], "description": "The hottest 50. Cover: Tame Impala", "id": "37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M", "is_collaborative": false, "metrics": { "post_count": 50 }, "owner": { "avatar_url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6775700000ee8555c25988a6ac314394d3fbf5", "display_name": "Spotify", "id": null, "is_verified": null, "url": "https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify", "username": "spotify" }, "platform": "spotify", "platform_specific": { "spotify": { "created_at": null, "follower_count": 33626571, "is_algorithmic": false, "is_collaborative": false, "is_deleted_by_owner": false, "is_user_created": false, "updated_at": "2026-10-30T04:01:22Z" } }, "platform_type": "playlist", "thumbnail_url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67706f00000002960019ea66cba66a44fdd4c2", "title": "Today’s Top Hits", "type": "playlist", "unknown_fields": [], "url": "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M" }, "meta": { "request_id": "req_3f9c2a7d1e8b4c6a9f0e2d4b6a8c0e1f", "platform": "spotify", "source": "api", "is_cached": false, "credits_charged": 1, "latency_ms": 317, "fetched_at": "2026-10-25T12:00:00Z", "input": { "kind": "playlist", "id": "37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M", "url": "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M" }, "credits_remaining": 9999, "client_request_id": null, "warnings": [] } } ``` > [!NOTE] > > **Good to know** > > - title is null on a playlist whose title is empty or only spaces. It is still a real playlist, with its ID, link and owner. > - metrics.post_count counts every item on the playlist, as Spotify does, tracks or not. > - platform_type is playlist, or Spotify's own name for it when it has one: chart, discover-weekly, daily-mix, artistsets. > - platform_specific.spotify.created_at is null on Spotify's own playlists, which don't state it, and is_algorithmic is null where Spotify says neither. > - A playlist its owner deleted still answers, with is_deleted_by_owner true, because Spotify keeps serving it. > - When Spotify's main API fails, the answer comes from its playlist API without the follower count, the owner's name or avatar, or a mosaic cover: those are null. ## Authorizations `x-api-key`stringheaderrequired Your API key. [Authentication](https://socialtap.dev/docs/authentication/index.md) ## Query parameters | Name | Type | Description | Example | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `url` required | `string`
max 2,048 chars | The playlist: its link (open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M, also under /intl-de/ and /embed/, the old /user/\/playlist/… form, with any share parameters), a share link (spotify.link/…), its URI (spotify:playlist:37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M, or the old spotify:user:\:playlist:…) or its 22-character ID. | `https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M` | `url` takes Spotify playlist links; another kind of link, or another platform's, fails free with [`invalid_input`](https://socialtap.dev/docs/errors/index.md#invalid_input). Unknown parameters are rejected with a suggestion, never ignored ([Requests](https://socialtap.dev/docs/requests/index.md)). **Parameters every endpoint accepts** | Name | Type | Description | Example | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `max_age` optional | `integer`
min 0 | Accept a cached response up to this many seconds old. Cache hits cost 0 credits. Omit to always fetch fresh. The Cache-Control: max-age=N request header is equivalent; max_age wins when both are sent. | — | | `fields` optional | `string` | Return only these fields of each item: comma-separated paths in the schema's notation (id,text,metrics.view_count,segments\[\].text; a parent path keeps the whole object). Unknown paths are rejected. Applied after the cache, so it changes neither the price nor cache hits; page and meta are always returned whole. | — | ## Response ### 200 `{data, meta}`. `data` is a [playlist](https://socialtap.dev/resources/playlist/index.md) object; `meta` describes the request ([meta](https://socialtap.dev/docs/reference/index.md#meta)). Fields only Spotify has are under `platform_specific.spotify`. | Field | Type | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | `data.platform` | `string` | Platform ID (tiktok, youtube, facebook, …). | | `data.id` | `string` | Platform-native playlist ID (string): TikTok's playlist (mix) or collection ID, YouTube's list ID (PL…), Facebook's video list ID. | | `data.url` | `string` (uri) | Canonical playlist URL. | | `data.type` | `string` | playlist: a list its owner curates and orders (TikTok playlists, YouTube playlists, Facebook playlists and series); collection: posts an account saved from any creator into a named public folder (TikTok collections). New values may be added; treat unknown values as playlist.
One of `playlist`, `collection` | | `data.platform_type` | `string` or `null` | The platform's own label, lowercase (mix, collection, playlist, series, podcast, …). | | `data.title` | `string` or `null` | Name its owner gave it. | | `data.description` | `string` or `null` | Description as plain text; null when it has none or the platform shows none (TikTok). | | `data.owner` | `object` | The account that curates it (for a collection, the account that saved the posts, not their authors). Where a platform's curators are not accounts (Apple Music), what it states of them: a name, perhaps a page and a picture, with id and username null, and every field null when it names no one. | | `data.owner.id` | `string` or `null` | Platform-native account ID; null when only the handle is known. | | `data.owner.username` | `string` or `null` | Handle without the @; null when the account has none. | | `data.owner.display_name` | `string` or `null` | Display name shown on the profile. | | `data.owner.url` | `string` (uri) or `null` | Canonical profile URL. | | `data.owner.avatar_url` | `string` (uri) or `null` | Profile picture URL. Platform CDN URLs can expire within hours. | | `data.owner.is_verified` | `boolean` or `null` | Platform verification badge; null where the platform has no badge. | | `data.thumbnail_url` | `string` (uri) or `null` | Cover image URL (the owner's chosen cover, else the platform's pick, often the first post's). Platform CDN URLs can expire within hours. | | `data.is_collaborative` | `boolean` or `null` | Whether people its owner invites can add to it as well (a collaborative playlist, a group board); null where the platform doesn't say. | | `data.metrics` | `object` | Counts at fetch time; null = hidden or not exposed, 0 = zero. | | `data.metrics.post_count` | `integer` or `null` | Posts in it as the platform counts them (it may count posts that are no longer public, so a walk of its posts can return fewer). | | `data.platform_specific` | `object` | Fields only this platform has, under its ID (platform_specific.\); each null when unknown. | | `data.platform_specific.spotify` | `object` or `null` | A Spotify playlist's own fields. | | `data.platform_specific.spotify.follower_count` | `integer` or `null` | Listeners who follow the playlist, exact. | | `data.platform_specific.spotify.is_collaborative` | `boolean` or `null` | Whether people its owner invites can add to it. | | `data.platform_specific.spotify.is_algorithmic` | `boolean` or `null` | Whether Spotify marks it as assembled by its algorithm rather than by its editors; null where Spotify says neither, as on a listener's playlist or a chart. | | `data.platform_specific.spotify.is_user_created` | `boolean` or `null` | True for a listener's playlist, false for one of Spotify's own. | | `data.platform_specific.spotify.is_deleted_by_owner` | `boolean` or `null` | Whether its owner deleted it: Spotify goes on serving such a playlist to anyone with its link. | | `data.platform_specific.spotify.created_at` | `string` (date-time) or `null` | When it was created, RFC 3339 UTC; null on Spotify's own playlists, which don't state it. | | `data.platform_specific.spotify.updated_at` | `string` (date-time) or `null` | When it last changed, RFC 3339 UTC. | | `data.approximate_fields` | `string[]` | JSON paths of values rounded by the platform, date-only or parsed from display text. \[\] when all exact. | | `data.unknown_fields` | `string[]` | JSON paths of lists whose \[\] means unknown rather than none (a source that cannot see them); null already means unknown for every other field. \[\] when every list is known. | not_found and private_or_unavailable are item-level: the request was fine, the item can't be returned. ### 400 400 Bad Request: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing. | Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `invalid_input` | 400 | No | A parameter is missing or malformed, or the link is not one this endpoint takes. | Fix the parameter named in param as the message says. For a link of the wrong kind, call an endpoint listed in details.endpoints, when there is one. | ### 401 401 Unauthorized: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing. | Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `unauthorized` | 401 | No | The x-api-key header is missing, or its key is unknown or revoked. On the dashboard's routes: the session cookie is missing or expired. | Send a valid API key in the x-api-key header. No key yet? A person gets one at details.signup_url; an AI agent follows details.agent_auth_url. | ### 402 402 Payment Required: 2 error codes. Free: errors cost nothing. | Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `insufficient_credits` | 402 | No | The account does not have enough credits for this request. | Have a person buy credits at details.purchase_url (or make them a checkout link with details.checkout), then repeat the request. Do not retry automatically. | | `spend_limit_reached` | 402 | No | The API key reached its spend limit for this period. The account may still have credits. | Wait until details.resets_at, or raise the key's spend limit (PATCH /v1/api_keys/{id}). Do not retry automatically. | ### 403 403 Forbidden: 2 error codes. Free: errors cost nothing. | Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `forbidden` | 403 | No | The API key is valid but may not make this request, and details.reason says why: the account is suspended, the key lacks the route's scope, waits for its owner to confirm it by email, has expired, or was used from an IP outside its allowlist, or a rotated key's previous secret was used for a call that needs the admin scope. A running job stops with it too when its account is suspended or the key that created it is revoked or expires. It is about the key, never the item: a private item is private_or_unavailable, also 403, so branch on the code. | Act on details.reason. suspended: contact [support](mailto:support@socialtap.dev). scope: use a key with details.required_scope. previous_secret: use the new secret. key_pending: have the owner open the emailed link. key_expired or key_revoked: create a new key. ip_not_allowed: call from an allowed IP. | | `private_or_unavailable` | 403 | No | The item exists but is not public: it is private, age- or region-restricted, or needs a login to view. It shares 403 with forbidden (which is about the key), so branch on the code. | Only public items can be fetched. Do not retry. | ### 404 404 Not Found: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing. | Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `not_found` | 404 | No | The item does not exist or was deleted. On GET /v1/requests/{id}/response: the response was not kept (details.reason says why). | Check the link or ID. Do not retry. | ### 429 429 Too Many Requests: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing. | Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `rate_limited` | 429 | Yes, later | The account passed its runaway-protection ceiling: a high per-account limit that stops a broken client loop (plans have no rate limit). Requests without an API key (signup, the MCP server's tool listing and find_endpoint) are limited per IP address instead. It also stops an account whose failed requests in the last hour cost far more than its successful ones paid for: failures are free within a limit (the message says so), and successes raise it. | Wait the seconds in the retry-after header, then retry. If your steady traffic needs more, ask [support](mailto:support@socialtap.dev) to raise the ceiling; without an API key, send one. | ### 500 500 Internal Error: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing. | Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `internal` | 500 | Yes, later | An unexpected error on SocialTap's side. | Retry with backoff. If it keeps happening, contact [support](mailto:support@socialtap.dev) with the request_id. | ### 502 502 Bad Gateway: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing. | Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `upstream_error` | 502 | Yes, later | The platform failed, or answered with something we could not read. | Retry with backoff. Failed requests are free. | ### 503 503 Unavailable: 2 error codes. Free: errors cost nothing. | Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `upstream_blocked` | 503 | Yes, later | The platform refused every attempt, our own retries included. | Retry later with backoff. Failed requests are free. | | `overloaded` | 503 | Yes, later | SocialTap was at capacity, or paused by its operators, and did not start the request. Nothing was fetched or charged. | Retry after the seconds in the retry-after header. Failed requests are free. | ## Pricing From **1 credit** per request. Charged only for successful requests. Errors are free. The price depends on the source that produced the result, reported as `meta.source`. | Source | Price per successful request | Per 1,000 requests | | --- | --- | --- | | Platform API `api` | 1 credit | $0.75–$1.97 | **Balance, sources and what you were charged** Your balance must be at least **1 credit** to start a request; with less, it is refused with [`insufficient_credits`](https://socialtap.dev/docs/errors/index.md#insufficient_credits) (HTTP 402) and costs nothing. Only that minimum is set aside when the request starts. | meta.source | Source | What it means | | --- | --- | --- | | `api` | Platform API | The platform's public, logged-out API. | `meta.credits_charged` and the `x-credits-charged` header show what you paid. 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