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TheAudioDB

Artist, album and track metadata with artwork

🎬 MediaDYINGchecked 8h ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ?

TheAudioDB is a community music-metadata database with the free test key `2` in the path. Search artists, list albums and tracks, and pull banners, logos and biographies. Sister site to TheSportsDB and TheMealDB.

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 83 · dying
Uptime history
72.5%90 days
15.5%30 days
148P50 · ms
562P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 20 ms, slowest 446 ms, most recent 104 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://www.theaudiodb.com/api/v1/json/2/search.php?s=coldplay

{
  "artists": [
    {
      "idArtist": "111239",
      "strArtist": "Coldplay",
      "strArtistStripped": null,
      "strArtistAlternate": "",
      "strLabel": "Parlophone",
      "idLabel": "45114",
      "intFormedYear": "1996",
      "intBornYear": "1996"
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://www.theaudiodb.com/api/v1/json/2/search.php?s=coldplay"
const res = await fetch("https://www.theaudiodb.com/api/v1/json/2/search.php?s=coldplay");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://www.theaudiodb.com/api/v1/json/2/search.php?s=coldplay")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 3DyingFULL DOCS ↗
Dying — error rate climbing on GET /search.php?s=coldplay148 mschecked 8h ago
GET/search.php?s=coldplayPROBED

Artist, album and track metadata with artwork

GET/search.php?limit=5

Search Php — documented GET route.

GET/search.php?page=1

Search Php — documented GET route.

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.

TheAudioDB: common questions

Is TheAudioDB free to use?

Yes — TheAudioDB 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 TheAudioDB need an API key?

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 You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call TheAudioDB from the browser?

Yes — TheAudioDB returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is TheAudioDB up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, TheAudioDB is dying with 72.5% uptime over 90 days and a 148 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.