/musicbrainz/artists/search

POST /api/musicbrainz/artists/search

Price: 1 credit

Search MusicBrainz artists

How to use it

Search MusicBrainz for artists and groups. Provide a free-text 'query' and/or named filters (artist name, alias, area, country, type, gender, tag, begin/end dates, disambiguation comment, MBID, IPI, ISNI). Returns scored matches with name, sort name, disambiguation, type, gender, country, area, life span, ISNI/IPI codes, aliases and tags.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• query string nullable — Free-text Lucene query (examples: "nirvana")
• artist string nullable — Filter by artist name (examples: "Nirvana")
• alias string nullable — Filter by an artist alias / alternate name
• area string nullable — Filter by associated area name (examples: "Seattle")
• country string nullable — Filter by ISO country code (examples: "US")
• type string nullable — Filter by artist type (one of: "person", "group", "orchestra", "choir", "character", "other")
• gender string nullable — Filter by gender (persons only) (one of: "male", "female", "other", "not applicable")
• tag string nullable — Filter by folksonomy tag (examples: "grunge")
• begin string nullable — Filter by begin date (YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD) (examples: "1987")
• end string nullable — Filter by end date (YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD)
• comment string nullable — Filter by disambiguation comment
• arid string nullable — Filter by artist MBID
• ipi string nullable — Filter by IPI code
• isni string nullable — Filter by ISNI code
• count integer required — Max number of results to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "MusicBrainzArtistSearchResult")
• id string required
• url string required
• score integer nullable
• name string nullable
• sort_name string nullable
• disambiguation string nullable
• type string nullable
• gender string nullable
• country string nullable
• area object nullable
  • @type string (default: "MusicBrainzAreaRef")
  • id string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • sort_name string nullable
  • type string nullable
  • disambiguation string nullable
  • iso_3166_1_codes array (default: [])
  • iso_3166_2_codes array (default: [])
• begin_area object nullable
  • @type string (default: "MusicBrainzAreaRef")
  • id string nullable
  • name string nullable
  • sort_name string nullable
  • type string nullable
  • disambiguation string nullable
  • iso_3166_1_codes array (default: [])
  • iso_3166_2_codes array (default: [])
• life_span object nullable
  • @type string (default: "MusicBrainzLifeSpan")
  • begin string nullable
  • end string nullable
  • ended boolean nullable
• isnis array (default: [])
• ipis array (default: [])
• aliases array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "MusicBrainzAlias")
  • name string nullable
  • sort_name string nullable
  • locale string nullable
  • type string nullable
  • primary boolean nullable
  • begin string nullable
  • end string nullable
  • ended boolean nullable
• tags array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "MusicBrainzTag")
  • name string nullable
  • vote_count integer (default: 0)

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit 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 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed 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 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 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 Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response 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.