Spotify MCP server for checking what's playing, finding tracks, listing playlists, and pulling listener context.

What it can do

• currently-playing: Shows the track on your active player and can include device info.
• search-tracks: Finds tracks by search text and returns the best matches.
• list-playlists: Lists your Spotify playlists with names and track counts.

Setup

Set SPOTIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN to a Spotify user access token.

Get it from Spotify's official pages:

• Dashboard: https://developer.spotify.com/dashboard
• Auth guide: https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/tutorials/code-flow

Use a user token with the scopes you need, like user-read-currently-playing, user-read-playback-state, playlist-read-private, playlist-read-collaborative, and user-read-email.

You only need SPOTIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN. No other env vars are required.

Claude Desktop config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "spotify": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@universal-mcp-toolkit/server-spotify@latest"],
      "env": {
        "SPOTIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your_spotify_access_token"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "spotify": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@universal-mcp-toolkit/server-spotify@latest"],
      "env": {
        "SPOTIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your_spotify_access_token"
      }
    }
  }
}

Quick example

"Check what's playing right now. Then search Spotify for 5 dreamy synth-pop tracks like M83 or CHVRCHES, and show my first 10 playlists."