Spotify API endpoint
Use Crawlora's Spotify Home API to extract supported public Spotify data as structured JSON. This page includes request parameters, cURL examples, response schema, error behavior, credit cost, and a Playground link for testing before integration.
/spotify/homeReturns normalized shelves and items from Spotify's Web Player home Pathfinder response. The endpoint fetches anonymous Spotify credentials at request time; caller-supplied Spotify bearer or client tokens are not required. 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.
Request parameters are generated from the active endpoint catalog. Required values must be sent before Crawlora can call the upstream public web data source.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| time_zone | string | No | IANA time zone used by Spotify home personalization | Asia/Shanghai | |
| sp_t | string | No | Optional Spotify session token. A random UUID is generated when omitted | 00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000 | |
| facet | string | No | Optional Spotify home facet | ||
| section_items_limit | integer | No | Per-section item limit, clamped to 1-50 | 10 | |
| include_episode_content_ratings_v2 | boolean | No | Include Spotify episode content ratings v2 | false | |
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/spotify/home?time_zone=Asia%2FShanghai&sp_t=00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000&facet=§ion_items_limit=10&include_episode_content_ratings_v2=false" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.
Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.
| 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 |
This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.
- Upstream token, app config, or Pathfinder failures return `503`. - The response includes normalized section titles, item metadata, image assets, external Spotify URLs, and fetch metadata. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "timeZone": "UTC", "greeting": "Good evening", "sections": [ { "title": "Shows to try", "items": [ { "uri": "spotify:show:1QQJ7FElLE0K6CIfZNCxU4", "type": "Podcast", "title": "Example Show", "imageUrl": "https://i.scdn.co/image/example", "externalUrl": "https://open.spotify.com/show/1QQJ7FElLE0K6CIfZNCxU4" } ] } ], "meta": { "operationName": "home", "appVersion": "1.2.90.373.g86862e17", "sectionCount": 1, "fetchedAt": "2026-05-13T15:22:41Z" } } } ```
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.
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Missing or invalid parameters | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 429 | Rate limit exceeded | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Spotify upstream request failed | #/definitions/app.Response |
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"timeZone": "UTC",
"greeting": "Good evening",
"sections": [
{
"title": "Shows to try",
"items": [
{
"uri": "spotify:show:1QQJ7FElLE0K6CIfZNCxU4",
"type": "Podcast",
"title": "Example Show",
"imageUrl": "https://i.scdn.co/image/example",
"externalUrl": "https://open.spotify.com/show/1QQJ7FElLE0K6CIfZNCxU4"
}
]
}
],
"meta": {
"operationName": "home",
"appVersion": "1.2.90.373.g86862e17",
"sectionCount": 1,
"fetchedAt": "2026-05-13T15:22:41Z"
}
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/spotify.homeResponseDoc
| 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.HomeResponse | No | ||||
| data.facet | string | No | music | |||
| data.greeting | string | No | Good afternoon | |||
| data.meta | spotify.HomeMeta | No | ||||
| data.meta.appVersion | string | No | 1.2.90.403.gf901f20f | |||
| data.meta.fetchedAt | string | No | 2026-05-13T20:41:12Z | |||
| data.meta.operationName | string | No | home | |||
| data.meta.sectionCount | integer | No | 8 | |||
| data.sections | array | No | ||||
| data.sections[].items | array | No | ||||
| data.sections[].items[].description | string | No | The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan. | |||
| data.sections[].items[].externalUrl | string | No | https://open.spotify.com/show/4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk | |||
| data.sections[].items[].imageUrl | string | No | https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1f54e6837957803d762a3f4d2b | |||
| data.sections[].items[].images | array | No | ||||
| data.sections[].items[].images[].height | integer | No | 640 | |||
| data.sections[].items[].images[].url | string | No | https://i.scdn.co/image/ab6765630000ba8ab0484f8ee2933eceab32bac0 | |||
| data.sections[].items[].images[].width | integer | No | 640 | |||
| data.sections[].items[].publisher | string | No | Joe Rogan | |||
| data.sections[].items[].subtitle | string | No | Joe Rogan | |||
| data.sections[].items[].title | string | No | The Joe Rogan Experience | |||
| data.sections[].items[].type | string | No | Podcast | |||
| data.sections[].items[].uri | string | No | spotify:show:4rOoJ6Egrf8K2IrywzwOMk | |||
| data.sections[].subtitle | string | No | Recommended shows | |||
| data.sections[].title | string | No | Popular podcasts | |||
| data.sections[].totalCount | integer | No | 20 | |||
| data.sections[].type | string | No | BrowseGenericSectionData | |||
| data.sections[].uri | string | No | spotify:section:0JQ5IMCbQBLqNPkcmYxQPQ | |||
| data.timeZone | string | No | UTC | |||
| msg | unknown | No | Msg is the message that describes the result of the request @example "Request successful" |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/spotify/home?time_zone=Asia%2FShanghai&sp_t=00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000&facet=§ion_items_limit=10&include_episode_content_ratings_v2=false" \
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