Track amount of all-time plays endpoint for web API

[pacyolo]

Hi there

I'm wondering why the amount of all-time plays for a track, has not been included as an endpoint in the web API? It has been public within the desktop and mobile apps for as long as I can remember, so why not for developers?

I looked under the "track object (full)" and also under "artist top tracks" endpoint references, but maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place?

All the best,

Tobias

[spencerwasden]

This is probably a duplicate of https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Songs-Play-count/m-p/4992536

Anyway, this had hundreds of upvotes in the archived web-api Github repo:

https://github.com/spotify/web-api/issues/70

[EDHMix]

Found this API that returns the streams / plays count for any track:

https://rapidapi.com/music-metrics-music-metrics-default/api/spotify-track-streams-playback-count1