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Web API •References / Artists / Get Several Artists

Get Several Artists

Get Spotify catalog information for several artists based on their Spotify IDs.

Important policy notes

Request

  • ids
    string
    Required

    A comma-separated list of the Spotify IDs for the artists. Maximum: 50 IDs.

    Example: ids=2CIMQHirSU0MQqyYHq0eOx,57dN52uHvrHOxijzpIgu3E,1vCWHaC5f2uS3yhpwWbIA6

Response

A set of artists

  • Required

    • Known external URLs for this artist.

    • Information about the followers of the artist.

      • href
        string
        Nullable

        This will always be set to null, as the Web API does not support it at the moment.

      • total
        integer

        The total number of followers.

    • genres
      array of strings

      A list of the genres the artist is associated with. If not yet classified, the array is empty.

      Example: ["Prog rock","Grunge"]
    • href
      string

      A link to the Web API endpoint providing full details of the artist.

    • id
      string

      The Spotify ID for the artist.

    • Images of the artist in various sizes, widest first.

      • url
        string
        Required

        The source URL of the image.

        Example: "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e02ff9ca10b55ce82ae553c8228"
      • height
        integer
        Required
        Nullable

        The image height in pixels.

        Example: 300
      • width
        integer
        Required
        Nullable

        The image width in pixels.

        Example: 300
    • name
      string

      The name of the artist.

    • popularity
      integer

      The popularity of the artist. The value will be between 0 and 100, with 100 being the most popular. The artist's popularity is calculated from the popularity of all the artist's tracks.

    • type
      string

      The object type.

      Allowed values: "artist"
    • uri
      string

      The Spotify URI for the artist.

endpointhttps://api.spotify.com/v1/artistsids

Response sample

{  "artists": [    {      "external_urls": {        "spotify": "string"      },      "followers": {        "href": "string",        "total": 0      },      "genres": ["Prog rock", "Grunge"],      "href": "string",      "id": "string",      "images": [        {          "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e02ff9ca10b55ce82ae553c8228",          "height": 300,          "width": 300        }      ],      "name": "string",      "popularity": 0,      "type": "artist",      "uri": "string"    }  ]}