IFTTT + Spotify: every automation music lovers actually need

Spotify is great at deciding what you should listen to next, but a bit less helpful once you want to do something with that afterward. Discover Weekly resets every Monday whether you saved anything from it or not. Similarly, Liked Songs has no way to sort by date or export anywhere. And if you want to share what you're playing, or trigger a playlist based on something else going on in your day, you're stuck doing it by hand.

Here's where IFTTT comes in to play. It connects Spotify to the apps you already use, so when something happens on Spotify, something else happens automatically somewhere else. No code, no developer account, and no Spotify API key required. Just pick a trigger and an action, and IFTTT handles the rest in the background.

In this guide, we'll walk through some of the essential automations users come back to time and time again, as well as offer a full easy to follow guide to getting started with IFTTT. If you'd already like to learn more about our mission, click the button below.

How IFTTT works

Every Applet on IFTTT is built from the same two pieces: a trigger (something that happens) and an action (something that happens in response). Connect your Spotify account once, which takes under two minutes, and you can turn on any pre-built Applet with a single tap, including every one below.

If you'd like to build your own Applet, using our logic-based custom automation builder is super easy. You can select the trigger, add in features like time-based execution or filter code, and set the action. That's the entire mechanic behind everything in this guide, so we won't down the process separately for each automation.

Instead, we'll jump straight into some use cases for IFTTT and Spotify.

Save your Discover Weekly before it disappears

Spotify resets your Discover Weekly playlist every Monday. If you didn't save something you liked before then, it's gone, and most people have lost at least one song this way without ever learning its name.

IFTTT can fix this permanently. Once it's set up, every new song that lands in your Discover Weekly gets copied automatically to a separate archive playlist, so nothing disappears when the week rolls over. You set it up once, and it keeps running in the background for as long as you want it to, no need to remember to check on a Sunday night. IFTTT checks for new songs every 5 minutes if you're on a paid plan, or about once an hour on the free plan, so it stays ahead of the reset either way.

Save Discover Weekly to an archive playlist

Log every song you like to Google Sheets

Spotify's Liked Songs list is useful until you want to do anything with it beyond scrolling and playing songs. There's no way to sort by the date you added something, no export button, and no way to search your history the way you'd search a spreadsheet.

IFTTT can build that spreadsheet for you in the background. Every time you like a new song on Spotify, IFTTT adds a new row with the track name, the artist, and the exact time you added it, simple enough to skim, detailed enough to actually search later when you're trying to remember that one song from three months ago. Over time, that turns into a searchable personal music archive you actually own, not just a list buried inside an app.

Log new liked Spotify songs to Google Sheets

Share what your favorites in Discord without lifting a finger

If you're active in a music-focused Discord server, or you just like letting people know what you're into, manually posting every song you like gets old fast. IFTTT can route your Spotify activity somewhere else automatically, so sharing becomes a background habit instead of a chore you eventually stop doing.

Connect Spotify to Discord, and IFTTT can post a new liked song the moment you save it. One thing worth knowing upfront: IFTTT can't watch what's currently playing in real time, since Spotify doesn't expose a continuous now-playing feed that way. Triggering off a new liked song instead works well for sharing your taste without turning into a spam feed of every track that happens to play in the background while you're cooking or working.

Connect Spotify and Discord

Let the weather decide what you listen to

This one's less about solving a problem and more about having fun with what IFTTT can do across services that have nothing to do with each other by default.

Connect a weather trigger to Spotify, and IFTTT can check the day's forecast and save a track that matches it (something moody for rain, something upbeat for sun) straight to your library, no input from you required once it's set up. It's a small thing, but it's the kind of automation that's genuinely fun to show people, and it's a good example of what's possible once Spotify is connected to services that have nothing to do with music at all.

Play a song based on today's weather

Start your morning with the right music

Reaching for your phone to pick a playlist is a small thing, but it's one more decision standing between you and actually getting out of bed. IFTTT can start a specific Spotify playlist at a scheduled time each morning, so your music is already playing before you've had to think about it.

If you own a smart alarm, a connected bed, or smart home devices tied to your morning routine, IFTTT can trigger Spotify off those instead of a fixed time, so your playlist starts the moment your alarm actually goes off rather than whenever you happened to set the clock for. It pairs naturally with anything else you already automate in the morning, lights, coffee makers, thermostats, since it's just one more action added to a routine you've likely already started building.

Start a Spotify playlist at a scheduled time

Get notified when a new album or podcast drops

Spotify doesn't push a notification every time an artist you follow releases something new, and if you subscribe to more than a couple of podcasts, it's easy to miss an episode the day it actually drops.

For podcasts specifically, IFTTT can watch a show you follow and send you a notification the moment a new episode is published, so you find out when it happens instead of whenever you next happen to open the app and scroll past it. You can set this up separately for each show you don't want to miss, so your notifications stay specific to what you actually listen to rather than everything Spotify thinks you might like.

Get notified about new podcast episodes

All Spotify Applets on IFTTT

Spotify is one of the most connected services on IFTTT, with Applets covering everything from the ones above to syncing with smart lights, logging listening history, and connecting to dozens of other music and productivity apps.

Browse the full list on the Spotify integrations page, or go deeper with a few related guides: how to see your Spotify Wrapped early, how to listen to Spotify with friends on Discord, or more ways to automate Spotify with IFTTT.

The bottom line

Spotify already knows what you like. IFTTT is what makes that useful outside the app itself, archived, logged, shared, or tied to something else in your day entirely. None of the automations above take more than a couple of minutes to set up, and every one of them keeps running on its own once it's turned on.