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SpotifyPodcasts API endpoint
Retrieve Spotify podcast show metadata
Returns normalized podcast show metadata from Spotify Pathfinder.
/spotify-podcasts/showOverview
Returns normalized podcast show metadata from Spotify Pathfinder.
Request schema
| Name | In | Type | Required | Enum | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| uri | query | string | No | spotify:show:1QQJ7FElLE0K6CIfZNCxU4 | Spotify show URI | |
| include_content_capability_trait | query | boolean | No | false | Include content capability trait | |
| include_episode_content_ratings_v2 | query | boolean | No | false | Include Spotify episode content ratings v2 | |
| x-api-key | header | string | Yes | API key required |
Authentication
Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.
Billing
Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.
- Credit cost
- 2 credits/request
- Charged response
- Successful 2xx responses
| Plan | Price | Included credits | Daily cap | Rate limit | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 2,000 | 500 daily credits | 5/min | No overage |
| Starter | $9/mo | 20,000 | 5,000 daily credits | 15/min | $0.75/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Growth | $29/mo | 100,000 | 25,000 daily credits | 45/min | $0.45/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Pro | $79/mo | 400,000 | No daily cap | 120/min | $0.30/1,000 overage credits |
| Business | $199/mo | 1,200,000 | No daily cap | 300/min | $0.20/1,000 overage credits |
| Enterprise | $499/mo | 5,000,000 | No daily cap | 1,000/min | $0.12/1,000 overage credits |
Infrastructure behavior
This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.
- Proxy strategy: managed automatically where needed
- Browser rendering: enabled for supported targets that require rendered HTML or JavaScript execution
- Browser cluster: supported dynamic workloads can be routed through distributed browser instances
- Retry behavior: automatic retry/fallback may be used depending on endpoint type
- Challenge handling: challenged pages or unusable upstream HTML are detected and surfaced clearly when they cannot be used
- Billing: credits are charged only for successful 2xx responses
- Observability: responses include request context where available
MCP
- MCP URL
- https://mcp.crawlora.net/mcp
- Tool name
- spotify_podcasts.show
- Transport
- Streamable HTTP
- Docs resource
- docs://index
Error behavior
Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.
| Status | Common failure case |
|---|---|
| 400 | Invalid input or missing required parameter |
| 429 | Plan or endpoint rate limit exceeded |
| 500 | Internal execution error |
| 502 | Upstream platform failed, returned unusable HTML, or served a challenge page that could not be resolved |
When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.
Failure responses
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Missing or invalid parameters | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Rate limit exceeded | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 502 | Spotify upstream request failed | #/definitions/app.Response |
Example response
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"uri": "spotify:show:1QQJ7FElLE0K6CIfZNCxU4",
"type": "Podcast",
"name": "Example Show",
"publisher": "Example Publisher",
"description": "A normalized show description.",
"mediaType": "AUDIO",
"totalEpisodes": 42,
"externalUrl": "https://open.spotify.com/show/1QQJ7FElLE0K6CIfZNCxU4"
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/spotify.showResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | Code is the HTTP status code or a custom code used to indicate the result of the request @example 200 | |||
| data | spotify.ShowMetadataResponse | No | ||||
| data.description | string | No | Tales from the Stinky Dragon is an actual-play comedy podcast. | |||
| data.externalUrl | string | No | https://open.spotify.com/show/1QQJ7FElLE0K6CIfZNCxU4 | |||
| data.imageUrl | string | No | https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8ab0484f8ee2933eceab32bac0 | |||
| data.images | array | No | ||||
| data.images[].height | integer | No | 640 | |||
| data.images[].url | string | No | https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8ab0484f8ee2933eceab32bac0 | |||
| data.images[].width | integer | No | 640 | |||
| data.isExplicit | boolean | No | false | |||
| data.mediaType | string | No | MIXED | |||
| data.meta | spotify.ShowMetadataMeta | No | ||||
| data.meta.appVersion | string | No | 1.2.90.403.gf901f20f | |||
| data.meta.fetchedAt | string | No | 2026-05-13T20:41:13Z | |||
| data.meta.operationName | string | No | queryShowMetadataV2 | |||
| data.name | string | No | Tales from the Stinky Dragon | |||
| data.publisher | string | No | Stinky Dragon | |||
| data.totalEpisodes | integer | No | 202 | |||
| data.type | string | No | Podcast | |||
| data.uri | string | No | spotify:show:1QQJ7FElLE0K6CIfZNCxU4 | |||
| msg | unknown | No | Msg is the message that describes the result of the request @example "Request successful" |
Code examples
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/spotify-podcasts/show?uri=spotify%3Ashow%3A1QQJ7FElLE0K6CIfZNCxU4&include_content_capability_trait=false&include_episode_content_ratings_v2=false" \
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