topic Re: Data API - Qlik Sense - Spotify Data in Integration, Extension & APIs

Data API - Qlik Sense - Spotify Data

jerryr125 — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 22:28:19 GMT

Hi - I am in search of a good example of using Qlik Sense SAAS and connecting to Spotify data.

Has anyone ever connected to Spotify data and has an example ? Basically I am looking for top artist data (or top songs) ?

Thanks - jerry

Re: Data API - Qlik Sense - Spotify Data

AC4 — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 23:00:03 GMT

Here's a couple examples I found.

https://adventuresinqlik.com/2017/11/12/spotify-rest-qlik/

Using billboard charts but its a cool example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D3eCqmD4xo

Re: Data API - Qlik Sense - Spotify Data

jerryr125 — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 08:11:01 GMT

Thanks for sharing - appreciate it !

I did come across some data in Kaggle :

https://www.kaggle.com/dhruvildave/spotify-charts-exploratory-data-analysis/data?select=charts.sqlite

Does anyone have any experience in connecting to this data via the Qlik Sense SaaS app ?

Thanks - Jerry

Re: Data API - Qlik Sense - Spotify Data

JulieRosa — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:12:08 GMT

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Re: Data API - Qlik Sense - Spotify Data

jerrygen — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 10:37:23 GMT

Hi Jerry,

Yes it’s possible to pull Spotify data into Qlik Sense SaaS, but you’ll need to go through the Spotify Web API. Spotify has endpoints for top tracks, top artists, playlists, etc., and you can get that data once you register an app in the Spotify developer dashboard and grab your client ID and secret.

In Qlik Sense, you can use the REST connector to hit those Spotify endpoints. The key is setting up the OAuth 2.0 authentication so the API calls are authorized. Once that’s done, you can load the JSON response directly into your app and model it just like any other dataset.

I’ve seen people build dashboards that show “top artists by listening time” or “most played songs over 6 months.” If you just want a starting point, try calling the /me/top/artists or /me/top/tracks endpoints and then format that data in Qlik Sense — it works really well for visualizing music trends.

Regards