Spotify Podcasts Episode API

Endpoint facts

Method

GET

API path

/spotify-podcasts/episode

Auth

apiKey

Credits

2 credits/request

Platform

SpotifyPodcasts

Response schema

#/definitions/spotify.episodeResponseDoc

MCP tool

spotify_podcasts.episode

Overview

Returns normalized public episode metadata from Spotify's getEpisodeOrChapter Pathfinder response, with episode page, embed page, and anonymous oEmbed fallbacks when Pathfinder is unavailable. Provide either uri or id; defaults to a known public episode when omitted. Developers commonly use this endpoint for data enrichment, monitoring, research dashboards, internal automation, and AI-agent workflows that need repeatable structured public web data. Authentication uses the documented Crawlora headers, and usage is metered with the credit cost shown on this page.

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

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

Response behavior

- Invalid Spotify episode IDs or URLs return `400`. - Pathfinder, upstream page, embed, and oEmbed failures, or parser drift across all sources, return `503`. - The response includes episode metadata, HTML descriptions, release precision, playability and paywall hints, audio preview URLs, video thumbnails, transcript counts, share links, and parent show metadata when available. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "uri": "spotify:episode:2C2Y5kNq7qCVOVhbA0G3os", "id": "2C2Y5kNq7qCVOVhbA0G3os", "type": "Episode", "name": "#2496 - Julia Mossbridge", "releaseDate": "2026-05-08T17:00:00Z", "durationMs": 9761982, "isExplicit": true, "isPlayable": true, "playabilityReason": "PLAYABLE", "mediaTypes": ["AUDIO", "VIDEO"], "imageUrl": "https://i.scdn.co/image/example", "videoThumbnailUrl": "https://i.scdn.co/image/video-example", "externalUrl": "https://open.spotify.com/episode/2C2Y5kNq7qCVOVhbA0G3os", "shareUrl": "https://open.spotify.com/episode/2C2Y5kNq7qCVOVhbA0G3os", "previewAudioUrl": "https://audio-preview.spotifycdn.com/example.mp3", "previewAudioUrls": ["https://audio-preview.spotifycdn.com/example.mp3"], "transcriptCount": 1, "show": { "uri": "spotify:show:4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk", "name": "The Joe Rogan Experience", "externalUrl": "https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk" }, "meta": { "operationName": "getEpisodeOrChapter", "appVersion": "1.2.90.373.g86862e17", "sourceUrl": "https://api-partner.spotify.com/pathfinder/v2/query", "fetchedAt": "2026-05-13T15:22:41Z" } } } ```

Error behavior

Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.

When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.

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