Spotify Track API

What is the Spotify Track API?

Pass a Spotify track URL, URI, or ID and get clean JSON: id, name (song title), playCount (stream count from Spotify's web GraphQL — same metric as artist topTracks[].playCount), trackNumber, contentRating + explicit, durationMs, artists[{id,uri,name,url}] (chain into /spotify/artist), album{id,uri,name,url,releaseDate} (chain into /spotify/album), releaseDate, and previewUrl / isrc / popularity when this Pathfinder surface exposes them. Flat 1 credit (same as artist — not 2). Pass raw=true only for the full GraphQL payload (omitted by default). Note: Spotify's official 0–100 popularity and ISRC are often absent on getTrack; playCount is the listen metric here.

What you get

• Track fields as clean structured JSON
• IDs, URLs, and titles where the platform exposes them
• Engagement or popularity signals when available
• Stable IDs for joining with other endpoints

Platform limits

Honest ceilings from the upstream platform surface — not Captapi bugs. Unexpected truncation here is usually the platform, not us.

• contentRating is Spotify's Pathfinder label enum (tracks: NONE | EXPLICIT | NINETEEN_PLUS | UNKNOWN) — not a 2-valued alias of explicit. explicit is true only when the label is EXPLICIT.

Fill in the parameters below and copy a ready-to-run request, or open the live Playground to run it against your account (no API key paste).

curl "https://api.captapi.com/v1/spotify/track?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Ftrack%2F0V3wPSX9ygBnCm8psDIegu" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer capt_live_..."
# or: -H "x-api-key: capt_live_..."

Example response

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "platform": "spotify",
    "type": "track",
    "uri": "spotify:track:0V3wPSX9ygBnCm8psDIegu",
    "url": "https://open.spotify.com/track/0V3wPSX9ygBnCm8psDIegu",
    "name": "Anti-Hero",
    "artists": [
      {
        "id": "06HL4z0CvFAxyc27GXpf02",
        "uri": "spotify:artist:06HL4z0CvFAxyc27GXpf02",
        "name": "Taylor Swift",
        "url": "https://open.spotify.com/artist/06HL4z0CvFAxyc27GXpf02"
      }
    ],
    "album": {
      "id": "151w1FgRZfnKZA9FEcg9Z3",
      "uri": "spotify:album:151w1FgRZfnKZA9FEcg9Z3",
      "name": "Midnights",
      "url": "https://open.spotify.com/album/151w1FgRZfnKZA9FEcg9Z3",
      "releaseDate": "2022-10-21T00:00:00Z"
    },
    "durationMs": 200690,
    "durationFormatted": "3:20",
    "releaseYear": 2022,
    "image": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273bb54dde68cd23e2a268ae0f5",
    "id": "0V3wPSX9ygBnCm8psDIegu",
    "playCount": 2037355549,
    "trackNumber": 3,
    "contentRating": "NONE",
    "explicit": false,
    "mediaType": "AUDIO",
    "playable": true,
    "releaseDate": "2022-10-21T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

Billing metadata is returned in response headers: X-Captapi-Credits (credits charged), X-Captapi-Cache (hit or miss), and X-Captapi-Source. Failed requests (4xx/5xx) are never charged. See the full list of error codes in the error reference.

Response structure

A successful call returns success, cached, creditsUsed, and a data object with the following fields:

Parameters

Authentication: send your key as Authorization: Bearer capt_live_.... A typical call costs 1 credit. Pass cache=true for a free 24h cache hit; default is always fresh.

How it works

1. 1. Sign up — get 100 free credits, no card required.
2. 2. Create a key from your dashboard.
3. 3. Send one request to /v1/spotify/track and parse the JSON response.

Use cases

Frequently asked questions

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