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The original was posted on /r/piracy by /u/Tr0lliee on 2025-05-28 15:00:39+00:00.

The "ACC" file fetched from spotify, that can be downloaded directly from spotify’s cdn.

While Searching through spotify “request” I found out, whenever i click the play button, an event is sent to the spotify server , it then responds with an “fetch” to an mp3 AAC file using your spotify account token. I then tested this with some songs and it seems like the link lasts for atleast 120 min (2 hour) until i have to trigger another event and get the new link for the same song.

With some simple python script, i will be able to scrape & download spotify’s songs soon.

If I do write a good script, i will open source it and put an update here!

I am pretty sure there are better ways and maybe people have already known about this but i was pretty suprised as this is my first time looking through spotify’s network tab - and i’ve already found how to scrape mp3 AAC files. This will also be my first time scraping spotify - as i mostly do for youtube since i thought it would be hard for spotify.

Note: I am a complete beginner when it comes to spotify, if you have some nice tips, please share

Edit: Changed mp3 --> AAC (AAC Is the orginal file you get, my browser did some weird conversion to mp3)

Edit2: Tools like Soggify or zotify use similar concepts to one mentioned in this post