Spotify Web API
  1. category-artists
Spotify Web API
  • category-albums
    • Get Multiple Albums
      GET
    • Get an Album
      GET
    • Get an Album's Tracks
      GET
  • category-artists
    • Get Multiple Artists
      GET
    • Get an Artist
      GET
    • Get an Artist's Albums
      GET
    • Get an Artist's Related Artists
      GET
    • Get an Artist's Top Tracks
      GET
  • category-tracks
    • Get Audio Analysis for a Track
      GET
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      GET
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    • Get Several Tracks
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    • Get a Track
      GET
  • category-browse
    • Get All Categories
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    • Get a Category
      GET
    • Get a Category's Playlists
      GET
    • Get All Featured Playlists
      GET
    • Get All New Releases
      GET
    • Get Recommendations
      GET
    • Get Recommendation Genres
      GET
  • category-episodes
    • Get Multiple Episodes
      GET
    • Get an Episode
      GET
  • category-markets
    • Get Available Markets
      GET
  • category-users-profile
    • Get Current User's Profile
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    • Remove Albums for Current User
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    • Remove User's Saved Shows
    • Get User's Saved Shows
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    • Get User's Saved Tracks
    • Save Tracks for User
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  • category-follow
    • Unfollow Artists or Users
    • Get User's Followed Artists
    • Follow Artists or Users
    • Get Following State for Artists/Users
    • Unfollow Playlist
    • Follow a Playlist
    • Check if Users Follow a Playlist
  • category-player
    • Get Information About The User's Current Playback
    • Transfer a User's Playback
    • Get the User's Currently Playing Track
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    • Skip User’s Playback To Next Track
    • Pause a User's Playback
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    • Add an item to queue
    • Get Current User's Recently Played Tracks
    • Set Repeat Mode On User’s Playback
    • Seek To Position In Currently Playing Track
    • Toggle Shuffle For User’s Playback
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  • category-playlists
    • Get a List of Current User's Playlists
    • Get a Playlist
    • Change a Playlist's Details
    • Get a Playlist Cover Image
    • Upload a Custom Playlist Cover Image
    • Remove Items from a Playlist
    • Get a Playlist's Items
    • Add Items to a Playlist
    • Reorder or Replace a Playlist's Items
    • Get a List of a User's Playlists
    • Create a Playlist
  • category-personalization
    • Get a User's Top Artists and Tracks
  • category-search
    • Search for an Item
  • category-shows
    • Get Multiple Shows
    • Get a Show
    • Get a Show's Episodes
  1. category-artists

Get an Artist

Developing
GET
/artists/{id}
category-artists
Get Spotify catalog information for a single artist identified by their unique Spotify ID.
Request Request Example
Shell
JavaScript
Java
Swift
curl --location --request GET 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/' \
--header 'Authorization;'
Response Response Example
200 - Example 1
{
    "external_urls": {
        "spotify": "string"
    },
    "followers": {
        "href": "string",
        "total": 0
    },
    "genres": [
        "string"
    ],
    "href": "string",
    "id": "string",
    "images": [
        {
            "height": 0,
            "url": "string",
            "width": 0
        }
    ],
    "name": "string",
    "popularity": 0,
    "type": "string",
    "uri": "string"
}

Request

Path Params
id
string 
required
The Spotify ID of the artist.
Header Params
Authorization
string 
required
A valid user access token or your client credentials.

Responses

🟢200On success, the HTTP status code in the response header is `200` OK and the response body contains an [artist object](https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/#object-artistobject) in JSON format. On error, the header status code is a
application/json
Body
external_urls
object (ExternalUrlObject) 
optional
spotify
string 
optional
The Spotify URL for the object.
followers
object (FollowersObject) 
optional
href
string 
optional
A link to the Web API endpoint providing full details of the followers; null if not available. Please note that this will always be set to null, as the Web API does not support it at the moment.
total
integer <int32>
optional
The total number of followers.
genres
array[string]
optional
A list of the genres the artist is associated with. If not yet classified, the array is empty.
href
string 
optional
A link to the Web API endpoint providing full details of the artist.
id
string 
optional
The Spotify ID for the artist.
images
array[object (ImageObject) {3}] 
optional
Images of the artist in various sizes, widest first.
height
integer <int32>
optional
The image height in pixels.
url
string 
optional
The source URL of the image.
width
integer <int32>
optional
The image width in pixels.
name
string 
optional
The name of the artist.
popularity
integer <int32>
optional
The popularity of the artist. The value will be between 0 and 100, with 100 being the most popular. The artist's popularity is calculated from the popularity of all the artist's tracks.
type
string 
optional
The object type.
uri
string 
optional
The Spotify URI for the artist.
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