Get Track release date in Spotify

Question

I need to get actual Spotify release date of the track (the date, when track appeared on the service). Is it possible to get this date from Spotify API?

Welldisposed

Answer 1

You can retrieve a track's release date from the album it's part of. Use the Get an Album endpoint and read the release_date attribute. Note that the format of the attribute will depend on the value in the release_date_precision attribute.

Edit: The date when the album appeared on Spotify isn't exposed in the API.

Diocese

Yeah, but I guess it's a release of the Album worldwide but not the date when it appeared in spotify. – Welldisposed

Answer 2

I was looking for something like this and I got it with Spotipy, a package from Python. I don't now if this is the best coding, but it works very well.

I used two packages from Python: spotipy to get the data from Spotify and pandas to beutify the output information.

For more information about Spotipy integration with Spotify, I recommend you read this article on Medium.

Here's the code:

import spotipy
import pandas as pd
from spotipy.oauth2 import SpotifyClientCredentials

CLIENT_ID = YOUR_CLIENT_ID
CLIENT_SECRET = YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET
MY_USERNAME = YOUR_SPOTIFY_USERNAME
MY_PLAYLIST_ID = YOUR_SPOTIFY_PLAYLIST_ID

sp = spotipy.Spotify(client_credentials_manager=SpotifyClientCredentials(client_id=CLIENT_ID, client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET))


def get_playlist_tracks(username, playlist_id):
    results = sp.user_playlist_tracks(username, playlist_id)
    tracks = results['items']
    while results['next']:
        results = sp.next(results)
        tracks.extend(results['items'])
    return tracks


all_tracks = get_playlist_tracks(MY_USERNAME, MY_PLAYLIST_ID)

all_track_names = []
for i in all_tracks:
    all_track_names.append([i['track']['name'], i['track']['album']['release_date'][:4]])

df = pd.DataFrame(all_track_names, columns=['Track', 'Released'])
print(df)

You just need to install the two packages that I mentioned before and change the values from CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET, MY_USERNAME and MY_PLAYLIST_ID.

I hope you enjoy it.

Souse