MusicBrainz API
by musicbrainz.org
Audio
Added on November 7th, 2026
Checked and working on November 7th, 2026
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What it does
The MusicBrainz API gives open music metadata: artists, releases, recordings, labels and their identifiers, for example to tag a music library or show album details. Requests are GET calls that answer in XML or, with fmt=json, in JSON. Free, no key needed, at about one request per second per IP address. Every request needs a User-Agent with the application's name and a contact address, or it is throttled.
At a glance
- API key
- Not needed · More APIs with no key
- Pricing
- Free, no key needed, at about one request per second per IP address.
- From the browser
- Yes (CORS)
- Formats
- JSON, XML
- Interface
- REST, HTTP-GET
- Provider
- musicbrainz.org
- Last checked
- Working on November 7th, 2026
More information: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_API
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Example request
curl
curl 'https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/artist/?query=artist:radiohead&fmt=json&limit=1' \
-H 'User-Agent: YourApp/1.0 ( https://example.com )'JavaScript
const response = await fetch("https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/artist/?query=artist:radiohead&fmt=json&limit=1", {
headers: {
"User-Agent": "YourApp/1.0 ( https://example.com )",
},
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);Python
import requests
response = requests.get(
"https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/artist/?query=artist:radiohead&fmt=json&limit=1",
headers={
"User-Agent": "YourApp/1.0 ( https://example.com )",
},
timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())The JavaScript works in a web page as well as in Node.js 18 or newer.