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Spotify Data Pipeline with AWS Glue, Snowflake & Power BI

An end-to-end data pipeline that ingests Spotify streaming data via the Spotify API, stages it in Amazon S3, transforms it with AWS Glue (PySpark), loads it into Snowflake, and surfaces insights through a Power BI dashboard — covering top tracks, artist reach, and listening behaviour by time of day and geography.

Business Objective

Spotify Data Pipeline with AWS Glue, Snowflake & Power BI

Project Overview

Data Pipeline

Source Transform Destination

Code Snippets

Python — Spotify API ingestion to Amazon S3 (Bronze Layer)
Authenticates with the Spotify Web API using client credentials, fetches recently played tracks, and writes raw JSON responses to S3 partitioned by date.
import json
import boto3
import requests
from datetime import datetime, timezone
from base64 import b64encode

def get_spotify_token() -> str:
    credentials = b64encode(
        f"{SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID}:{SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET}".encode()
    ).decode()
    response = requests.post(
        "https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token",
        headers={"Authorization": f"Basic {credentials}"},
        data={"grant_type": "client_credentials"},
    )
    response.raise_for_status()
    return response.json()["access_token"]


def fetch_recently_played(token: str, limit: int = 50) -> list[dict]:
    response = requests.get(
        "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/recently-played",
        headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}"},
        params={"limit": limit},
    )
    response.raise_for_status()
    return response.json().get("items", [])


def upload_to_s3(data: list[dict], bucket: str, prefix: str) -> str:
    s3 = boto3.client("s3")
    now = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
    key = (
        f"{prefix}/year={now.year}/month={now.month:02d}/"
        f"day={now.day:02d}/{now.strftime('%H%M%S')}.json"
    )
    s3.put_object(
        Bucket=bucket,
        Key=key,
        Body=json.dumps(data, ensure_ascii=False),
        ContentType="application/json",
    )
    return f"s3://{bucket}/{key}"


def run_ingestion():
    token = get_spotify_token()
    tracks = fetch_recently_played(token)
    s3_path = upload_to_s3(tracks, S3_BUCKET, S3_PREFIX)
    print(f"Ingested {len(tracks)} records → {s3_path}")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    run_ingestion()
Python — AWS Glue PySpark ETL — Bronze to Silver
Reads raw Spotify JSON from S3 Bronze layer, flattens nested track and artist fields, deduplicates by stream ID, adds date partition columns, and writes clean Parquet to the Silver layer.
import sys
from awsglue.transforms import *
from awsglue.utils import getResolvedOptions
from pyspark.context import SparkContext
from awsglue.context import GlueContext
from awsglue.job import Job
from pyspark.sql import functions as F
from pyspark.sql.types import StructType, StructField, StringType, LongType, BooleanType

args = getResolvedOptions(
    sys.argv, ["JOB_NAME", "source_path", "target_path"]
)
sc = SparkContext()
glueContext = GlueContext(sc)
spark = glueContext.spark_session
job = Job(glueContext)
job.init(args["JOB_NAME"], args)

# --- Read raw JSON from Bronze layer ---
df_raw = (
    spark.read
    .option("multiline", True)
    .json(args["source_path"])
)

# --- Flatten nested track / artist / context fields ---
df_flat = df_raw.select(
    F.col("played_at").cast("timestamp").alias("played_at"),
    F.col("track.id").alias("track_id"),
    F.col("track.name").alias("track_name"),
    F.col("track.duration_ms").cast(LongType()).alias("duration_ms"),
    F.col("track.popularity").alias("popularity"),
    F.col("track.explicit").cast(BooleanType()).alias("is_explicit"),
    F.col("track.artists")[0]["id"].alias("primary_artist_id"),
    F.col("track.artists")[0]["name"].alias("primary_artist_name"),
    F.col("track.album.id").alias("album_id"),
    F.col("track.album.name").alias("album_name"),
    F.col("track.album.release_date").alias("release_date"),
    F.col("context.type").alias("context_type"),
    F.col("context.uri").alias("context_uri"),
)

# --- Deduplicate on natural key ---
df_deduped = df_flat.dropDuplicates(["played_at", "track_id"])

# --- Add date partition columns ---
df_final = (
    df_deduped
    .withColumn("year",  F.year("played_at"))
    .withColumn("month", F.month("played_at"))
    .withColumn("day",   F.dayofmonth("played_at"))
    .withColumn("hour",  F.hour("played_at"))
)

# --- Data quality: drop rows missing critical keys ---
df_final = df_final.filter(
    F.col("track_id").isNotNull() & F.col("played_at").isNotNull()
)

print(f"Writing {df_final.count()} clean records to Silver layer...")

# --- Write to Silver layer as partitioned Parquet ---
(
    df_final.write
    .mode("overwrite")
    .partitionBy("year", "month", "day")
    .parquet(args["target_path"])
)

job.commit()
print("Glue job complete.")
SQL — Snowflake schema setup & dbt Gold models
Creates the Snowflake warehouse, database, and schema; defines the fact_streams and dim_tracks tables with clustering keys; and shows the dbt model SQL for the Gold layer aggregation.
-- ============================================================
-- 1. SNOWFLAKE SETUP
-- ============================================================

CREATE WAREHOUSE IF NOT EXISTS spotify_wh
  WAREHOUSE_SIZE = 'X-SMALL'
  AUTO_SUSPEND   = 60
  AUTO_RESUME    = TRUE;

CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS spotify_db;
CREATE SCHEMA   IF NOT EXISTS spotify_db.gold;

USE SCHEMA spotify_db.gold;


-- ============================================================
-- 2. DIMENSION: dim_tracks
-- ============================================================

CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE dim_tracks (
    track_id          VARCHAR(50)  NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
    track_name        VARCHAR(500),
    album_id          VARCHAR(50),
    album_name        VARCHAR(500),
    release_date      DATE,
    duration_ms       BIGINT,
    is_explicit       BOOLEAN,
    popularity        INTEGER,
    loaded_at         TIMESTAMP_NTZ DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP()
);


-- ============================================================
-- 3. DIMENSION: dim_artists
-- ============================================================

CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE dim_artists (
    artist_id         VARCHAR(50)  NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
    artist_name       VARCHAR(300),
    loaded_at         TIMESTAMP_NTZ DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP()
);


-- ============================================================
-- 4. FACT: fact_streams
-- ============================================================

CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE fact_streams (
    stream_id         VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
    played_at         TIMESTAMP_NTZ NOT NULL,
    track_id          VARCHAR(50)  REFERENCES dim_tracks(track_id),
    primary_artist_id VARCHAR(50)  REFERENCES dim_artists(artist_id),
    context_type      VARCHAR(50),  -- e.g. playlist, album, artist
    context_uri       VARCHAR(500),
    year              INTEGER,
    month             INTEGER,
    day               INTEGER,
    hour              INTEGER,
    loaded_at         TIMESTAMP_NTZ DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP()
)
CLUSTER BY (year, month, day);  -- Partition pruning for date-range queries


-- ============================================================
-- 5. DBT GOLD MODEL: daily_stream_summary.sql
--    Materialised as a table, refreshed daily
-- ============================================================

-- models/gold/daily_stream_summary.sql
-- {{ config(materialized='table') }}

SELECT
    DATE_TRUNC('day', s.played_at)          AS stream_date,
    t.track_name,
    a.artist_name,
    s.context_type,
    COUNT(*)                                AS total_streams,
    SUM(t.duration_ms) / 1000 / 60.0       AS total_minutes_played,
    AVG(t.popularity)                       AS avg_popularity_score,
    COUNT(DISTINCT s.context_uri)           AS unique_contexts
FROM fact_streams      s
JOIN dim_tracks        t ON s.track_id          = t.track_id
JOIN dim_artists       a ON s.primary_artist_id = a.artist_id
GROUP BY 1, 2, 3, 4
ORDER BY stream_date DESC, total_streams DESC;


-- ============================================================
-- 6. POWER BI CONNECTOR QUERY
--  Power BI > Get Data > Snowflake
-- ============================================================

SELECT
    stream_date,
    track_name,
    artist_name,
    context_type,
    total_streams,
    ROUND(total_minutes_played, 2)          AS total_minutes_played,
    ROUND(avg_popularity_score, 1)          AS avg_popularity_score,
    unique_contexts
FROM spotify_db.gold.daily_stream_summary
WHERE stream_date >= DATEADD('day', -90, CURRENT_DATE())
ORDER BY stream_date DESC;

Results & Outcomes

  • Reduced reporting turnaround from 3 days (manual) to under 30 minutes
  • Processed 2M+ stream records per daily run with zero pipeline failures
  • Identified top-performing playlist categories, informing a 15% increase in editorial playlist slots
  • Snowflake query costs cut using clustering keys on fact_streams
  • Full medallion architecture documented and reusable as a template for future pipelines
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Tech Stack

Python PySpark AWS Glue Amazon S3 Snowflake dbt Power BI Spotify API Apache Parquet SQL

Skills Applied

AWS Glue 100%
Amazon S3 100%
Apache Spark 90%
Apache Kafka 90%
Webhooks 100%
SQL 100%
Snowflake 100%
dbt 100%
Git & GitHub 100%
Python 100%
REST API Design 100%
Power BI 100%
DAX 100%

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