Spotify MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for interacting with the Spotify Web API. Enables AI assistants like Claude to search music, control playback, manage playlists, and more.

Features

• Search - Find tracks, albums, artists, playlists, shows, episodes, and audiobooks
• Playback Control - Play, pause, skip, seek, volume, shuffle, repeat, queue management
• Playlists - Create, update, add/remove/reorder tracks (auto-chunks large batches)
• Library - View and manage saved tracks, albums, shows, episodes, and audiobooks
• Browse - Get details on tracks, albums, artists, episodes, and chapters
• Podcasts & Audiobooks - Browse shows, episodes, audiobooks, and chapters
• Follow - List followed artists; follow/unfollow artists, users, and playlists through the library tools by URI
• User Profile - View profile, top artists/tracks, diagnostic whoami
• Resources - Subscribable snapshots of profile, playback, queue, top items
• Prompts - Pre-baked workflows for playlist building, listening summaries, library cleanup
• Transports - stdio (default), sse, and streamable-http
• Uses only non-deprecated Spotify Web API endpoints

Example interactions

• "What am I listening to right now?"
• "Play some Radiohead on my living room speaker."
• "Skip this track and turn the volume down to 30."
• "Build me a playlist of 25 chill tracks based on what I've been listening to this week."
• "Add the last three songs I played to my 'Focus' playlist."
• "Show me my top artists from the last six months."
• "Search for live albums by Nils Frahm and save the best one to my library."
• "Unfollow every playlist I haven't opened that wasn't made by me."
• "Queue up the next episode of the show I was listening to yesterday."

Prerequisites

• uv — install with curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
• A Spotify Developer account
• A Spotify app with Client ID and Client Secret

Getting Your Spotify Credentials

1. Go to the Spotify Developer Dashboard
2. Click Create App
3. Fill in the app details:
   • App name: Choose any name (e.g., "My MCP Server")
   • App description: Optional
   • Redirect URI: http://127.0.0.1:8888/callback
   • Which API/SDKs are you planning to use?: Select Web API
4. Click Save
5. On your app's page, find your Client ID
6. Click Show client secret to reveal your Client Secret

Important: The redirect URI must exactly match http://127.0.0.1:8888/callback (or whatever you set in SPOTIFY_REDIRECT_URI). Do not use localhost — use 127.0.0.1.

Installation

Pick your client below. All examples use uvx to fetch the server on demand — no clone, no manual install.

Claude Code

claude mcp add spotify \
  -e SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID=your_client_id \
  -e SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret \
  -- uvx mcp-server-spotify

Other MCP clients

Most MCP clients configure servers via a JSON file. Add this entry to your client's MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "spotify": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-server-spotify"],
      "env": {
        "SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID": "your_client_id",
        "SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET": "your_client_secret"
      }
    }
  }
}

Running from a local checkout

For development, or if you want to run a modified copy:

git clone https://github.com/llyfn/spotify-mcp.git
cd spotify-mcp && uv sync

Then point your client at the local checkout instead of uvx:

"command": "uv",
"args": ["--directory", "/absolute/path/to/spotify-mcp", "run", "mcp-server-spotify"]

Configuration

Variable	Required	Default	Description
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID	Yes	—	Your Spotify app's Client ID
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET	Yes	—	Your Spotify app's Client Secret
SPOTIFY_REDIRECT_URI	No	http://127.0.0.1:8888/callback	OAuth redirect URI
SPOTIFY_MCP_TRANSPORT	No	stdio	MCP transport: stdio, sse, or streamable-http

Spotify API notes

Development-mode Spotify apps have these restrictions (see the February 2026 migration guide):

• The app owner needs an active Spotify Premium subscription.
• API quota is shared by all Client IDs on the developer account. When it runs out, tools report Quota exceeded.
• Search returns at most 10 results per type.
• Full playlist contents are only returned for playlists you own or collaborate on.
• Following artists via save_to_library/remove_from_library relies on live API behaviour; the OpenAPI spec documents artist URIs only for the check endpoint.

Upgrading from 0.2.x

Spotify removed several endpoints and fields from its Web API. If you're upgrading from an older version of this server, note the following:

• follow_artists_or_users / unfollow_artists_or_users / check_following / follow_playlist / unfollow_playlist are gone. Use save_to_library / remove_from_library / check_saved_in_library instead, passing spotify:artist:..., spotify:user:..., or spotify:playlist:... URIs.
• get_albums / get_artists / get_tracks / get_shows / get_episodes / get_audiobooks / get_chapters (the batch lookup tools) are gone — Spotify removed the batch endpoints, which now return 403 for development-mode apps. Call the single-item tools (get_album, get_artist, get_track, get_show, get_episode, get_audiobook, get_chapter) once per ID instead.
• follow_playlist's public/private flag has no equivalent in /me/library — playlists followed via save_to_library can't be marked public or private.
• Profile output (get_my_profile) no longer includes email, country, plan, or follower count; the user-read-email scope is no longer requested.

Authentication

The server uses Spotify's Authorization Code flow:

1. On first use, the server opens your browser to Spotify's login page
2. Spotify will ask you to approve access — the server requests all scopes needed for the full tool set (playback, library, playlists, and user data)
3. After you authorize, Spotify redirects to the local callback server
4. The server exchanges the authorization code for access/refresh tokens
5. Tokens are stored securely in ~/.spotify-mcp/credentials.json
6. Tokens are automatically refreshed when they expire

If running in a headless environment (SSH, Docker), the auth URL will be printed to stderr — copy and paste it into a browser manually.

Re-authenticating

To re-authenticate (e.g., after revoking access), delete the stored credentials:

rm ~/.spotify-mcp/credentials.json

Available Tools

Search

Tool	Description
search	Search for tracks, albums, artists, playlists, shows, episodes, or audiobooks

Albums

Tool	Description
get_album	Get album details by ID
get_album_tracks	Get tracks in an album

Artists

Tool	Description
get_artist	Get artist details by ID
get_artist_albums	Get albums by an artist

Tracks

Tool	Description
get_track	Get track details by ID

Playlists

Tool	Description
get_playlist	Get playlist details
update_playlist	Update playlist name, description, or visibility
get_playlist_items	Get items in a playlist
add_playlist_items	Add tracks/episodes to a playlist
remove_playlist_items	Remove items from a playlist
reorder_playlist_items	Reorder items in a playlist
get_my_playlists	Get the current user's playlists
create_playlist	Create a new playlist

Library

Tool	Description
get_saved_tracks	Get saved tracks
get_saved_albums	Get saved albums
get_saved_shows	Get saved shows
get_saved_episodes	Get saved episodes
get_saved_audiobooks	Get saved audiobooks
save_to_library	Save items to library, or follow artists/users/playlists by URI (max 40/request, auto-chunked)
remove_from_library	Remove items from library, or unfollow artists/users/playlists by URI (max 40/request, auto-chunked)
check_saved_in_library	Check if items are saved, or artists/users/playlists are followed, by URI (max 40/request, auto-chunked)

Player

Tool	Description
get_playback_state	Get current playback state
get_currently_playing	Get the currently playing track
play	Start or resume playback
pause	Pause playback
next_track	Skip to next track
previous_track	Skip to previous track
seek	Seek to position in track
set_repeat	Set repeat mode (track/context/off)
set_volume	Set playback volume
toggle_shuffle	Toggle shuffle mode
transfer_playback	Transfer playback to another device
get_devices	Get available devices
add_to_queue	Add item to playback queue
get_queue	Get the playback queue
get_recently_played	Get recently played tracks

Shows & Podcasts

Tool	Description
get_show	Get show details
get_show_episodes	Get episodes of a show
get_episode	Get a single episode by ID

Audiobooks

Tool	Description
get_audiobook	Get audiobook details
get_audiobook_chapters	Get chapters of an audiobook
get_chapter	Get chapter details

Follow

Tool	Description
get_followed_artists	List artists the user follows (cursor-paginated)

Users

Tool	Description
get_my_profile	Get current user's profile
get_my_top_items	Get top artists or tracks
whoami	Diagnostic — auth status, active device, configured scopes

Resources

Snapshots of user state exposed under the spotify:// URI scheme. MCP clients can include them as context or subscribe for updates without calling a tool.

URI	Description
spotify://me/profile	Profile basics — display name, user ID, account ID
spotify://me/playback	Current playback state (episode-aware)
spotify://me/queue	Currently playing + next-up queue
spotify://me/top/tracks	Top tracks (last ~6 months)
spotify://me/top/artists	Top artists (last ~6 months)

Prompts

Canned workflows MCP clients can offer in their prompt picker. Each one walks the assistant through a multi-step task using the tools above.

Prompt	Description
build_playlist_from_recent	Build a new playlist seeded by recent listening (n_tracks)
weekly_listening_summary	Summarize the past week's listening grouped by artist/album
playlist_from_artists	Build a playlist from a comma-separated list of artists (artists, tracks_per_artist)
library_cleanup	Scan saved tracks and propose cleanup candidates (scan_size)

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup and guidelines.

License

MIT - see LICENSE for details.