Random Spotify User Search

December 19, 2024

I like to listen to random playlists as way to get a flavor of strangers’ personalities and encounter new music and genre.

I haven’t found a way to get a random playlist, but here’s a method for finding a random user.

Spotify users can be identified with a 25 character string of lowercase English letters and the digits 0-9 (base 36?). If you search for short string of characters, it will search for user identifiers that start with string.

A five character prefix usually returns between one and five users, and then you can choose a user and see if they have playlists.

App friendly: <a href=“https://play.spotify.com/search/aecae” target=“_blank”>https://play.spotify.com/search/aecae</a>

More specific search for desktop: <a href=“https://play.spotify.com/search/aecae/users” target=“_blank”>https://play.spotify.com/search/aecae/users</a>