Back in 2020 I published a paper analyzing the Spotify collaboration graph. You can read it in on Arxiv for free or behind a fancy paywall at the Journal. Since that publication, several people have asked me how to download the full network of Spotify. The short answer: don’t, it’s gonna take a bunch of work. The long answer. Well, here goes.A broad overviewYou’re going to use the Spotify Web API to collect artist metadata and all their albums and songs, probably using an external tool like S...