Get all editorial playlists from Spotify through the API

[AlexDaschner]

 I am working on a web application fro which I need to have a list of all the editorial playlists of Spotify. I could successfully grab editorial playlists using "spotify" as user ID, but even using an offset, I am not able to get more that 1377 playlists. I know there have to be more playlists because there are several editorial playlists (spanish editorial playlists) that are not under the 1377 I am able to get access to.

Does anyone know how I could get access to the complete list of playlists through the Spotify API?

Thanks a lot in advance!

[Ximzend]

Hey AlexDaschner,

To find playlists by Spotify, you can use these Category endpoints:

• Get Several Browse Categories (console)
• Get Category's Playlists (console)

For both endpoints  you need a list of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes of the countries that have Spotify. Sadly I don't have that list for you, but I hope I helped you a little further along the way.

Cheers,

[AlexDaschner]

Hey Ximzend 🙂

Thanks a lot for your answer! Could you please explain a little bit more in detail what you mean? I am not understanding what I have to do to get the editorial playlists with those endpoints.

Thanks a lot!

[AlexDaschner]

Hey Ximzend 🙂

Thanks a lot for your answer. Could you please explain a little bit more in detail what you mean? I am not understanding what I have to do to get the editorial playlists with those endpoints.

Thanks a lot

[Ximzend]

I wrote code to get all playlists from all categories from a specific country.

Of which country do you want all playlists and in which language should the playlist names be.

I'll post a spreadsheet in a new comment after you've replied.

Note: I only got 844 playlists for the Netherlands this way.

Edit: that was caused by a bug. Now I got 1888 for the Netherlands.

[AlexDaschner]

Hey 🙂

Spain and spanish would be great!

Thanks a lot again

[Ximzend]

Here is a CSV file of 1953 editorial playlists I could find for Spain.

Sadly, I couldn't set a language for the playlist names, so most of them are in English.

Note: Mush playlists could be personalized by a computer algorithm, so are not actually made by an editor.

Edit: there was a bug in my code and is now fixed. I added the new file to this comment.

Edit: deleted the file because off no thank you or kudo

[Ximzend]

I checked the list from the Netherlands with the app, and I noticed that I'm missing a lot of playlists…

Edit: There was a bug in my code, so I got only 800 before I fixed it 😅. (See my other comment for the file)

Edit: deleted the file because off no thank you or kudo

[_M-I-K-I_]

May I ask for all playlists for Poland, and Russia?

[Ximzend]

Here are the playlists for Poland. For Russia, it's impossible, because that country hasn't access to Spotify anymore.

Edit: deleted the file because off no thank you or kudo

[tripnikk]

Hey Ximzend, Would you be able to share the playlists for America?

[tripnikk]

Edit: request withdrawn because of no response or kudo

[Ximzend]

You can do it yourself in your favorite programming language:

1.  Get all the IDs of the categories using the Get Several Browse Categories endpoint endpoint. (First one request with an offset of 0 and a limit of 50. Then one with a offset of 50 to get all 50.)
2. Use the category IDs to with a loop to get all the playlists using the Get Category's Playlists endpoint. (First one request with an offset of 0 and a limit of 50. Then add 50 to the offset until the total from the response is met.)

I hope this helps.

[tripnikk]

Thank you