Create Playlist
Create a playlist for a Spotify user. (The playlist will be empty until you add tracks.) Each user is generally limited to a maximum of 11000 playlists.
Authorization
oauth_2_0 playlist-modify-public, playlist-modify-privateSpotify supports OAuth 2.0 for authenticating all API requests.
In: header
Scope: playlist-modify-public, playlist-modify-private
Path Parameters
The user's Spotify user ID.
Request Body
application/json
The name for the new playlist, for example "Your Coolest Playlist". This name does not need to be unique; a user may have several playlists with the same name.
Defaults to true. If true the playlist will be public, if false it will be private. To be able to create private playlists, the user must have granted the playlist-modify-private scope
Defaults to false. If true the playlist will be collaborative. Note: to create a collaborative playlist you must also set public to false. To create collaborative playlists you must have granted playlist-modify-private and playlist-modify-public scopes.
value for playlist description as displayed in Spotify Clients and in the Web API.
Response Body
application/json
application/json
application/json
application/json
curl -X POST "https://example.com/users/smedjan/playlists" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "name": "New Playlist", "description": "New playlist description", "public": false }'{ "collaborative": true, "description": "string", "external_urls": { "spotify": "string" }, "followers": { "href": "string", "total": 0 }, "href": "string", "id": "string", "images": [ { "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e02ff9ca10b55ce82ae553c8228\n", "height": 300, "width": 300 } ], "name": "string", "owner": { "external_urls": { "spotify": "string" }, "followers": { "href": "string", "total": 0 }, "href": "string", "id": "string", "type": "user", "uri": "string", "display_name": "string" }, "public": true, "snapshot_id": "string", "tracks": { "href": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/shows?offset=0&limit=20\n", "limit": 20, "next": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/shows?offset=1&limit=1", "offset": 0, "previous": "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/shows?offset=1&limit=1", "total": 4, "items": [ { "added_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z", "added_by": { "external_urls": { "spotify": "string" }, "followers": { "href": "string", "total": 0 }, "href": "string", "id": "string", "type": "user", "uri": "string" }, "is_local": true, "track": { "album": { "album_type": "compilation", "total_tracks": 9, "available_markets": [ "CA", "BR", "IT" ], "external_urls": { "spotify": "string" }, "href": "string", "id": "2up3OPMp9Tb4dAKM2erWXQ", "images": [ { "url": "https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d00001e02ff9ca10b55ce82ae553c8228\n", "height": 300, "width": 300 } ], "name": "string", "release_date": "1981-12", "release_date_precision": "year", "restrictions": { "reason": "market" }, "type": "album", "uri": "spotify:album:2up3OPMp9Tb4dAKM2erWXQ", "artists": [ { "external_urls": { "spotify": "string" }, "href": "string", "id": "string", "name": "string", "type": "artist", "uri": "string" } ] }, "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\n", "height": 300, "width": 300 } ], "name": "string", "popularity": 0, "type": "artist", "uri": "string" } ], "available_markets": [ "string" ], "disc_number": 0, "duration_ms": 0, "explicit": true, "external_ids": { "isrc": "string", "ean": "string", "upc": "string" }, "external_urls": { "spotify": "string" }, "href": "string", "id": "string", "is_playable": true, "linked_from": { "external_urls": { "spotify": "string" }, "href": "string", "id": "string", "type": "string", "uri": "string" }, "restrictions": { "reason": "string" }, "name": "string", "popularity": 0, "preview_url": "string", "track_number": 0, "type": "track", "uri": "string", "is_local": true } } ] }, "type": "string", "uri": "string"}