How to find your Spotify user ID, artist ID and track ID (and what each one is for)

A pitch form asks for 'your artist URI'. A presave tool wants 'the track ID'. A curator writes 'send me your Spotify user ID'. They are the same kind of data: the string of letters and numbers at the end of every Spotify link. Here is where each one lives, how to copy it and what it is for; if you just want the answer, paste the link into our Spotify ID finder.

What a Spotify ID is

Every track, album, artist, playlist, podcast or episode on Spotify has a unique identifier. Spotify's developer documentation, checked in November 2026, defines it as the base-62 identifier (letters and digits) found at the end of the URI; it sets no fixed length, though the example it publishes is 22 characters long: 6rqhFgbbKwnb9MLmUQDhG6. The type is not inside the ID: it comes from the word next to it.

It comes in two interchangeable formats: the link open.spotify.com/track/6rqhFgbbKwnb9MLmUQDhG6 and the URI spotify:track:6rqhFgbbKwnb9MLmUQDhG6. Whatever follows the question mark in a shared link (?si=…) is not part of the ID and can be deleted.

The user ID is a different thing: your account's username, which on some accounts is a word and on others a long string of letters and numbers. According to Spotify's help pages, checked in November 2026, it identifies you on Spotify and is not needed to log in; the display name replaces it on your profile, in the app and on playlists, and cannot be used to log in either.

Where to find your Spotify user ID, artist ID and track ID

The path is the same for tracks, albums, artists and playlists, on desktop and on mobile.

• Desktop (app or web player): right-click the name or open the three dots, Share, Copy link. With the menu open, hold Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) and the option turns into Copy Spotify URI.
• Mobile: three dots, Share, Copy link, then read what follows the last slash. If what you copied is a short link without open.spotify.com, open it in a browser and copy the address it lands on.
• Your user ID: on your profile, three dots, Share, Copy link to profile; it is whatever follows /user/. It also appears as your username on your account page at spotify.com.
• Your artist ID: same steps from your artist profile. If your music is not live yet, your label or distributor has it: according to Spotify for Artists help, they receive it when they first deliver your music.

What each one is for

Every process asks for a different ID; send the wrong one and the form does not fail: it just points at something else.

• Artist ID: claiming your profile on Spotify for Artists, getting your distributor to deliver every release to the right profile instead of creating a duplicate, and presave and smart-link tools.
• Track or album ID: pitches to independent curators, smart links, sync submission forms, and any tool that reads a song's metrics. The editorial pitch inside Spotify for Artists does not ask for it: the release shows up there once the distributor delivers it.
• Playlist ID: tools that track which lists your song enters and leaves.
• User ID: shared playlists and apps that read your playlists or profile with your permission. Spotify invites collaborators by link, but many outside apps identify you by this ID, and so does its API.
• Not Spotify IDs: the ISRC (recording) and the UPC (release), which your distributor assigns. If you have one of those codes and need the song with its ID, use find a song by UPC or ISRC and read what UPC and ISRC are.

What is public and what is not

Everything inside a Spotify link is public by design: anyone who opens your profile sees your user ID in the address bar. An ID gives access to nothing: it cannot log into the account, it does not reveal your email or payment method, and it cannot post anything in your name. What an app can do with your account depends on the permissions you accept when you connect it.

If a website asks for your Spotify password 'to verify your ID', it is a scam: an ID is verified by opening the link.

How to use our ID finder

The Spotify ID finder reads the link for you: paste an open.spotify.com link or a URI and it returns the type (track, album, artist, playlist, user, podcast or episode), the clean ID, the URI ready to paste, and the title when Spotify publishes it; when it does not, the type and the ID.

Before sending a pitch, check that the type says 'track' and not 'album' or 'playlist': it is the most common mistake we see in our clients' forms. If what you need is someone to run the whole release, that is what we do in music marketing.

What to do this week

A short list, in order:

• Save your three IDs (user, artist and latest track) with link and URI in a document shared with your team, without the ?si=….
• Search your name on Spotify and count how many profiles come up. If there are two, the fix goes through the distributor: send them your artist URI and ask them to attach it to your account.
• If you do not have Spotify for Artists yet, request access with your profile link. According to its help, checked in November 2026, the review is manual and can take a few days; if the profile is already claimed, only your team's admin can invite you. Full guide: Spotify for Artists: how to claim your profile.
• Keep the track's link, ID and URI at hand for pitch forms; what to expect from them: playlist pitching in 2026.