Users
Tracks
Library

Get User's Top Items

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Get the current user's top artists or tracks based on calculated affinity.

get/me/top/{type}

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.spotify.com/v1
  • URL
    https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/top/{type}
  • Auth
    OAuth 2
    Authorization code: https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize
    Token URL: https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token scopes: user-top-read

Path parameters

type'artists' | 'tracks' required

The type of entity to return. Valid values: artists or tracks

Query parameters

time_rangestring

Over what time frame the affinities are computed. Valid values: long_term (calculated from ~1 year of data and including all new data as it becomes available), medium_term (approximately last 6 months), short_term (approximately last 4 weeks). Default: medium_term

Example:medium_term
limitinteger

The maximum number of items to return. Default: 20. Minimum: 1. Maximum: 50.

Example:10
offsetinteger

The index of the first item to return. Default: 0 (the first item). Use with limit to get the next set of items.

Example:5

Response

Pages of artists or tracks

hrefstring required

A link to the Web API endpoint returning the full result of the request

limitinteger required

The maximum number of items in the response (as set in the query or by default).

nextstring nullable required

URL to the next page of items. ( null if none)

offsetinteger required

The offset of the items returned (as set in the query or by default)

previousstring nullable required

URL to the previous page of items. ( null if none)

totalinteger required

The total number of items available to return.

Example response

{
  "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/shows?offset=0&limit=20\n",
  "limit": 20,
  "next": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/shows?offset=1&limit=1",
  "previous": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/shows?offset=1&limit=1",
  "total": 4,
  "items": [
    {
      "genres": [
        "Prog rock",
        "Grunge"
      ],
      "images": [
        {
          "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e02ff9ca10b55ce82ae553c8228\n",
          "height": 300,
          "width": 300
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Changes

  • 1602059e3988Revision changes
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      response property allOf[subschema #2]/items/items/oneOf[TrackObject]/external_ids reactivated

  • 8899d6fd66eeRevision changes
    • info

      response property allOf[subschema #2]/items/items/oneOf[ArtistObject]/followers deprecated

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      response property allOf[subschema #2]/items/items/oneOf[ArtistObject]/genres deprecated

    • info

      response property allOf[subschema #2]/items/items/oneOf[ArtistObject]/popularity deprecated

    • info

      response property allOf[subschema #2]/items/items/oneOf[TrackObject]/album/allOf[SimplifiedAlbumObject]/allOf[AlbumBase]/available_markets deprecated

    • info

      response property allOf[subschema #2]/items/items/oneOf[TrackObject]/available_markets deprecated

    • info

      response property allOf[subschema #2]/items/items/oneOf[TrackObject]/external_ids deprecated

    • info

      response property allOf[subschema #2]/items/items/oneOf[TrackObject]/linked_from deprecated

    • info

      response property allOf[subschema #2]/items/items/oneOf[TrackObject]/popularity deprecated