b0o / spotify-export

Export a listing of your saved tracks as JSON

Spotify Export

Export a listing of your saved tracks as JSON.

Usage

1. Install this tool locally

• 1. git clone https://github.com/b0o/spotify-export
• 2. cd spotify-export
• 3. npm install

2. Navigate to the Spotify Web Player and sign in

3. Obtain your auth token

• 1. Open your browser's devtools
• 2. Select the Network tab
• 3. Refresh the page
• 4. Find any request to the domain api.spotify.com
• 5. Select the request, then under Request Headers find the authorization: Bearer ... header
• 6. Right click and copy the header

4. Run index.js, passing your auth token, and redirect stdout to a file:

$ ./index.js "authorization: Bearer <token>" > spotify-saved-songs.json

5. You can use jq to transform the JSON output as desired, e.g:

$ jq -r '.[] | "\(.track.artists | map(.name) | join(", ")) — \(.track.name)"' spotify-saved-songs.json
Photay — Warmth in the Coldest Acre
Photay — Existential Celebration
Photay — Pressure
Ol' Burger Beats — Bare Horisont - Instrumental
James Blake — Love What Happened Here
Eli Keszler — Measurement Doesn’t Change The System At All
Aphex Twin — Alberto Balsalm
Robbie Basho — Clair de lune (For Twelve-String) [Live]
Mount Kimbie, James Blake — How We Got By
Mount Kimbie — Delta
...

License

© 2020 Maddison Hellstrom

Released under the GNU General Public License, version 3.0 or later.