Musicbrainz: Search Artist
Musicbrainz via Parse · music
Full-text search over MusicBrainz artists. Supports Lucene query syntax for field-specific searches (e.g. area:"New York", type:Group). Returns paginated artist summaries with tags, genres, aliases, and life span. Each result includes an MBID usable with get_artist_details for full metadata. Comprehensive music metadata API powered by MusicBrainz, providing artist information, song credits, album and release details, genres, track durations, and community-verified data. Fulfilled by Parse from musicbrainz.org.
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- entertainment
- music
- musicbrainz
- musicbrainz-org
- parse
- platform-key
Price and execution
- Price
- $0.02 USD credits / call
- Trust tier
- Verified
- Execution
- Managed call
- Capability group
- music
Interface snapshot
- Protocol
- HTTP operation
- Operation
- GET /scraper/b76d1d93-5af4-4108-bc84-5729f72c3ce5/search_artist
- Interface artifact
- sha256:e658f9d8c0da8af75cec40fd4a1502cf044982c9f1dec416808df155d74fe68c
- Manifest digest
- sha256:cdc2f1406792b3b8cb1d35e34ff30d17a194f70a2668399c44db6579f685f463
Request fields
- limit (integer): Maximum number of results (1-100).: Allowed values: 5, 10, 25, 50, 100
- query (string, required): Search query. Supports Lucene syntax: plain text ('Aretha Franklin'), field-specific ('area:"New York"'), or combined ('artist:"Beatles" AND type:Group').
- offset (integer): Pagination offset for results.: Allowed values: 0
Example queries
- {"limit":"5","query":"Aretha Franklin","offset":"0"}