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 (8:45 PM ET): Spotify has shared an updated statement with Android Authority addressing Anna’s Archive’s claims of scraping the platform at scale. The platform says it has identified the user account used for the “unlawful” scraping. Here’s how the statement reads: Spotify has identified and disabled the nefarious user accounts that engaged in unlawful scraping. We’ve implemented new safeguards for these types of anti-copyright attacks and are actively monitoring for suspicious behavior. Since day one, we have stood with the artist community against piracy, and we are actively working with our industry partners to protect creators and defend their rights. The company had previously told us that it had identified “that a third party scraped public metadata and used illicit tactics to circumvent DRM to access some of the platform’s audio files.”
Spotify’s older statement stopped short of confirming the scale of the scraping 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 or whether any legal action will be taken to remove the scraped data from torrents. 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.
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