On a schedule

Save Discover Weekly to a permanent playlist each Monday

Each week's Discover Weekly tracks land in an archive playlist, with no duplicates.

Runs: On a schedule
Apps: Spotify
AI: Not needed
Access: playlist-read-private, playlist-modify-private

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: every Monday at 9am, copy my Discover Weekly tracks into my 'Discover Weekly Archive' playlist and skip any already there.

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Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Discover Weekly is one of the best things Spotify does, and also one of the most fleeting. Every Monday a fresh set of thirty songs arrives, and the previous week's set is erased. You listen on the commute, hear a track you love, forget to save it, and by the following Monday it is gone. Finding it again means scrolling your history or trying to recall a lyric. Years of recommendations are lost this way.

Every Monday, ClickRuntime reads the current Discover Weekly playlist, reads the archive playlist you keep, and adds any tracks that are not already in it. Nothing is removed from the archive, so it grows into a long record of everything Spotify recommended to you, in order of arrival.

It is meant for people who rely on Discover Weekly to find new music and do not want their favorites to disappear.

What you get out of it

No more lost favorites
A song you enjoyed on Tuesday stays available long after Discover Weekly is replaced. You can return to it months later without having to remember its title. There is no need to decide quickly whether a song deserves saving, because it is kept regardless.
A personal library of recommendations
After a year, the archive holds hundreds of songs chosen for you. It becomes a deep, tailored playlist you can shuffle for variety, with no further effort. Nobody else has a list quite like it, because the songs come from your own listening.
Listening can be unhurried
You no longer need to save songs in the moment or rush through the playlist before it refreshes. The archive keeps the lot, and you can sort out favorites on a quiet weekend.
Duplicates are avoided
Tracks already in the archive are not added again. If Spotify recommends the same song twice in two months, your archive shows it once and does not clutter. That keeps the archive pleasant to browse, with a clean list instead of repeated entries.
Taste changes are documented
Scrolling the archive from the oldest tracks to the newest shows how your taste moved over time, which is a nice thing to see and a useful source for choosing a playlist. Few people ever see their own listening history laid out this way.

How it works

What happens, step by step

Every Monday, ClickRuntime reads this week's Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify.
It checks your archive playlist and skips any songs already there.
The new songs are added to the archive, so you keep each week's picks after Spotify replaces them.

Before it runs live

Connect Spotify

What you get

RunsOn a schedule

Save Discover Weekly to a permanent playlist each Mondaytoday, 9:00Succeeded

Spotify · Discover Weekly ArchiveAdded 28 new tracks to Discover Weekly Archive (2 were already there)

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

Your own rules
Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.
Any number of apps
One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.
AI where it helps
Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.
On a schedule or on each event
Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
Combine it with other Spotify steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.

archive_discover_weekly_every_monday.pyexample

from clickruntime import on_trigger, credentials, http

API = "https://api.spotify.com/v1"
ARCHIVE = "Discover Weekly Archive"

def track_uris(h, playlist_id):
    uris, url = [], f"{API}/playlists/{playlist_id}/tracks?fields=items(track(uri)),next&limit=100"
    while url:
        page = http.get(url, headers=h).json()
        uris += [i["track"]["uri"] for i in page["items"] if i.get("track")]
        url = page["next"]
    return uris

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    h = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {credentials.connection('spotify', 'personal')}"}
    lists = http.get(f"{API}/me/playlists", headers=h, params={"limit": 50}).json()["items"]
    ids = {p["name"]: p["id"] for p in lists}
    have = set(track_uris(h, ids[ARCHIVE]))
    new = [u for u in track_uris(h, ids["Discover Weekly"]) if u not in have]
    if new:
        http.post(f"{API}/playlists/{ids[ARCHIVE]}/tracks", headers=h, json={"uris": new[:100]})
    return {"added": len(new)}

FAQ

Common questions

Does it work if I have not saved Discover Weekly?

It reads the playlist that Spotify generates for you, which appears in your library as long as you have been given one. If you cannot see it, follow it in Spotify first so that it can be read.

Is the archive playlist created for me?

You provide an existing playlist to act as the archive, and tracks are added to it. Create an empty playlist named something like Discover Archive in Spotify first, and then the weekly run will fill it.

What happens if I miss a week?

Nothing breaks. The run happens on Monday and captures whatever the playlist contains at that moment. If Spotify has not yet refreshed it, the previous set is read again, and its tracks are already archived.

What permissions does it need?

playlist-read-private, playlist-modify-private. Nothing else in your accounts is used.

Does it need AI?

No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.

How many runs does it use?

One run each time it runs (on a schedule). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.

Can I change how it works?

Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

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