Get Followed Artists

GET/me/following

Get the current user's followed artists.

Query ParametersExpand Collapse

type: "artist"

The ID type: currently only artist is supported.

after: optional string

The last artist ID retrieved from the previous request.

limit: optional number

The maximum number of items to return. Default: 20. Minimum: 1. Maximum: 50.

minimum1

maximum50

ReturnsExpand Collapse

artists: object { cursors, href, items, 4 more }

cursors: optional object { after, before, published }

The cursors used to find the next set of items.

after: optional string

The cursor to use as key to find the next page of items.

before: optional string

The cursor to use as key to find the previous page of items.

published: optional boolean

The playlist's public/private status (if it should be added to the user's profile or not): true the playlist will be public, false the playlist will be private, null the playlist status is not relevant. For more about public/private status, see Working with Playlists

href: optional string

A link to the Web API endpoint returning the full result of the request.

items: optional array of ArtistObject { id, external_urls, followers, 8 more }

id: optional string

The Spotify ID for the artist.

external_urls: optional ExternalURLObject { published, spotify }

Known external URLs for this artist.

published: optional boolean

spotify: optional string

The Spotify URL for the object.

followers: optional FollowersObject { href, published, total }

Information about the followers of the artist.

href: optional string

This will always be set to null, as the Web API does not support it at the moment.

published: optional boolean

total: optional number

The total number of followers.

genres: optional array of string

A list of the genres the artist is associated with. If not yet classified, the array is empty.

href: optional string

A link to the Web API endpoint providing full details of the artist.

images: optional array of ImageObject { height, url, width, published }

Images of the artist in various sizes, widest first.

height: number

The image height in pixels.

url: string

The source URL of the image.

width: number

The image width in pixels.

published: optional boolean

name: optional string

The name of the artist.

popularity: optional number

The popularity of the artist. The value will be between 0 and 100, with 100 being the most popular. The artist's popularity is calculated from the popularity of all the artist's tracks.

published: optional boolean

type: optional "artist"

The object type.

uri: optional string

The Spotify URI for the artist.

limit: optional number

The maximum number of items in the response (as set in the query or by default).

next: optional string

URL to the next page of items. ( null if none)

published: optional boolean

total: optional number

The total number of items available to return.

Get Followed Artists

curl https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/following \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPOTIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN"

{
  "artists": {
    "cursors": {
      "after": "after",
      "before": "before",
      "published": true
    },
    "href": "href",
    "items": [
      {
        "id": "id",
        "external_urls": {
          "published": true,
          "spotify": "spotify"
        },
        "followers": {
          "href": "href",
          "published": true,
          "total": 0
        },
        "genres": [
          "Prog rock",
          "Grunge"
        ],
        "href": "href",
        "images": [
          {
            "height": 300,
            "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e02ff9ca10b55ce82ae553c8228\n",
            "width": 300,
            "published": true
          }
        ],
        "name": "name",
        "popularity": 0,
        "published": true,
        "type": "artist",
        "uri": "uri"
      }
    ],
    "limit": 0,
    "next": "next",
    "published": true,
    "total": 0
  }
}

Returns Examples

{
  "artists": {
    "cursors": {
      "after": "after",
      "before": "before",
      "published": true
    },
    "href": "href",
    "items": [
      {
        "id": "id",
        "external_urls": {
          "published": true,
          "spotify": "spotify"
        },
        "followers": {
          "href": "href",
          "published": true,
          "total": 0
        },
        "genres": [
          "Prog rock",
          "Grunge"
        ],
        "href": "href",
        "images": [
          {
            "height": 300,
            "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e02ff9ca10b55ce82ae553c8228\n",
            "width": 300,
            "published": true
          }
        ],
        "name": "name",
        "popularity": 0,
        "published": true,
        "type": "artist",
        "uri": "uri"
      }
    ],
    "limit": 0,
    "next": "next",
    "published": true,
    "total": 0
  }
}