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iTunes Search

Search Apple Music, iTunes, App Store and podcasts

🎬 MediaDYINGchecked 24 min ago
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.

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 43 · dying
Uptime history
6.0%90 days
5.2%30 days
233P50 · ms
293P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 88 ms, slowest 293 ms, most recent 88 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
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())

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Endpoints · 3DyingFULL DOCS ↗
Dying — error rate climbing on GET /search?term=beatles&limit=1233 mschecked 24 min ago
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

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

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 (Retry-After: 29s).

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?

As of our last scheduled check, iTunes Search is dying with 6.0% uptime over 90 days and a 233 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.