Every song, playlist, album, artist, and podcast on Spotify has a shareable web address. Finding it takes three taps, but there are several different formats, and the one you need depends on what you’re doing with it.
Here’s how to get each type, on every platform, plus what to do when a link doesn’t work for the person you sent it to.
The quick version
Mobile: tap the three dots next to whatever you want to share, choose Share, then Copy link.
Desktop: right-click the item, hover Share, click Copy link to playlist (or song, album, artist).
Web player: same as desktop — right-click, Share, Copy link.
That’s the whole answer for most people. The rest of this covers the variations.
Getting a playlist link
On mobile, open the playlist, tap the three dots under the title, and select Share. You’ll see a row of app icons for direct sharing plus a Copy link option at the end. Copy link puts the URL on your clipboard.
You can also reach it without opening the playlist. Find it in Your Library, press and hold, and the same share menu appears.
On desktop, right-click the playlist in the left sidebar, or click the three dots under the playlist title. Hover over Share and choose Copy link to playlist.
There’s a shortcut worth knowing: hold Alt on Windows or Option on Mac while the Share menu is open, and Copy link changes to Copy Spotify URI. More on URIs below.
A playlist link looks like this:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5MThe string after /playlist/ is the playlist ID. It’s permanent and doesn’t change when you rename the playlist or edit its contents.
Getting a song link
Same pattern. On mobile, tap the three dots beside the track, then Share, then Copy link. On desktop, right-click the track in any list, then Share, then Copy Song Link.
You can also copy a link to the currently playing track from the Now Playing bar — tap or right-click it and the share options appear there.
A track link looks like:
https://open.spotify.com/track/4cOdK2wGLETKBW3PvgPWqTCopying multiple songs at once on desktop: select several tracks with Ctrl-click or Shift-click, then right-click and choose Copy Song Links. You get all of them at once, one per line. Handy for sending someone a batch without building a playlist.
Albums, artists, podcasts, and profiles
The same three-dot-then-Share pattern works everywhere in Spotify. Each produces a URL with the type in the path:
open.spotify.com/album/…open.spotify.com/artist/…open.spotify.com/show/…for a podcastopen.spotify.com/episode/…for a single episodeopen.spotify.com/user/…for a profile
Your own profile link: tap your profile icon, then the three dots, then Share, then Copy link to profile. This is the one to use if you want people to find and follow all your public playlists rather than just one.
Podcast episodes support timestamps. When sharing an episode from mobile, you’ll see an option to start at the current position. The link carries a ?t= parameter with the time in seconds, so the recipient lands at that exact moment rather than the start. Useful for pointing someone at a specific bit of a two-hour episode.
Links versus URIs
Two formats exist and they do different jobs.
A URL starts with https://open.spotify.com/. It works everywhere — in a browser, in a message, on a website. If a recipient has the Spotify app installed, it opens there; if not, it opens the web player with a prompt to install. This is what you want 95% of the time.
A URI looks like spotify:playlist:37i9dQZF1DXcBWIGoYBM5M. It’s an internal identifier that only works if the Spotify app is already installed, and pasting it into a browser generally does nothing useful. Its purpose is technical: pasting into Spotify’s own search bar to jump straight to an item, or referencing tracks in code and integrations.
To get a URI, hold Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) while the Share menu is open on desktop.
The ID at the end is identical in both formats. You can convert between them by hand once you see the pattern.
Embed codes for websites
If you’re putting music on a web page rather than sending it to a person, use the embed code instead of a plain link.
On desktop, right-click the item, hover Share, and choose Embed. You get an iframe you can paste into any HTML page, producing a playable Spotify widget. Visitors hear 30-second previews if they’re not logged in, and full tracks if they are.
The embed player has size options, and there’s a compact variant that works better in sidebars and narrow columns. For a blog post about an album or a playlist, this converts far better than a link that navigates people away from the page.
Spotify Codes
Spotify generates a scannable code for every item, which is the small barcode-like graphic you sometimes see on posters and merchandise.
Open the share menu on mobile and you’ll see the code displayed above the sharing options. It can be saved as an image and printed. Anyone can scan it using the camera icon in Spotify’s search bar.
Genuinely useful for physical contexts — a poster, a business card, a wedding invitation pointing at the reception playlist. Less useful online, where a link is simpler.
Getting links in bulk
If you need URLs for a whole playlist rather than one track at a time, the share menu isn’t the tool.
Exportify reads your playlists through Spotify’s official API and gives you a CSV with a column of track URIs alongside artist, album, duration, and the date each track was added. Free, browser-based, read-only. It’s the fastest route to a spreadsheet of links, and it’s the same tool worth using if you’re backing up your library for any other reason.
Spotify’s Web API is the option if you’re building something. The developer dashboard issues credentials, and endpoints return track, playlist, and album data as JSON including both URLs and URIs. Rate-limited but free for personal projects.
Desktop multi-select, covered above, handles the middle ground of a few dozen tracks.
Cross-platform links
A Spotify link only works for people on Spotify. Send one to someone on Apple Music and they hit a wall.
Services like Songlink and Odesli solve this: paste a Spotify URL and get back a single landing page that detects the visitor’s platform and offers the same track on Apple Music, YouTube Music, Tidal, Deezer, and others. Free for basic use.
Worth doing for anything public-facing — a newsletter, a social post, a website — where you don’t know what your audience uses. For a message to one friend whose platform you know, it’s unnecessary.
If you’re the one receiving links you can’t use, the same principle works in reverse, and moving whole playlists between services is straightforward now that most platforms have built-in importers.
Why your link might not work for someone
A few common failures, with fixes.
The playlist is private. Private playlists produce valid-looking links that only you can open. To fix: open the playlist, tap the three dots, and check the visibility setting. On mobile it’s usually “Add to profile” or a public toggle; on desktop it’s “Make public.” A playlist that isn’t on your profile is not necessarily private, but the two settings are easy to confuse.
The song isn’t licensed in their country. Catalogs differ by region. A track that plays fine for you may show as unavailable to someone abroad, and there’s nothing to fix on your end.
The track was pulled from the catalog. Licensing deals expire. A link to a removed track resolves to a page saying it’s unavailable, and it won’t come back unless the rights holder returns it.
They’re not logged in. Anonymous visitors on the web player get 30-second previews rather than full tracks. Not broken, just limited. A free account is enough to hear full songs on desktop web.
The link got mangled. Some messaging apps truncate long URLs or add tracking parameters. If a link looks wrong, everything from ?si= onwards can be deleted safely — that’s a share-source tracking parameter, not part of the address.
What that ?si= bit actually is
Copy any Spotify link and you’ll notice it has a long string appended after a question mark.
That’s a share identifier. Spotify uses it to attribute where traffic came from, which feeds the analytics artists see in Spotify for Artists. It doesn’t identify you personally to the recipient, and the link works identically with or without it.
Delete it if you want a cleaner URL. Keep it if you’re an artist or label and want your share campaigns tracked properly.
Some links also carry ?context= or ?nd= parameters depending on where you copied from. All of these are optional; the core open.spotify.com/type/ID portion is the whole address.
Building a link by hand
If you have an ID from somewhere — an API response, a spreadsheet, a URI — you can construct the URL yourself:
https://open.spotify.com/[type]/[id]Where [type] is track, album, artist, playlist, show, episode, or user.
So spotify:track:4cOdK2wGLETKBW3PvgPWqT becomes https://open.spotify.com/track/4cOdK2wGLETKBW3PvgPWqT. Same ID, different wrapper.
This is occasionally useful when someone sends you a URI you can’t open, or when you’re working from exported data.
Sharing without a link at all
Two alternatives worth knowing.
Collaborative playlists let others add tracks rather than just listen. Open the playlist, tap the three dots, and enable the collaborative option. The link then invites people to contribute. Note that collaborative status is a Spotify feature and doesn’t survive if anyone moves to another service.
Jam creates a shared listening session where multiple people control the queue in real time. Start one from the speaker icon while playing something. Everyone needs Spotify, and the host needs Premium — one of the differences between free and Premium that isn’t obvious until you try to use it.
Neither replaces a link, but for the specific situations they cover, both work better.
Quick reference
| What you want | Where to click |
|---|---|
| Playlist link | Three dots under title → Share → Copy link |
| Song link | Three dots beside track → Share → Copy link |
| Album or artist link | Three dots on the page → Share → Copy link |
| Your profile link | Profile icon → three dots → Share → Copy link |
| Podcast episode with timestamp | Share while playing → enable start-at-time |
| Spotify URI | Hold Alt/Option in the Share menu (desktop) |
| Embed code | Right-click → Share → Embed (desktop) |
| Spotify Code image | Share menu on mobile, shown above the options |
| Every link in a playlist | Exportify, or multi-select on desktop |
The pattern is consistent across the entire app: find the three dots, choose Share, choose Copy link. Once that’s muscle memory, everything else here is a variation on it.