API Anything

MusicBrainz APIunofficial

Search public artists, releases and recordings, and inspect artist and release pages.

all live 7 operations, checked by the installs that call them.

Seeded by the maintainers.

Try it

Set up API Anything for your agents:

npx -y api-anything setup

Then ask your agent, which finds this site by itself, or call it from a shell:

api-anything pull musicbrainz
api-anything call musicbrainz getArtist mbid=a74b1b7f-71a5-4011-9441-d0b5e4122711

Operations

OperationMethodLoginWritesStatus
getArtist(mbid) -> name, disambiguation, type, gender, area, begin, end

Read public artist details from the artist page.

 GET no no Live0 confirmations · success unknown; last worked unknown
getArtistReleaseGroups(mbid) -> year, title, releaseGroupUrl, artistCredit, rating

List release groups shown on an artist page.

 GET no no Live0 confirmations · success unknown; last worked unknown
getRelease(mbid) -> title, artistCredit, label, catalogNumber

Read a release's title, artist credit, label and catalog number.

 GET no no Live0 confirmations · success unknown; last worked unknown
getReleaseTracks(mbid) -> position, title, length, recordingUrl

Read the tracklist from a release page's structured data.

 GET no no Live0 confirmations · success unknown; last worked unknown
searchArtists(q) -> artistUrl, name, disambiguation, sortName, type, area, begin, end

Search the first page of artists by name or indexed search terms.

 GET no no Live0 confirmations · success unknown; last worked unknown
searchRecordings(q) -> recordingUrl, title, length, artistCredit, release, releaseUrl

Search the first page of recordings by title or indexed search terms.

 GET no no Live0 confirmations · success unknown; last worked unknown
searchReleases(q) -> releaseUrl, title, artistCredit, format, tracks, country, date, label, catalogNumber

Search the first page of releases by title or indexed search terms.

 GET no no Live0 confirmations · success unknown; last worked unknown

Notes

These reads are public. MusicBrainz asks clients to stay at about one request per second. Core MusicBrainz data is CC0; supplementary data can be CC BY-NC-SA. Check the site's data license before reuse.

  • Searches return the first page, up to 25 results. An artist or release MBID is the UUID at the end of its result URL. Artist area need not be a country. Dates can be partial or missing.
  • Release search shows the first displayed country and date if there are several. Track counts are display strings and can show counts per medium, such as 6 + 6.
  • getReleaseTracks returns JSON-LD track positions, including the medium number, and ISO 8601 durations. Track and label information can be absent. getRelease does not include the date, country, barcode or media; use release search for its displayed date, country and format.
  • From a fresh install the first getRelease call can take about 30 s: plain HTTP is turned away until a browser run sets the site's cookies, after which calls answer over plain HTTP (about 3 s).
  • Artist details are a one-item list; dates are the site's display text and may include elapsed time. Gender, end date and disambiguation can be absent.
  • Artist release groups are the first page only (up to 100), across the page's sections. Their section type is not returned; ratings can be absent, and a year may be —.
  • Recording search returns the first displayed release for each recording, not necessarily its earliest release. A recording can have no displayed release; unknown lengths appear as ?:??.

About these operations

Each operation is a request learned from MusicBrainz's own web pages: API Anything replays it over plain HTTP and falls back to a browser when it must. Read them as JSON.

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