Past snapshot_id for shared playlist?

[tycoonwiz]

Some context: At the beginning of this year, I started a weekly tradition where friends and I add one song to a shared playlist that we think the group should hear. At the end of the week, I move the songs to a different playlist to archive them, and remove the songs in the shared playlist. Then each person adds a new song for the week to the original shared playlist.

It's been a great way to share music with each other!

I recently got the idea to run some analytics on the shared playlist at the user level (e.g., this person never missed a week, this person added the most punk genre songs, this person added the longest song, etc).

From a development perspective, the first challenge seems to be finding each week's version of the shared playlist. I've been reviewing the Spotify API documentation, and the snapshot_id variable seems like a good start, but is there any way to pull past snapshot IDs from a playlist?

Thank you for reading this far! I have minimal developer experience, but this seemed like a fun project to take on! Very thankful for any and all guidance on the best way to build this.

[fuent]

Ever figure this out? I'm in the same boat and would like to know if this is possible!

[tycoonwiz]

I ended up using a workaround! I had previously used IFTTT to add songs added to the playlist to a Google Sheet, along with other data from Spotify (track ID, artist name, album, etc). IFTTT also added the current playlist name to each song entry. I updated the playlist name manually each week within the Spotify UI, so it was easy to see each weekly iteration of the playlist in Google Sheets. Below is a screenshot showing how it looks in Google Sheets: 

I was then able to run my analytics within Google Sheets. I hosted a Discover Friends Unwrapped livestream on Twitch to present the data back to my friends–it was super fun! Happy to send you the recording of that in a DM if you'd like to see it. 

Would love to learn more about what you're working on, and if you ever found a solution!