Links that play the album on Spotify, and.Links to cover art for the album (in various sizes).A list of its tracks (with links to more information about them).What we have got back is basic information about that album, including: What we have just done through our browser is to ask the Web API for information about an album - specifically the album with the Spotify ID “4aawyAB9vmqN3uQ7FjRGTy”. If you’re using Chrome, you can use the JSONView plugin to see a nicely formatted view of the content.) (What you actually see depends a little on your browser settings and how it is set to handle JSON content. You should get back a page of data, in JSON format, which looks something like this: Try clicking this link and see what happens: In fact, you can access the API directly from your own browser. The Web API uses the same HTTP protocol that’s used by every internet browser. Basically it is an interface that programs can use to retrieve and manage Spotify data over the internet. Our API is what is commonly known as a RESTful API. In this post, I’d like to take you on a brief tour of the API and show you some of the programs that have already been developed with it. Today the API has 40 distinct endpoints and more are being added all the time.

Six months ago, when we launched our Web API, we provided twelve endpoints through which developers could retrieve Spotify catalog data.

Spotify web client