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Spotify search

Beta GET /v1/spotify/search

GET /v1/spotify/search

Tracks, artists, albums, playlists, podcasts, episodes and audiobooks. Without type every kind is returned, 10 of each; with type, 20 of that kind. Use type=show to find podcast ids. Episodes come back as songs with extra.type "episode", audiobooks as collections. Results follow the country of the server's IP; region is accepted but does not change them.

  • Cost: 1 credit
  • Status: Beta. Built and tested against recorded responses; the shape may still gain fields.
  • Cache: Results are kept up to 30 days; send max_age_days to reuse them for free.
  • Timeout: A request still running after about 25 seconds answers 202 with a job to poll (Batch and jobs).

Parameters#

NameTypeRequiredDescription
querystringyesSearch terms. Also accepted as keyword, q.
typestringnoKind of result. One of track, album, artist, playlist, show, episode, audiobook. Also accepted values: podcast for show, podcasts for show, tracks for track, albums for album, artists for artist, playlists for playlist, episodes for episode, audiobooks for audiobook.

Every request also accepts:

  • cursor: the cursor from the previous page (Pagination).
  • region: two-letter country code for results that vary by country. Changing it restarts the cursor chain.
  • trim: true for a smaller response without null fields and extra.
  • raw: true to also get the platform's original object as raw.
  • 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).

curl
curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/spotify/search" \
  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "query=taylor swift"
Python
import os
import requests

params = {
    "query": "taylor swift",
}
res = requests.get(
    "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/spotify/search",
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},
    params=params,
)
body = res.json()

if body["ok"]:
    print(body["data"])
else:
    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])
TypeScript
const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/spotify/search");
url.search = new URLSearchParams({
  "query": "taylor swift"
}).toString();
const res = await fetch(url, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },
});
const body = await res.json();

if (body.ok) {
  console.log(body.data);
} else {
  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);
}
n8n
{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "name": "SocialScrape Spotify search",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
      "typeVersion": 4.2,
      "position": [
        0,
        0
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "method": "GET",
        "url": "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/spotify/search",
        "sendQuery": true,
        "queryParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "query",
              "value": "taylor swift"
            }
          ]
        },
        "sendHeaders": true,
        "headerParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "x-api-key",
              "value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "connections": {}
}

Example response#

This is a sample from a recorded response, lists and long text are shortened. Status 200.

{
  "ok": true,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "cached": false,
  "cached_at": null,
  "request_id": "req_30b540ee571e072da05cb2f3",
  "data": {
    "object": "list",
    "items": [
      {
        "object": "song",
        "platform": "spotify",
        "id": "5xTtaWoae3wi06K5WfVUUH",
        "url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/5xTtaWoae3wi06K5WfVUUH",
        "title": "Shake It Off",
        "artists": [
          "Taylor Swift"
        ],
        "album": "1989",
        "duration_seconds": 219.2,
        "cover_url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2739abdf14e6058bd3903686148",
        "preview_url": null,
        "released_at": null,
        "isrc": null,
        "explicit": false,
        "is_original": null,
        "stats": {
          "plays": null,
          "uses": null,
          "likes": null
        },
        "extra": {
          "album_id": "2QJmrSgbdM35R67eoGQo4j",
          "artist_ids": [
            "06HL4z0CvFAxyc27GXpf02"
          ],
          "playable": true,
          "uri": "spotify:track:5xTtaWoae3wi06K5WfVUUH",
          "video_count": 1
        }
      },
      {
        "object": "song",
        "platform": "spotify",
        "id": "3GCL1PydwsLodcpv0Ll1ch",
        "url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/3GCL1PydwsLodcpv0Ll1ch",
        "title": "You Belong With Me",
        "artists": [
          "Taylor Swift"
        ],
        "album": "Fearless",
        "duration_seconds": 231.133,
        "cover_url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2737b25c072237f29ee50025fdc",
        "preview_url": null,
        "released_at": null,
        "isrc": null,
        "explicit": false,
        "is_original": null,
        "stats": {
          "plays": null,
          "uses": null,
          "likes": null
        },
        "extra": {
          "album_id": "2dqn5yOQWdyGwOpOIi9O4x",
          "artist_ids": [
            "06HL4z0CvFAxyc27GXpf02"
          ],
          "playable": true,
          "uri": "spotify:track:3GCL1PydwsLodcpv0Ll1ch",
          "video_count": 1
        }
      }
    ],
    "cursor": "eyJvIjoxMH0",
    "has_more": true,
    "parent": null
  },
  "cursor": "eyJvIjoxMH0",
  "has_more": true
}

Response#

A list of Song or Album or Profile or Collection objects in data.items, with data.cursor and data.has_more.

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.

CodeHTTPRetryMeaning
invalid_params400noA parameter is missing, unknown or has the wrong type.
not_found404noThe 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.