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Spotify

Spotify is the world's leading music streaming platform with 600M+ users and 100M+ tracks. The Spotify Web API enables developers to discover music and podcasts, manage Spotify libraries, control audio playback, access audio analysis, and build personalized music experiences. Authentication uses OAuth 2.0 with scopes for user-authorized access. The API underwent significant changes in February 2026 with new generic library endpoints and streamlined playlist management.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Spotify the way a machine reads it — 32 machine-readable artifacts across 15 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Spotify scores 63.2/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 63.2/100 · strong
Contract Quality 19.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Spotify

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Spotify. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 15

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Spotify Albums API

The Albums API from Spotify — 7 operation(s) for albums.

Spotify Artists API

The Artists API from Spotify — 7 operation(s) for artists.

Spotify Audiobooks API

The Audiobooks API from Spotify — 5 operation(s) for audiobooks.

Spotify Categories API

The Categories API from Spotify — 3 operation(s) for categories.

Spotify Chapters API

The Chapters API from Spotify — 3 operation(s) for chapters.

Spotify Episodes API

The Episodes API from Spotify — 5 operation(s) for episodes.

Spotify Genres API

The Genres API from Spotify — 1 operation(s) for genres.

Spotify Library API

The Library API from Spotify — 18 operation(s) for library.

Spotify Markets API

The Markets API from Spotify — 1 operation(s) for markets.

Spotify Player API

The Player API from Spotify — 13 operation(s) for player.

Spotify Playlists API

The Playlists API from Spotify — 10 operation(s) for playlists.

Spotify Search API

The Search API from Spotify — 1 operation(s) for search.

Spotify Shows API

The Shows API from Spotify — 5 operation(s) for shows.

Spotify Tracks API

The Tracks API from Spotify — 13 operation(s) for tracks.

Spotify Users API

The Users API from Spotify — 8 operation(s) for users.

Scroll within the panel for all 15 ·

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Spotify GraphQL Schema

This document describes a conceptual GraphQL schema for the Spotify Web API. The Spotify Web API is a RESTful service, but this schema models its resources and relationships as ...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Spotify Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Spotify Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Spotify Context

54 classes · 1 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Spotify API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Spotify API Rules

14 rules · 7 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Spotify Playlist

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Spotify Track

18 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Spotify Track Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Spotify Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Spotify Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Spotify Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Spotify Scopes

19 scopes · authorizationCode

19 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Spotify Agentic Access

96 operations · 36 acting

96 operations · 36 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Spotify — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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