Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR Anna’s Archive claims it has scraped almost all of Spotify.
The archive includes metadata for 256 million tracks and audio for 86 million songs.
The total size of the archive is nearly 300TB, being shared via torrents and organized by popularity.
Update: December 22, 2025 (4:51 AM ET): Spotify has shared the following statement with Android Authority addressing Anna’s Archive’s claims of scraping the platform at scale. An investigation into unauthorized access identified that a third party scraped public metadata and used illicit tactics to circumvent DRM to access some of the platform’s audio files. We are actively investigating the incident. Spotify’s statement stops short of confirming the scale described by Anna’s Archive. While the platform says only “some” of its audio files were accessed, Anna’s Archive claims it was able to archive music representing 99.6% of all listens on Spotify.
At this point, it’s unclear how much of the platform was actually affected, what Spotify’s investigation will uncover, or whether any legal action will follow. Original article: December 21, 2025 (10:58 PM ET): Anna’s Archive, best known for backing up books and research papers, just pulled off something absolutely wild. It claims to have scraped almost the entirety of Spotify.
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According to a new blog post, the group has archived metadata for 256 million tracks and audio files for 86 million songs, covering around 99.6% of all listens on Spotify. The full archive weighs in at just under 300TB and is being distributed via bulk torrents, sorted by popularity.
If that sounds enormous, it is. Anna’s Archive says this is now the largest publicly available music metadata database in the world.
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