Getting Spotify play history through either the Web API or libspotify

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Is there a way to get my Spotify play history using either their js or C APIs? I saw a couple of examples, but that was using their outdated API version.

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 17 '13 at 10:28

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Spotify play history is not available through any API.

Disclaimer: I'm a Spotify employee.

answered Sep 17 '13 at 10:28

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Do you plan on making it available in the future? – kmdent Sep 17 '13 at 16:49
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Highly unlikely in the short term, as in, it's not planned as far as I know. (I'm also a Spotify employee). There is however a twist. If you are interested in getting _your_ play history and _you_ have scrobbled all of your plays to last.fm, you could extract all of it using http://www.last.fm/api/show/user.getRecentTracks – jooon Sep 24 '13 at 17:34
What about getting access through the Facebook Open Graph? – elgehelge Jun 25 '14 at 07:46
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is this still unsupported ? – Mariano Latorre Jun 30 '15 at 19:45
@MarianoLatorre et al. as mentioned by mrowa44 below, this is possible now! – Michael Jul 08 '17 at 02:51

mrowa44 · Answer 2 · 2017-03-06T22:42:29.027

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Support for this has been added recently: https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/web-api-personalization-endpoints/get-recently-played/

curl -X GET "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recently-played" -H "Authorization: Bearer {your access token}"

edited Mar 06 '17 at 22:42

answered Mar 06 '17 at 20:22

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This endpoint only gives access to the "recently played" list. Is there a way to get the full playing history by dates? – arnon cohen May 18 '21 at 13:47
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Unfortunately, with this method you can only get the 50 last played tracks, not the entire history. I tested it. – Philip Z. Mar 07 '22 at 18:33

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 17 '13 at 00:14

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It doesn't look like it.

The JavaScript Web API doesn't have a method for authentication.

The libspotify C API will handle authentication, but I don't see anything about a user's history. I could be missing it, as I'm not a C expert.

edited Sep 17 '13 at 00:14

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answered Sep 16 '13 at 23:49

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 31 '14 at 21:46

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Users can connect Spotify to Last.fm, which does store and give access to a user's play history.

answered Dec 31 '14 at 21:46

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Getting Spotify play history through either the Web API or libspotify

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