Web API •References / Audiobooks / Get an Audiobook

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.
- spotify
  string
  The Spotify URL for the object.
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