Instantly add Spotify songs from iMessage links to your playlist–effortlessly and in the background.

Do your friends send you a lot of Spotify links through iMessage? Do you wish you could have those songs sent to a playlist automatically, so that you can listen to all of them later? If so, iMessage2Spotify is for you.

[⚠️ REQUIRED!] Installation Instructions

NOTE: This Shortcut requires a one-time initial setup to authorize adding songs to your Spotify account. It will not work if you do not set it up first.

• Allow the shortcut to add Playlists to your Spotify account by tapping on iMessage2Spotify in your Shortcuts app after you install it.
• Add two Personal Automations that "Run Immediately" on a received message: one for messages containing `spotify.link` and another for messages containing `open.spotify.com/track`
• Your Personal Automation must be configured to use the incoming message as input to the Shortcut. It should look like this.
  

After setup, for every song link that you receive via iMessage, the shortcut will add a song to a iMessage2Spotify playlist in your Spotify.

Having problems?

Possible troubleshooting steps:

• Try deleting the imessage2spotify.json file in your `iCloud Drive/Shortcuts/` folder to reset everything, and then run iMessage2Spotify again.

• Try logging out and back into Spotify Web via Safari if you have issues authorizing during setup.

• If you're on iOS 16+, your Personal Automation must be configured to use the incoming message as input to the Shortcut. It should look like this.

• If it used to trigger on messages, but doesn't anymore, it could be because Spotify changed their share links in March 2023. Add a Personal Automation for messages containing `spotify.link`. See this GitHub issue for more details.

Still having issues? Post an issue on GitHub and tag @iannotian.

Uninstall

If you wish to revoke iMessage2Spotify's playlist read/write access (which will disable this shortcut's functionality), go to https://www.spotify.com/us/account/apps/ and press Remove Access.

Also, delete the shortcut and the file at `Files/iCloud Drive/Shortcuts/imessage2spotify.json`.

Source code on GitHub