# /iqiyi/albums

`POST /api/iqiyi/albums`

Price: 1 credit

Get one iQIYI album — a series, film, variety show, anime or documentary — by its id or iq.com URL. Returns the title in the requested language, synopsis, channel, cast with their credits and characters, genre and region tags, viewer score and vote distribution, VIP and exclusivity flags, episode counts, publication dates, artwork and the list of country codes the title may be played in.

## How to use it

Use this for the title as a whole; a single episode is /iqiyi/videos, and passing an episode id here returns 412 rather than its parent. A title nobody has rated comes back with no `score` and a `vote_count` of 0, everything else still populated. A film has no video record of its own: its `default_video_id` is null and its `play_url` points back at this same album, so read the film here rather than from /iqiyi/videos. This endpoint answers for every `market`, including ones the title is not licensed in — an unlicensed market shows up on /iqiyi/albums/videos, as a 412.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `lang` (string) — Language of the titles, synopses and tag names in the response (default: "en_us"; one of: "en_us", "zh_cn", "zh_tw", "ar_ae", "vi_vn", "th_th", "pt_br", "ms_my", "id_id", "es_mx")
- `market` (string) — Storefront whose catalogue and licensing the request is answered for (default: "us"; one of: "ae", "ar", "au", "bh", "bn", "br", "ca", "cl", "co", "de", "eg", "es", "fr", "gb", "hk", "id", "in", "jp", "kh", "kr", "kw", "kz", "la", "mm", "mo", "mx", "my", "nz", "om", "pe", "ph", "pt", "qa", "sa", "sg", "th", "ua", "us", "vn")
- `album` (string, required) — Album numeric id, short id or iq.com album URL (examples: "1422741401742501", "f5unp9qy15", "https://www.iq.com/album/knot-2026-f5unp9qy15"; minLength: 1)

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "IqiyiAlbum")
- `id` (string, required)
- `alias` (string, nullable)
- `name` (string, nullable)
- `short_name` (string, nullable)
- `alternative_titles` (array) (default: [])
- `description` (string, nullable)
- `tagline` (string, nullable)
- `url` (string, nullable)
- `play_url` (string, nullable)
- `channel` (string, nullable)
- `channel_id` (string, nullable)
- `is_series` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_short` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_exclusive` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_iqiyi_produced` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_dolby` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_1080p` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_3d` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_vip` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_tvod` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_coupon` (boolean) (default: false)
- `is_package` (boolean) (default: false)
- `pay_mark` (string, nullable)
- `season` (integer, nullable)
- `episode_count` (integer, nullable)
- `available_episode_count` (integer, nullable)
- `latest_episode_order` (integer, nullable)
- `first_episode_order` (integer, nullable)
- `trailer_count` (integer, nullable)
- `content_rating` (string, nullable)
- `content_warning` (string, nullable)
- `score` (number, nullable)
- `vote_count` (integer, nullable)
- `score_distribution` (array) (default: [])
- `publish_date` (string, nullable)
- `last_publish_date` (string, nullable)
- `published_at` (integer, nullable)
- `issued_at` (integer, nullable)
- `default_video_id` (string, nullable)
- `image` (string, nullable)
- `cover` (string, nullable)
- `cast` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "IqiyiCastMember")
  - `id` (string, required)
  - `name` (string, nullable)
  - `credit` (string, nullable)
  - `role` (string, nullable)
  - `character` (string, nullable)
  - `image` (string, nullable)
  - `profile_url` (string, nullable)
- `tags` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "IqiyiTag")
  - `id` (string, required)
  - `name` (string, nullable)
  - `group` (string, nullable)
- `chart_ranks` (array) (default: [])
  - `@type` (string) (default: "IqiyiChartRank")
  - `chart` (string, required)
  - `rank` (integer, nullable)
- `audio_languages` (array) (default: [])
- `hdr_formats` (array) (default: [])
- `collection_ids` (array) (default: [])
- `allowed_regions` (array) (default: [])

## Errors

### 422 — Validation Error

The request body did not validate

What to do: Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.

- `detail` (array)
  - `loc` (array, required)
  - `msg` (string, required)
  - `type` (string, required)
  - `input` (any)
  - `ctx` (object)

### 408

The request ran past its time limit

What to do: Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.

### 412

No album with this id

What to do: Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.

### 429

Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted

What to do: When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.

### 500

Something broke on our side

What to do: Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.

### 529

Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded

What to do: Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

## Response envelope

Success: Array of objects (may be empty if no results)

Error: Error may coexist with partial results if it occurs mid-execution. Check X-Error header and status code.

Every response carries these headers:

- `X-Error` — Error message text (present only on error)
- `X-Request-ID` — Unique request identifier
- `X-Execution-Time` — Execution time in seconds
- `X-Result-Count` — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
- `X-Total-Available-Results` — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
- `X-Warning` — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
- `X-Retry-After` — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.