How to find a song ID on Spotify

To identify unique Australian musicians, we use Spotify ID to query Spotify for details to use in our charts. Finding a Spotify ID for an artist is trivial to do.

Visit the artist page on Spotify (web or desktop). Ensure the artist is correct – there may be other bands or artists with the same name.

Go to the ‘Copy Artist Link’ menu item, as shown below.

Click the ‘Copy Artist Link’ and then open a text editor. From here, paste the link.

The Spotify artist ID is the part of the URL between the trailing slash after /artist/ and the question mark, as illustrated in highlight below.

That’s it! You now have the artists Spotify ID.

It has been a few years, and I am curious how far you got with this project. I was doing the same thing around 2016 as well. I am just picking up the project again, and noticing you still cannot do large bulk ID queries by Artist,Title.

For now I am just handling HttpStatusCode 429 and sleeping the thread as I loop through a library. It's kind of slow but, I mean it gets the job done. After I get them I do the AudioFeatures query for 100 tracks at a time so it goes pretty quickly that way.

So far, this is the slowest part and I really wish there was a better way to do it, or even a way to make your own 'Audio Features' based on your library It just takes a lot of computing cycles. However ... one possible outcome might be to only do it for tracks that you cannot find on Spotify ;s