Archive Discover Weekly

Spotify’s Discover Weekly playlist refreshes every Monday, replacing last week’s recommendations. This guide shows you how to automatically archive those tracks so you never lose a great discovery.

The Problem

Discover Weekly is a personalized playlist that Spotify updates weekly. Once it refreshes, the previous week’s tracks are gone forever - unless you save them.

The Solution

Create a pipeline that:

1. Reads tracks from your Discover Weekly playlist
2. Appends them to an archive playlist

Pipeline Configuration

Web App

1. Create a new pipeline called “Archive Discover Weekly”
2. Add a Get Playlist Tracks task
   • Select your Discover Weekly playlist
3. Add a Save to Playlist task
   • Create or select an archive playlist (e.g., “Discover Weekly Archive”)
   • Set mode to Append (not Replace)
4. Schedule the pipeline to run weekly (e.g., Sunday evening before it refreshes)

CLI

archive-discover-weekly.yaml

name: Archive Discover Weekly
tasks:
  - type: getPlaylistTracks
    playlistId: "37i9dQZEVXcQ9COmYvdajy"  # Your Discover Weekly ID
  - type: saveToPlaylist
    name: "Discover Weekly Archive"
    mode: append

Run it:

plpl run archive-discover-weekly.yaml

Tips

• Schedule it for Sunday - Discover Weekly updates Monday morning, so run your pipeline Sunday evening to catch the latest tracks
• Deduplicate periodically - Over time, you may get repeat recommendations. Create a separate pipeline to deduplicate your archive
• Check the playlist ID - Your Discover Weekly has a unique ID. Find it by right-clicking the playlist in Spotify and selecting “Share” > “Copy Spotify URI”