spotify_playcount.py

import requests, json
from datetime import datetime

# Get access token
r_token = requests.get("https://open.spotify.com/get_access_token?reason=transport&productType=web_player").json()
token = r_token["accessToken"]
token_expiration = datetime.fromtimestamp(r_token["accessTokenExpirationTimestampMs"] / 1000)

# Get album playcount
def get_playcount(album_id):
    headers = {
        "Authorization": "Bearer " + token
    }
    params = {
        "operationName": "queryAlbumTracks",
        "variables": json.dumps({
            "uri": "spotify:album:" + album_id,
            "offset": 0,
            "limit": 300
        }),
        "extensions": json.dumps({
            "persistedQuery": {
                "version": 1,
                "sha256Hash": "3ea563e1d68f486d8df30f69de9dcedae74c77e684b889ba7408c589d30f7f2e"
            }
        })
    }
    r_playcount = requests.get("https://api-partner.spotify.com/pathfinder/v1/query", headers=headers, params=params).json()
    for track in r_playcount["data"]["album"]["tracks"]["items"]:
        print("%s - %s" % (track["track"]["name"], track["track"]["playcount"]))

get_playcount("04Duapg2mNlVykd895xcfZ")

Thank you for this!! You are the best person in the world for figuring out how to use this API!!!! I was webscraping data off of the physical search page with playwright but timeouts were crashing my server. This solution is WAYYY better!

Bro! That's amazing! Is it possible to modify the script so it works with playlists, instead of albums? I'm also trying to find a way to search for a track in a set of playlists. Any idea how that could work? Spotify closed the endpoint for editorial playlists.. Thank you so much!

relevant /get_access_token changes:
entriphy/sp-playcount@c24149e
entriphy/sp-playcount@a7a3e0d