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Spotify Playlist Generator MCP Server

Search Spotify and build playlists from an assistant — create, edit, add and remove tracks through the official Web API.

by danisss9 ↗Music & Audio ProductionCommunity

LABSCO SUMMARY

Playlist building as a conversation, once you are through OAuth.

The useful shape is the round trip: search for tracks by description, then create the playlist and add the URIs in the same turn, rather than moving between a search UI and a playlist editor. The friction to plan for is authentication — every tool including search needs the OAuth flow completed, and the token expires after an hour, so a long session will ask you to re-authenticate.

What it is

An MCP server over the official Spotify Web API for finding music and managing playlists. It uses stdio transport and works with any MCP client. Authentication is OAuth 2.0 against your own Spotify app, driven from inside the conversation.

What you get

  • Search and lookup: search_tracks with a query, a result limit between 1 and 50, and an optional ISO country code to filter by market, and get_track_details for one track by ID
  • Playlist creation and editing — create_playlist with a name, description, public flag and collaborative flag; edit_playlist to change any of those afterwards, requiring at least one field to actually change
  • Track management: add_to_playlist with an array of track URIs and an optional insert position, and remove_from_playlist with an optional snapshot ID for version control
  • Reading what you have — list_playlists and get_playlist_tracks, both with limit and offset for paging
  • An authentication flow you drive through the tools themselves: authenticate_spotify returns the authorization URL, then takes the code back, and get_auth_status reports the current state
  • Stated limits: access tokens expire after 1 hour and need refreshing, some tracks are unavailable in some markets, and the OAuth scope determines what operations are permitted

Requirements

A Spotify Developer account and an app created in the Spotify Developer Dashboard, with http://localhost:8888/callback added to its redirect URIs. Two environment variables from that app, SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID and SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET, set either in the client config or system-wide. Node.js 18 or higher; clone, npm install, npm run build, then point your client at the built entry point. Everything, including search, requires completing the OAuth flow first: call the authenticate tool for the URL, approve in the browser, and pass the resulting code back. MIT licensed.

Setup effort

Build from source — git clone https://github.com/danisss9/spotify-playlist-generator-mcp-server

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