MusicBrainz Identifiers API
Non-MBID lookups by ISRC, ISWC, and DiscID.
MusicBrainz Identifiers API is one of 16 APIs that MusicBrainz publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 5 JSON Schema definitions.
Tagged areas include Identifiers. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a getting-started guide, authentication docs, rate-limit docs, a JSON-LD context, and 5 JSON Schemas.
This API exposes 4 operations across 4 paths, and defines 16 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 2.0.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2, https://beta.musicbrainz.org/ws/2.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 2
MusicBrainz Identifiers API declares
2 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (HTTPBasic).
It supports OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2) using the authorizationCode flow, exposing 7 scopes.
HTTPBasic— HTTP Basic authentication using MusicBrainz editor credentials. Required for submission and user-specific endpoints.OAuth2— OAuth 2.0 authentication via the MusicBrainz OAuth server.
Paths & Operations 4
Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 4 operations — 4 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Non-MBID lookups by ISRC, ISWC, and DiscID.
Schemas 16
The contract defines 16 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Release (23 properties), Artist (19 properties), Label (14 properties), Relation (13 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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