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Web API •References / Artists / Get Artist

Get Artist

Get Spotify catalog information for a single artist identified by their unique Spotify ID.

Important policy notes

Request

id
string
Required
The Spotify ID of the artist.
Example: 0TnOYISbd1XYRBk9myaseg

Response

An artist

Known external URLs for this artist.
- spotify
  string
  The Spotify URL for the object.
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.

Response sample

{  "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"}