# Get artist stats (v1)

Returns an artist's monthly listeners, followers, top listener cities, top tracks with play counts, latest and popular releases, related artists, biography and social links. `data` is null when the artist does not exist.

- Platform: Spotify
- Request: `GET https://api.toolzerhub.com/v1/spotify/artist`
- Auth: `x-api-key` header
- Cost: 1 credit per successful request. Failed requests are not billed.
- Page: https://docs.toolzerhub.com/reference/spotify/artist/get-spotify-artist

| Parameter | In | Required | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `artist_id_or_url` | query | yes | string | The artist's open.spotify.com link, its spotify:artist: URI, or its 22-character ID (the id in a search result), such as 0gxyHStUsqpMadRV0Di1Qt. |

## Example request

```bash
curl "https://api.toolzerhub.com/v1/spotify/artist?artist_id_or_url=<artist_id_or_url>" \
  -H "x-api-key: $TOOLZERHUB_API_KEY"
```

Success responses are wrapped as `{ "data": ... }`. Errors return `{ "error": { "code", "status", "message", "retryable", "details" } }`. See https://docs.toolzerhub.com/docs/responses-and-errors.