Spotify MCP server

spotify-mcp

mcp-name: io.github.jamiew/spotify-mcp

A local Python MCP server for searching Spotify, controlling playback, and managing playlists and Liked Songs from your MCP client. Runs over stdio with your Spotify account. This is a supported fork of varunneal/spotify-mcp.

The TypeScript edition supports local and hosted use, with a different MCP surface.

Setup

Requires Python 3.12+, uv, and Spotify Premium for playback.

1. Create an app in the Spotify developer dashboard.
2. Register http://127.0.0.1:8888 as its redirect URI, exactly as written.
3. Copy the app's Client ID and Client Secret into your MCP client's configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "spotify": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["spotify-mcp-jamiew"],
      "env": {
        "SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID": "your_client_id",
        "SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET": "your_client_secret",
        "SPOTIFY_REDIRECT_URI": "http://127.0.0.1:8888"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart the client. On first use, a browser opens for Spotify authorization; the token is cached locally. Keep the client secret and token cache private. Playback needs an available Spotify Connect device, so open Spotify on the device you want to control.

Client-specific setup: Claude Desktop, Claude Code, and Codex. Use the same command and environment variables in each client's format.

Run from source

The package command above uses the published package, which may lag this README's source changes. To run the current checkout:

git clone https://github.com/jamiew/spotify-mcp.git
cd spotify-mcp
uv sync

In the config above, change command to uv and args to ["--directory", "/absolute/path/to/spotify-mcp", "run", "spotify-mcp"]. Keep the same environment variables. Without cloning, use uvx --from git+https://github.com/jamiew/spotify-mcp.git spotify-mcp.

Reauthorization: artist-follow checks need user-follow-read. Existing grants do not receive new scopes automatically. Restart and complete Spotify authorization when prompted; if access is still denied, review the app's grant in your Spotify account and reauthorize. Do not automatically delete the auth cache.

Features

28 tools, six resources (user, playback, track, playlist, artist, album), and five prompts. Tools provide typed outputs and behavior annotations; large playlist reads report progress. Playlist removal asks for confirmation where supported, reordering uses snapshot guards, and playback control attempts best-effort read-after-write confirmation, not guaranteed success.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.