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iTunes Search

Search Apple Music, iTunes, App Store and podcasts

🎬 MediaUNMONITORED
AUTH NONECORS ✗AGENT ?HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

Apple's public iTunes Search API returns music, apps, movies, books and podcasts as JSON with artwork URLs and preview links. No key required; keep requests modest per Apple's guidance. Widely used for music metadata and podcast directories.

—HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
Docs ↗
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ON PROBE SCHEDULE

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Open provider docs ↗

Uptime historystarts after first probe

On our probe schedule. Uptime charts appear after the first check lands.

Example responsefrom provider docs — not verified by us
GET https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=beatles&limit=1

{
  "resultCount": 1,
  "results": [
    {
      "wrapperType": "audiobook",
      "artistId": 160778930,
      "collectionId": 1439484338,
      "artistName": "Bob Spitz",
      "collectionName": "The Beatles (Abridged)",
      "collectionCensoredName": "The Beatles (Abridged)",
      "artistViewUrl": "https://books.apple.com/us/author/bob-spitz/id160778930?uo=4",
      "collectionViewUrl": "https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/the-beatles-abridged/id1439484338?uo=4"
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=beatles&limit=1"
const res = await fetch("https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=beatles&limit=1");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=beatles&limit=1")
print(res.json())

BROWSER CALLS BLOCKED (NO CORS/HTTPS) — USE THE CURL SNIPPET

Endpoints · 3On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
On schedule — GET /search?term=beatles&limit=1 awaits first probe
GET/search?term=beatles&limit=1PROBED

Search Apple Music, iTunes, App Store and podcasts

GET/search?limit=5

Search by query parameters.

GET/search?page=1

Search by query parameters.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Not tracked yet. Shape-change history starts once this API joins our probe schedule.

iTunes Search: common questions

Is iTunes Search free to use?

Yes — iTunes Search is a free media API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does iTunes Search need an API key?

No — iTunes Search needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call iTunes Search from the browser?

Not directly — iTunes Search doesn't send browser-friendly CORS headers, so call it from a server or proxy instead. Copy the curl or Python snippet on this page to get started.

Is iTunes Search up right now?

iTunes Search is catalogued but not yet on our probe schedule, so we don't publish a live status for it. Check the provider's own status page or docs for its current state.