Spotify support

Paste a Spotify playlist, album or track into !play or the clip page’s add box and djsnake plays it, with no Spotify account and no API key.

!play https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4rT7xKq2LmNb9VcZ0aYdEw

How it works

1. The bot reads the track list (title, artists, duration) from the link. It never plays or downloads anything from Spotify.
2. It searches YouTube for each track and scores the results: the duration must be close, and the title and artist must match.
3. Official music videos come first (the clip page shows the video), then official audio and ”- Topic” uploads. Live, cover, remix, karaoke, nightcore and sped-up versions are skipped unless the Spotify title says so.
4. Tracks load in the background like a YouTube playlist, up to MAX_PLAYLIST_SIZE. Songs with no good match are skipped and counted in the status message, for example “28/30 tracks loaded (2 not found on YouTube)”.

Once queued, the tracks are ordinary YouTube tracks.

Accepted links

open.spotify.com addresses ending in /playlist/, /album/ or /track/ (with optional intl-xx and embed path parts), and spotify:playlist:... style URIs. Short spotify.link links are refused: open them and copy the open.spotify.com address.

Limits

• Without credentials, the list comes from Spotify’s public embed page, which shows at most 100 tracks of a playlist or album.
• Private playlists cannot be read, with or without credentials.
• The match can occasionally be the wrong version of a song.

Longer playlists with the Web API

For lists longer than 100 tracks, create an app in the Spotify developer dashboard and set both variables in .env:

SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID=your_client_id
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret

The bot then uses the Spotify Web API (client credentials flow). If the API refuses a playlist (Spotify hides its own editorial playlists from new apps), it falls back to the embed page. The number of tracks queued is still capped by MAX_PLAYLIST_SIZE.

Spotify errors

Message cause	What it means
Not found	The playlist is private or does not exist.
Empty	The link has no tracks.
Unreadable	Spotify is unreachable or changed its page. Try again later.

djsnake is not affiliated with or endorsed by Spotify.