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ACRCloud Identification API

Recognize music, custom audio, and humming from a sample or fingerprint.

ACRCloud Identification API is one of 6 APIs that ACRCloud publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Identification. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and an API reference.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 3 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.1, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against 3 base URLs: https://identify-eu-west-1.acrcloud.com, https://api-v2.acrcloud.com, https://eu-api-v2.acrcloud.com.

1 operations 1 paths 3 schemas 1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.1
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://identify-eu-west-1.acrcloud.com/v1
Authentication
API Key, HTTP Bearer
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

ACRCloud Identification API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. An API key is passed in the query as signature (acrSignature). It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearerAuth).

  • acrSignature — HMAC-SHA1 request signing for the Identification API. The client sends accesskey, timestamp, signatureversion=1, datatype, and a Base64 signature. The signatur…
  • bearerAuth — Console API access token created in the ACRCloud console developer settings and sent as "Authorization: Bearer {token}".

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Identification 1

Recognize music, custom audio, and humming from a sample or fingerprint.

POST
/v1/identify
Identify music or custom audio from a sample or fingerprint.
identify body → 200

Schemas 3

The contract defines 3 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are MusicMatch (10 properties), IdentifyRequest (7 properties), IdentifyResponse (3 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

MusicMatch
object
10 properties
IdentifyResponse
object
3 properties
IdentifyRequest
object
7 properties 5 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

acrcloud-identification-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs ACRCloud publishes across the network.

ACRCloud Audio Files API
ACRCloud Broadcast Monitoring API
ACRCloud Buckets API
ACRCloud File Scanning API
ACRCloud Metadata API