spotify-backup-playlist

A set of Python 3 scripts that export Spotify playlist tracks for a logged-in user.

Setup

First, ensure you're running Python 3:

python3 -V

Note: running the standard python command typically executes in Python 2:

python -V

More information about Python 2 and Python 3 here. For more information about running multiple Python versions on the same machine, click here.

spotify-backup-playlist.py

This command lets you backup an individual playlist's tracks (by playlist ID).

To obtain the playlist ID, in the Spotify desktop client (macOS, and I presume Windows also—not mobile) you can right-click a playlist in the left-hand sidebar list and select Share > Copy Spotify URI. This will output a string like so:

spotify:playlist:AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKk

Wherein the value after spotify:playlist: is the playlist id.

Alternatively, the python3 spotify-backup.py command (see below) will output the id of all of your playlists.

Pass this id value as an argument for spotify-backup-playlist.py, like so:

python3 spotify-backup-playlist.py {playlist_id}

Where {playlist_id} is the id of the playlist you'd like to back up.

This will output to a file as such:

{playlist_id} - {playlist_name}.txt

Where {playlist_id} is the id and {playlist_name} is the name of the playlist.

Fields exported for each track are as follows:

• id: track ID
• name: track name
• artists: track artists, separated by ,
• album: album name for this track
• added_at: date this track was added to the playlist
• uri: Spotify URI of track (playlist independent)
• url: Spotify URL of track (playlist independent), sharable

Open a new file in Excel and choose File > Import, and select the outputted .txt file. (Be sure to specify the File origin as Unicode (UTF-8).)

Happy backups.

spotify-backup.py

Run the script from the command line to get all playlists:

python3 spotify-backup.py playlists.txt

On first run, the script will open a web page in your browser asking you to authorize access to the Spotify API.

Adding --format=json will give you a JSON dump with everything that the script gets from the Spotify API. If for some reason the browser-based authorization flow doesn't work, you can also generate an OAuth token on the developer site (with the playlist-read-private permission) and pass it with the --token option.

Collaborative playlists and playlist folders don't show up in the API.

Limited to 50 playlists. Playlists limited to 100 tracks.