Connect Spotify
Follow, save a track, or pre-save the next drop — read back over OAuth.
What this step actually checks.
Hard verify
Hard. When a fan connects Spotify, the Web API reads their follow and saved-library state straight back, so a cleared step is a proven one. A pre-save schedules the save for release day and confirms once it lands.
Find your artist ID or track ID
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Open your profile or the track in the Spotify desktop or mobile app. For a follow step you want your artist page; for a save or pre-save you want the specific track.
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Hit the three-dot menu (···) next to the play button, open Share, and choose Copy link to artist or Copy link to song.
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The ID is the long code in that link — open.spotify.com/artist/THIS_PART or open.spotify.com/track/THIS_PART. Paste the whole link into the builder; GateCrate pulls the ID out for you.
Heads up — A pre-save needs the track to exist already, or its release set up in Spotify for Artists — you cannot pre-save a song that has no URL yet.
The action it runs.
In the builder you choose which Spotify action this step asks for — follow, save, pre-save. Each one maps to the same move a fan would make by hand on Spotify, and the step clears the way the API confirms it.
What the fan sees.
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The fan taps Connect Spotify on your gate. A Spotify login pops up in its own window — it never touches your artist account or session.
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They approve the read-only connection. GateCrate checks whether they already follow you (or own the save) and, if not, runs the follow or save for them.
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The step flips to verified the instant the API confirms it. No screenshots, no honour system — the action is read back as real.
Whatever the fan connects to clear this step stays walled off from your artist login — their Spotify session never touches yours, and yours never touches theirs.
Add the Spotify step to your gate.
Toggle it on, paste your ID, and ship. Email capture works alongside it from the first unlock — owned from day one.