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MusicBrainz API - Artists, Albums, Recordings

Search the MusicBrainz open music encyclopedia: artists (type, country, gender, area, active years, tags), releases (title, artist, date, country, label, barcode, track count, type) and recordings (title, artist, length, first release, ISRCs), with MusicBrainz IDs and links.

$0.08 per 1,000 rows

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What it returns

Search the MusicBrainz open music encyclopedia: artists (type, country, gender, area, active years, tags), releases (title, artist, date, country, label, barcode, track count, type) and recordings (title, artist, length, first release, ISRCs), with MusicBrainz IDs and links.

Request

POST https://api.pushbuild.com/musicbrainz-search/run with a JSON body. Send your key in the X-API-Key header.

FieldTypeDescription
entitystring: artist, release, recording Default: "artist".
querystringPlain text or Lucene, e.g. artist:radiohead AND country:GB
maxItemsintegerMaximum items to return (1-500). Default: 100.

Example

curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/musicbrainz-search/run \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxItems": 20}'

Response

{"count": 20, "truncated": false, "seconds": 1.4, "items": [ { ... } ]}

Each call returns up to 500 items. Records that fail validation or are not found are flagged in the items and not charged.

Pricing

Pay only for results returned: $0.08 per 1,000 rows. No charge for errors or empty searches.

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