R Observatory: Metrics for spotifyr version 2.2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

spotifyr

2.2.5Package record

R Wrapper for the 'Spotify' Web API

1packages depend

26.9Kdownloads / year

0.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Daniel AntalCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An R wrapper for pulling data from the 'Spotify' Web API https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/ in bulk, or post items on a 'Spotify' user's playlist.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("spotifyr", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("charlie86/spotifyr")

Development version from charlie86/spotifyr. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-spotifyr

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-spotifyr

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-spotifyr

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-28
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-27
OK13 OK2026-07-25

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-24
OK13 OK2026-07-01
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-24
OK13 OK2026-06-18
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-16
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-04-13
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-12
OK14 OK2026-04-02
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-31
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.2.5

READMEYes · 796 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 2.2.5Citation fileNo

Help pages: 84 (16 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 8%1 run in a plain check · 12 never run
Exported functions with examples: 19%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

26.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,400 · ~74/day · ~2.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

75430 days

1.9K90 days

26.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on127 r2u5 autocran1.7K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

sillyplots/spotifyr ↗Account: sillyplots

Moved from charlie86/spotifyr.

383Stars

71Forks

43Open issues

3Open PRs

4Releases

361Commits

21Commit identities

spotifymusic-information-retrieval

361 commits · Last activity 2024-10-24 · +0.8% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 12
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-28 · 3762026-10-13 · 383

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/charlie86/spotifyr on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (1)

pkgdown

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing spotifyr adds 45 packages (26 with compiled code, 24 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (14)

dplyr purrr httr lubridate jsonlite readr rvest stringr tibble janitor rlang magrittr assertthat xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

ggridges spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

taylor

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Daniel Antal

Author, Maintainer since 2.2.1 (2021) · added in 2.2.1

Josiah Parry

Author · added in 2.0.0

Donal Phipps

Author · added in 2.0.0

Charlie Thompson

Author

Tom Wolff

Author · added in 2.0.0

Peter Harrison

Contributor · added in 2.2.5

Stephen Holsenbeck

Contributor · added in 2.2.4

Previously maintained by Charlie Thompson (1.0.0 to 2.1.1).

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-10-24
2.2.5Latest
record
2024-10-24 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-08-21
policy violation On Internet access
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-12-15
2.2.4
record
2022-12-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
get_discography
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-12-11
requires archived package 'genius'
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.2.3
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2021-11-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
get_show, get_show_episodes, get_shows
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-06-17
2.2.1
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2021-06-17 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
get_album_data, is_uri, pitch_class_lookup, verify_result

added 8 exports
%>%, get_categories, get_my_saved_albums, get_my_saved_tracks, get_recommendations_all, remove_tracks_from_playlist, tidy, validate_parameters
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-05-03
requires archived package 'genius'

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R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.1.1
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2019-07-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_playlist_audio_features
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
2.1.0
record
2019-03-12 · diff ↗ ·
removed 8 exports
add_genius, gen_album_url, gen_song_url, genius_album, genius_lyrics, genius_tracklist, genius_url, prep_info

added 1 export
get_user_audio_features
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2019-03-06
2.0.0
record
2019-03-06 · diff ↗ ·
removed 5 exports
get_album_popularity, get_track_popularity, get_user_audio_features, get_user_playlist_count, parse_playlist_list_to_df

added 60 exports
add_genius, add_tracks_to_playlist, change_playlist_details, check_me_following, check_users_following, create_playlist, dedupe_album_names, follow_artists_or_users, follow_playlist, gen_album_url, gen_song_url, genius_album, genius_lyrics, genius_tracklist, genius_url, get_album, get_album_data, get_artist, get_artist_albums, get_artist_top_tracks, get_category, get_category_playlists, get_discography, get_featured_playlists, get_genre_artists, get_label_artists, get_my_current_playback, get_my_currently_playing, get_my_devices, get_my_followed_artists and 30 more
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2019-02-24
issues were not corrected despite reminders Has LICENSE with invalid COPYRIGHT HOLDER
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.0.0
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2017-11-17
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-17
Total releases: 8 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 269 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("spotifyr")

Format

Antal, D., Harrison, P., Holsenbeck, S., Parry, J., Phipps, D., Thompson, C., & Wolff, T. (2024). spotifyr: R Wrapper for the 'Spotify' Web API (Version 2.2.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.spotifyr

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for spotifyr version 2.2.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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