Getting Spotify play history through either the Web API or libspotify

Question

Is there a way to get my Spotify play history using either their js or C APIs? I saw a couple of examples, but that was using their outdated API version.

Galata

Answer 1

Spotify play history is not available through any API.

Disclaimer: I'm a Spotify employee.

Coquette

Do you plan on making it available in the future? – Galata

Highly unlikely in the short term, as in, it's not planned as far as I know. (I'm also a Spotify employee). There is however a twist. If you are interested in getting your play history and you have scrobbled all of your plays to last.fm, you could extract all of it using last.fm/api/show/user.getRecentTracks – Pteridology

What about getting access through the Facebook Open Graph? – Sinter

is this still unsupported ? – Straighten

@MarianoLatorre et al. as mentioned by mrowa44 below, this is possible now! – Intelligible

Answer 2

Support for this has been added recently: https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/web-api-personalization-endpoints/get-recently-played/

curl -X GET "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recently-played" -H "Authorization: Bearer {your access token}"

Phenice

This endpoint only gives access to the "recently played" list. Is there a way to get the full playing history by dates? – Weeny

Unfortunately, with this method you can only get the 50 last played tracks, not the entire history. I tested it. – Arnaldo

Answer 3

It doesn't look like it.

The JavaScript Web API doesn't have a method for authentication.

The libspotify C API will handle authentication, but I don't see anything about a user's history. I could be missing it, as I'm not a C expert.

Morea

Answer 4

Users can connect Spotify to Last.fm, which does store and give access to a user's play history.

Naamana