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Genius Albums API

Album metadata, tracks, cover art, and leaderboards.

Genius Albums API is one of 9 APIs that Genius publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 9 JSON Schema definitions.

Tagged areas include Albums. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, rate-limit docs, and 9 JSON Schemas.

This API exposes 5 operations across 5 paths, and defines 22 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.genius.com.

5 operations 5 paths 22 schemas 5 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://api.genius.com
Authentication
OAuth 2.0, HTTP Bearer
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

Genius Albums API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (GeniusOAuth2) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 4 scopes. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (client_access_token) (ClientAccessToken).

  • GeniusOAuth2 — Genius uses OAuth 2.0 with the authorization-code flow. Apps are registered at https://genius.com/api-clients.
  • ClientAccessToken — Client-only access token issued at app registration. Sufficient for read-only endpoints (search, songs, artists, albums, annotations, referents, webpages/looku…

Paths & Operations 5

Across 5 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 5 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Albums 5

Album metadata, tracks, cover art, and leaderboards.

GET
/albums/{id}
Get Album
getAlbum 2 params → 200404
GET
/albums/{id}/tracks
List Album Tracks
getAlbumTracks 3 params → 200
GET
/albums/{id}/comments
Get Album Comments
getAlbumComments 3 params → 200
GET
/albums/{id}/cover_arts
Get Album Cover Arts
getAlbumCoverArts 1 param → 200
GET
/albums/{id}/leaderboard
Get Album Leaderboard
getAlbumLeaderboard 3 params → 200

Schemas 22

The contract defines 22 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Song (28 properties), Annotation (18 properties), Artist (16 properties), Referent (14 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

RichText
object
Genius represents textual content in multiple formats. Which key is present depends on the textformat query parameter.
4 properties
Song
object
A Genius song record.
28 properties
AlbumResponse
object
2 properties
Meta
object
Wrapper metadata included on every response.
2 properties 1 required
LeaderboardResponse
object
2 properties
CommentListResponse
object
2 properties
ErrorResponse
object
1 property 1 required
CoverArtListResponse
object
2 properties
Comment
object
6 properties
LeaderboardEntry
object
2 properties
Artist
object
16 properties
CoverArt
object
5 properties
SongStats
object
3 properties
Annotation
object
18 properties
Annotatable
object
7 properties
AnnotationAuthor
object
3 properties
Album
object
9 properties
AlbumTracksResponse
object
2 properties
Media
object
5 properties
AlbumTrack
object
2 properties
User
object
12 properties
Referent
object
A referent is a fragment of text on a page that one or more annotations are attached to.
14 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

genius-albums-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Genius publishes across the network.

Genius Account API
Genius Annotations API
Genius Artists API
Genius Referents API
Genius Search API
Genius Songs API
Genius Users API
Genius Web Pages API
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