MusicBrainz artist

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GET https://api.api.sh/musicbrainz/v1/artist

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An artist: type, country, area, life span, gender, ISNI/IPI codes, aliases and relationships (members, URLs, labels).

Every response includes credits_used: the credits this call cost.

Parameters

name	type	description
`id`	string	MusicBrainz artist id (the UUID in its musicbrainz.org link); or `url`. Example: `a74b1b7f-71a5-4011-9441-d0b5e4122711`
`url`	string	Instead of id: the musicbrainz.org link.

Every endpoint also takes fresh, raw, fields (see lean responses and caching).

Example

curl "https://api.api.sh/musicbrainz/v1/artist?id=a74b1b7f-71a5-4011-9441-d0b5e4122711" \
  -H "x-api-key: $APISH_KEY"

import os, requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.api.sh/musicbrainz/v1/artist",
    params={"id": "a74b1b7f-71a5-4011-9441-d0b5e4122711"},
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["APISH_KEY"]},
    timeout=120,
)
res.raise_for_status()
data = res.json()

const url = new URL("https://api.api.sh/musicbrainz/v1/artist");
url.searchParams.set("id", "a74b1b7f-71a5-4011-9441-d0b5e4122711");

const res = await fetch(url, { headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.APISH_KEY } });
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status} ${await res.text()}`);
const data = await res.json();

Response

A JSON object with the fields described above, plus raw (the source's own data), cached, fetched_at and credits_used. Errors return {"success": false, "error": "…"} with the HTTP status (see errors). A lookup that ran but found nothing (404) costs the price above; refused calls and errors on our side are free (what's charged).

The fastest way to see the full response is the playground: it runs this endpoint with your account and shows the exact JSON.