A free, open-source export tool for artists — no account, no lock-in.
Most conversations about owning your catalog focus on what happens when a platform disappears. This one's about something simpler: just having your own copy of what's already live, in your own hands, today — not waiting for a crisis to make you wish you had it.
That's what the Spotify Discography Exporter does. Paste your Spotify artist link, get back a spreadsheet with every title, every URL, every ISRC — the exact metadata a distributor, a sync licensing opportunity, or your own records might ask for someday, sitting in a file you own rather than a page you'd have to screenshot.
This is specifically for an artist's own released catalog — the official releases tied to a Spotify Artist page — not a personal listening library or a liked-songs playlist. If it's something you put out, it shows up: title, direct URL, and ISRC code, the identifier that follows a recording everywhere it's distributed. That last one matters more than it sounds; it's the thing that ties a track to royalty reporting no matter which platform or distributor is handling it at a given moment.
Looking to move something else? If it's your own liked songs or playlists you want out, that's a genuinely different job — TuneMyMusic or Soundiiz are built specifically for that, and do it well. This tool is for your own discography specifically.
There's a real two-minute step before the first export — creating a free Spotify developer app to get a Client ID and Secret, since that's what Spotify's own API requires to authorize a request. It's a one-time thing: create the app once on Spotify's own developer dashboard, save the two values, and every export after that is just paste and go.
This isn't a lead-generation tool with a paywall a few exports in. It's free because the actual argument behind Artisanal Indie only holds up if the tools back it up — asking artists to trust that their catalog data should be portable, then charging them to access their own metadata, would be a pretty thin position to stand on. It's open source for the same reason: the code doing the pulling is inspectable, not a black box asking for trust it hasn't earned.