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Get an Audiobook

Get Spotify catalog information for a single audiobook.
Note: Audiobooks are only available for the US, UK, Ireland, New Zealand and Australia markets.

Important policy notes

Request

  • id
    string
    Required

    The Spotify ID for the audiobook.

    Example value: "7iHfbu1YPACw6oZPAFJtqe"
  • market
    string

    An ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. If a country code is specified, only content that is available in that market will be returned.
    If a valid user access token is specified in the request header, the country associated with the user account will take priority over this parameter.
    Note: If neither market or user country are provided, the content is considered unavailable for the client.
    Users can view the country that is associated with their account in the account settings.

    Example value: "ES"

Response

An Audiobook

  • Required

    The author(s) for the audiobook.

    • name
      string

      The name of the author.

  • available_markets
    array of strings
    Required

    A list of the countries in which the audiobook can be played, identified by their ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code.

  • Required

    The copyright statements of the audiobook.

    • text
      string

      The copyright text for this content.

    • type
      string

      The type of copyright: C = the copyright, P = the sound recording (performance) copyright.

  • description
    string
    Required

    A description of the audiobook. HTML tags are stripped away from this field, use html_description field in case HTML tags are needed.

  • html_description
    string
    Required

    A description of the audiobook. This field may contain HTML tags.

  • edition
    string

    The edition of the audiobook.

    Example value: "Unabridged"
  • explicit
    boolean
    Required

    Whether or not the audiobook has explicit content (true = yes it does; false = no it does not OR unknown).

  • Required

    External URLs for this audiobook.

  • href
    string
    Required

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

  • id
    string
    Required

    The Spotify ID for the audiobook.

  • Required

    The cover art for the audiobook in various sizes, widest first.

    • url
      string
      Required

      The source URL of the image.

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

      The image height in pixels.

      Example value: 300
    • width
      integer
      Required
      Nullable

      The image width in pixels.

      Example value: 300
  • languages
    array of strings
    Required

    A list of the languages used in the audiobook, identified by their ISO 639 code.

  • media_type
    string
    Required

    The media type of the audiobook.

  • name
    string
    Required

    The name of the audiobook.

  • Required

    The narrator(s) for the audiobook.

    • name
      string

      The name of the Narrator.

  • publisher
    string
    Required

    The publisher of the audiobook.

  • type
    string
    Required

    The object type.

    Allowed values: "audiobook"
  • uri
    string
    Required

    The Spotify URI for the audiobook.

  • total_chapters
    integer
    Required

    The number of chapters in this audiobook.

  • Required

    The chapters of the audiobook.

    • href
      string
      Required

      A link to the Web API endpoint returning the full result of the request

      Example value: "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/shows?offset=0&limit=20"
    • limit
      integer
      Required

      The maximum number of items in the response (as set in the query or by default).

      Example value: 20
    • next
      string
      Required
      Nullable

      URL to the next page of items. ( null if none)

      Example value: "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/shows?offset=1&limit=1"
    • offset
      integer
      Required

      The offset of the items returned (as set in the query or by default)

      Example value: 0
    • previous
      string
      Required
      Nullable

      URL to the previous page of items. ( null if none)

      Example value: "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/shows?offset=1&limit=1"
    • total
      integer
      Required

      The total number of items available to return.

      Example value: 4
    • Required