Waymark / Routes / musicbrainz.org Look up and search recording metadata using the MusicBrainz API
domain: musicbrainz.org · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps Use the web service root https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/ for all calls If you only have a name (artist, recording, etc.), first hit the Search endpoint to find candidate matches and obtain an MBID Once you have an MBID, call the lookup endpoint in the form /<ENTITY_TYPE>/<MBID>?inc=<INC> (e.g. recordings with inc=releases or inc=release-groups) Choose JSON or XML output format as needed for the response Respect MusicBrainz's rate-limiting expectations for unauthenticated/low-volume use Known gotchas Lookup-by-MBID and Search are different endpoints - you cannot look up an entity directly by name, only by MBID, so a search step is mandatory first The inc= parameter determines which related entities are embedded in the response; omitting it returns a minimal object missing releases/relationships
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