No-Code Spotify API Play Counts Scraping with HAR Files (Still Works in 2024)

👉 Scrape the Spotify Play Counts API: stevesie.com/apps/spotify-api
HAR File Web Scraper (shown in video): stevesie.com/har-file-web-scr...
Official Spotify API: developer.spotify.com/documen...
Spotify Play Count Revenue: soundcharts.com/blog/music-st...
We all know that music artists need to get paid, but exactly how much do they make on streaming platforms like Spotify? Compensation is typically paid in terms of number of streams on the platform, so artists who have higher stream counts will earn more than other artists. Unfortunately though, getting this play count data from Spotify can be tricky, as they do not return this data in their official API. However, using web traffic interception we're able to easily scrape play count data from Spotify's public website for any artist we're interested in.
In this video, we'll walk through how to scrape the play counts for all of a given artist's tracks and then analyze this data to sum up the total plays for each artist in our data set and then do some math to estimate all-time revenue. We'll also show a revenue breakdown by tracks for a popular artist to show exactly how a popular artist is earning money from Spotify streams. #spotify #musicians #revenue
0:00 Understanding Musician Revenue on Spotify
0:18 Attempting to Scrape Play & Stream Counts from Spotify's API
1:20 Overview on How to Extract Play Counts from Spotify's Website
2:28 Scraping Spotify Stream Counts from Artist Discography Pages
5:07 HAR File Parsing with Stevesie Data to Download a Bulk CSV File
6:38 Data Analysis and Visualization of Top 10 Artists All-Time Revenue
10:00 Thoughts & Conclusions

[@mcgrey_]

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!!

[@shivamjalotra7919]

too much great info in this vid, thanks stevesie

[@balasubramanianp.g6970]

Amazing tutorial! The way you put things together is inspiring, helped me save a lot of time for a data science project.

[@merism5752]

Hey 👋 can you explain what project you did, maybe we can work on something :)?

[@IsakRizell]

Great tutorial! I can only find stream count for albums. Is there a way to find it for singles as well?

[@njabulomasina4180]

Wow this is amazing

[@uboyjarvis]

HIS IS AMAZING. I have a small record label with more than 5 artists and I would love to automatically export the total streams of each artist every day to calculate their daily number of streams. Do you think this process can be automated with a bot to populate an Excel sheet? If this process can be completely automated, I would love to hire you to do it (if that’s even possible). :) Again, great video. Thank you.

[@axel9546]

Would be possible to calculate the average yearly spotify artist income, and categorize artists by 5 categories? (top, high, mid, low, verylow)

[@StevesieData]

Perhaps... if you scrape the play count data as shown in this video for top artists, you could estimate their Spotify incomes.

[@rvelch]

AMAZING! I'm looking to analyze my own Spotify Library (i.e. "Liked Songs") using play counts. My library is about 5,000 songs across 900 artists. Is it possible to pull Total Plays from a playlist, rather than individual artist discographies?

[@StevesieData]

Yes, check out this article on Spotify Playlist Scraping: stevesie.com/docs/pages/scrape-spotify-playlist-tracks-artists-popularity-data-api - but I don't think you'll be able to extract play count via API at least.

[@jinx.love.you.]

amazing...

[@caylubh]

Great video! Is there a way to reach out to you directly? There is something I am trying to work on but I am not knowledgeable enough to understand how to do it...

[@anamariaaramendiz7939]

Hi!, I couldn't find view/developer option (i'm windows/chrome user), could you please show the option? Thx!

[@travisstrawn7082]

I don't believe you are able to do this anymore. It appears Spotify no longer sends the play counts. 😕

[@rupavagetsitdone]

It does actually. Look for the right APIs. I made a nice program using it.

[@notmanurios]

@@rupavagetsitdone would you tell us the right APIs?

[@NotBen101]

Find any limits to the Json data? Are they requesting an ssl cert?

[@StevesieData]

Not sure what you mean, we're just processing JSON that was already sent to us and the browser negotiated the SSL certificate verification.

[@NotBen101]

@@StevesieData got it. I've made get requests in the past outside of the browser and needed to pull down the ssl cert and convert to a .pem file.

[@dirtbowldan5185]

Hey Stevesie i was wondering if this was still possible. I tried it myself and couldnt seem to find the stream count data.

[@dirtbowldan5185]

great vid btw

[@rupavagetsitdone]

It's still possible but the API's must've changed. I am working on a project that's using it.

[@JorgenJorgensenSonofJorgen]

who that singer in the first clip?