Spotify MCP Server

spotify-mcp MCP server

MCP project to connect Claude with Spotify. Built on top of spotipy-dev's API.

Features

Start, pause, and skip playback
Search for tracks/albums/artists/playlists
Get info about a track/album/artist/playlist
Manage the Spotify queue
Manage, create, and update playlists

Demo

Make sure to turn on audio

Configuration

Getting Spotify API Keys

Create an account on developer.spotify.com. Navigate to the dashboard. Create an app with redirect_uri as http://127.0.0.1:8080/callback. You can choose any port you want but you must use http and an explicit loopback address (IPv4 or IPv6).

See here for more info/troubleshooting. You may have to restart your MCP environment (e.g. Claude Desktop) once or twice before it works.

Run this project locally

This project is not yet set up for ephemeral environments (e.g. uvx usage). Run this project locally by cloning this repo

git clone https://github.com/varunneal/spotify-mcp.git

Add this tool as a mcp server.

Claude Desktop on MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Claude Desktop on Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

"spotify": {
    "command": "uv",
    "args": [
      "--directory",
      "/path/to/spotify_mcp",
      "run",
      "spotify-mcp"
    ],
    "env": {
      "SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID": YOUR_CLIENT_ID,
      "SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET": YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET,
      "SPOTIFY_REDIRECT_URI": "http://127.0.0.1:8080/callback"
    }
  }

Troubleshooting

Please open an issue if you can't get this MCP working. Here are some tips:

Make sure uv is updated. I recommend version >=0.54.
Make sure claude has execution permisisons for the project: chmod -R 755.
Ensure you have Spotify premium (needed for running developer API).

This MCP will emit logs to std err (as specified in the MCP) spec. On Mac the Claude Desktop app should emit these logs to ~/Library/Logs/Claude. On other platforms you can find logs here.

You can launch the MCP Inspector via npm with this command:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv --directory /path/to/spotify_mcp run spotify-mcp

Upon launching, the Inspector will display a URL that you can access in your browser to begin debugging.

TODO

Unfortunately, a bunch of cool features have now been deprecated from the Spotify API. Most new features will be relatively minor or for the health of the project:

tests.
adding API support for managing playlists.
adding API support for paginated search results/playlists/albums.

PRs appreciated! Thanks to @jamiew, @davidpadbury, @manncodes, @hyuma7, @aanurraj, and others for contributions.

Deployment

(todo)

Building and Publishing

To prepare the package for distribution:

Sync dependencies and update lockfile:

uv sync

Build package distributions:

uv build

This will create source and wheel distributions in the dist/ directory.

Publish to PyPI:

uv publish

Note: You'll need to set PyPI credentials via environment variables or command flags:

Token: --token or UV_PUBLISH_TOKEN
Or username/password: --username/UV_PUBLISH_USERNAME and --password/UV_PUBLISH_PASSWORD

You must be authenticated.

security – no known vulnerabilities

license - not found

quality - confirmed to work

local-only server

The server can only run on the client's local machine because it depends on local resources.

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Connects Claude with Spotify, allowing users to control playback, search for music, get track/artist information, and manage the queue via the Spotify API.

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