Artists

Get Artist

Changed on

Get Spotify catalog information for a single artist identified by their unique Spotify ID.

get/artists/{id}

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.spotify.com/v1
  • URL
    https://api.spotify.com/v1/artists/{id}
  • Auth
    OAuth 2
    Authorization code: https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize
    Token URL: https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token

Path parameters

idstring required

The Spotify ID of the artist.

Example:0TnOYISbd1XYRBk9myaseg

Response

An artist

genresstring[]

A list of the genres the artist is associated with. If not yet classified, the array is empty.

hrefstring

A link to the Web API endpoint providing full details of the artist.

idstring

The Spotify ID for the artist.

namestring

The name of the artist.

popularityinteger

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'artist'

The object type.

uristring

The Spotify URI for the artist.

Example response

{
  "genres": [
    "Prog rock",
    "Grunge"
  ],
  "images": [
    {
      "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e02ff9ca10b55ce82ae553c8228\n",
      "height": 300,
      "width": 300
    }
  ]
}

Changes

  • 8899d6fd66eeRevision changes
    • info

      response property followers deprecated

    • info

      response property genres deprecated

    • info

      response property popularity deprecated