spicetify-verified-only

A Spicetify extension that automatically skips tracks from artists without the Verified by Spotify badge (introduced April 2026) - plus a Pi-hole-style dashboard showing every play and block.

Spotify states that AI-generated artists are not eligible for the badge, so in practice this filters AI-generated music out of your autoplay, radio, and queue.

What it does

• Queue pruning - tracks you (or anything else) add to the queue are checked and removed within ~100 ms if the artist isn't verified.
• Auto-skip - tracks injected by autoplay/radio (which can't be removed from the queue) are skipped the moment they start.
• Skip-storm guard - after 5 consecutive unverified tracks, playback pauses instead of skipping forever through an all-unverified context.
• Dashboard - a "Verified Blocks" page in Spotify's sidebar with total plays/blocks, block rate, a 7-day activity chart, top blocked artists, and a recent-blocks table.
• Allowed artists - real artists the badge has missed can be allowed permanently: click "Allow" on a recent block, or paste an artist link in the dashboard. Allowed artists are never blocked.
• Community allowlist - a curated, crowd-sourced list of real-but-unverified artists (community-allowed.json), refreshed daily. Contribute via pull request or issue; entries require evidence the artist is real.

Verdicts are cached for 7 days (one lookup per artist), and the filter fails open: if a lookup errors or Spotify changes the schema, nothing is blocked. Local files and podcasts are ignored.

How it works

The official Web API does not expose verification status. The Spotify client fetches it through the internal GraphQL API (queryArtistOverview), where it lives at:

data.artistUnion.onPlatformReputationTrait.verification.{ isRegistered, isVerified }

isVerified is the new badge. isRegistered is not the same thing - it's the old checkmark (profile claimed in Spotify for Artists), which even AI artists have. This extension filters on isVerified only.

Install

Requires Spicetify and Spotify Premium.

git clone https://github.com/alexanderhenne/spicetify-verified-only.git
cd spicetify-verified-only
cp verified-only.js "$(dirname "$(spicetify -c)")/Extensions/"
cp -r verified-dashboard "$(dirname "$(spicetify -c)")/CustomApps/"
spicetify config extensions verified-only.js
spicetify config custom_apps verified-dashboard
spicetify apply

Restart Spotify. The dashboard appears as a shield icon ("Verified Blocks") in the sidebar.

Uninstall

spicetify config extensions verified-only.js- custom_apps verified-dashboard-
spicetify apply

Configuration

Constants at the top of verified-only.js:

Constant	Default	Meaning
CACHE_TTL_MS	7 days	How long an artist's verified verdict is cached
MAX_CONSECUTIVE_SKIPS	5	Consecutive skips before pausing playback
QUEUE_LOOKAHEAD	10	Upcoming tracks checked per queue update

Stats, event history, and the allowed-artists list live in the client's LocalStorage under verifiedOnly:*. To reset the dashboard, clear those keys from the developer console.

Caveats

• Uses Spotify's internal, undocumented API - it can break without notice when Spotify changes the client.
• Only the track's primary artist is checked.

License

MIT