Get Spotify Codes from the API

[gesteves]

This might already be on your roadmap, but just in case: I'd love to be able to get the Spotify Code for any given album, artist, playlist or track via the API, either by including the code image in the album/artist/track/playlist objects in API calls (similar to the images array), or by calling a separate endpoint to fetch it.

[hughrawlinson]

That sounds like a great feature request! Could you share your use case please?

[gesteves]

Sure thing. I've been messing with the recommendations endpoint to try to build a Slack bot that takes some tracks, artists, and/or genres and builds a playlist with recommendations based on those seeds, and I thought it'd be helpful if the output that is posted to Slack included the Spotify Code for the generated playlist as an image. I could just link to the playlist, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who uses Spotify primarily on mobile, so being able to scan the code with my phone would be super helpful.

[webserviceXXL]

Just searched for a Spotify Code API and found this thread. Really would love this feature too!

[bensleveritt]

I'm looking to display the code on a speaker system in a public space so that others can scan tracks they like and take them away with them.

[christophermh44]

Another use case: I am updating a player for my webradio, I wanted to put this code below the album cover.

[tennisrodman]

Is there anyone to know if this is on the roadmap or not?

[AlbertMN]

+1

[Ryan-Sheehan]

Bump this

[zanona]

Hey guys, react to the initial request with a thumbs up so the devs can measure how much this is being requested. — I would love to be able to use this as well.

[bih]

Hey folks!

As per our new developer support process, any feature requests that have no plans to be considered in the next 6 months will be closed as wontfix.

In this particular case, there is work needed for Spotify Codes in order to release them in an Web API. I cannot go into details, but there is no plans to consider implementing this over the next 6 months. However, I do agree it is a valid suggestion for the Web API.

We encourage you and other members of the community to continue to share use cases and your support for this feature, as it helps us prioritize features going forward. You should be able to comment on this issue even after it is closed. We will also post updates here relating to this suggestion as and when they happen.

Hope this clears things up. Cheers 👍

[LukyVj]

Hello, is it still not a thing? I'm interested as well to get the spotify codes.

[Rickgrendel]

Hello for people still interested in this I have a (possible) solution. Use this URL:

https://scannables.scdn.co/uri/plain/png/000000/white/640/spotify:playlist:0qtAGoh3i4qOdw0pKaFjMz

with this formatting:

https://scannables.scdn.co/uri/plain/[format]/[background-color-in-hex]/[code-color-in-text]/[size]/[spotify-URI]

[zanona]

That's awesome!! Thanks so much for sharing this @Rickgrendel

[LukyVj]

Wow, thanks, that can indeed be a solution!

[1deadpixl]

Hello for people still interested in this I have a (possible) solution.

@Rickgrendel This is awesome! Thanks for sharing. Is the source code available for this? Or can you share any reference for creating the Spotify code? I thought this might be possible to do locally just using the Spotify URI.

[hjstn]

Hello for people still interested in this I have a (possible) solution.

@Rickgrendel This is awesome! Thanks for sharing. Is the source code available for this? Or can you share any reference for creating the Spotify code? I thought this might be possible to do locally just using the Spotify URI.

This looks like what the official Spotify Codes website uses behind-the-scenes.

Actually, if you set the generator to use SVG, and have a look at how the code is generated, there's a bit to be learned. The height range of each bar is between 11.00 and 60.00 inclusive, with every 7th pixel being valid (so 11, 18, 25, 32, 39, 46, 53, 60, these eight possible values). With 23 bars, it looks like the Spotify Code encodes the URI somehow in this format.

I'm not sure how it does that, but perhaps this would be useful to work off of.

[1deadpixl]

Hello for people still interested in this I have a (possible) solution.

@Rickgrendel This is awesome! Thanks for sharing. Is the source code available for this? Or can you share any reference for creating the Spotify code? I thought this might be possible to do locally just using the Spotify URI.

This looks like what the official Spotify Codes website uses behind-the-scenes.

Actually, if you set the generator to use SVG, and have a look at how the code is generated, there's a bit to be learned. The height range of each bar is between 11.00 and 60.00 inclusive, with every 7th pixel being valid (so 11, 18, 25, 32, 39, 46, 53, 60, these eight possible values). With 23 bars, it looks like the Spotify Code encodes the URI somehow in this format.

I'm not sure how it does that, but perhaps this would be useful to work off of.

Thanks for RE summary—it's a great starting point for the creating the Spotify Codes. I realized later that for my application, where I want to give users an easy way to get to the Spotify track listing after reading the track info on my dashboard, I could generate a QR Code with the Spotify URL. Users are able to scan the QR Code and it deep links to the Spotify app on their device. This is for personal use and my iPhone camera will scan QR Codes which makes it very quick—not sure about the process for non-iOS devices, but I imagine it's fairly quick as well. So as an alternative to Spotify Codes, QR Codes work very well.