# SocialFetch Spotify Artist Lookup

> SocialFetch Spotify Artist Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from api.socialfetch.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.014/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches metadata for a Spotify artist by artist ID or Spotify profile URL.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/spotify/artist
- Price: $0.014/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/socialfetch-spotify-artist-lookup-a857eeca
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_uS_Qff4P0Xygw-5rBo9Ux

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability socialfetch-spotify-artist-lookup-a857eeca
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the Spotify artist profile for Drake — use his Spotify URL https://open.spotify.com/artist/3TVXtAsR1Inumwj472S9r4 and give me his genres, follower count, and popularity score?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to retrieve structured metadata about a specific Spotify artist and you already have their Spotify artist ID or profile URL. Prefer this over general web scraping when you need clean, structured artist data including genre tags, popularity scores, and follower counts from Spotify specifically.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-existent artist ID returns an error or empty result
- Malformed Spotify URL fails validation
- Neither artistId nor url provided causes a missing required parameter error
- Spotify artist profile is private or unavailable
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns 402 or 429 response

## How this service works

Get a Spotify artist by id or profile URL.

## Output

Returns structured artist profile data from Spotify including artist name, genres, follower count, popularity rating, images, and other profile metadata associated with the given artist ID or URL.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "url": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 4096,
       "minLength": 1,
       "description": "Optional Spotify artist URL for the request."
      },
      "artistId": {
       "type": "string",
       "maxLength": 4096,
       "minLength": 1,
       "description": "Optional Spotify artist id for the request."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/socialfetch-spotify-artist-lookup-a857eeca/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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