💿 Discogs Scraper — Vinyl, Music Releases & Labels

Extract music data from Discogs — the world's largest catalog of vinyl, CDs and music releases — as clean, structured data. Search the Discogs database by keyword, type, genre or year and get title, year, country, genre, style, format, label, catalog number, barcode and cover image for every result. It's keyless, fast and reliable — no proxy or browser needed. Built for record collectors, music data tools and discography databases. Export to JSON/CSV/Excel, run on a schedule, call via API, or connect to Make, Zapier or n8n.

🎵 What is the Discogs Scraper?

It turns any Discogs database search into a structured dataset. Give it a search term (like daft punk or nirvana nevermind), choose what to search for (release, master, artist or label), and optionally filter by genre and year — it returns every matching result with full metadata and cover art. Because it queries the public Discogs database API and flattens the paged JSON into clean rows, you get tidy, ready-to-use records without touching the raw API. It paginates automatically and respects Discogs' rate limits.

Every result arrives with the fields collectors and music apps actually need: the catalog number and barcode to identify an exact pressing, the country and year to tell editions apart, genre and style arrays for filtering, the format breakdown (Vinyl, LP, CD, Album) and both thumbnail and full-size cover art. Each record also carries its Discogs id, the master_id that groups all versions of a recording, and direct links to the Discogs page and the API resource — so you can drill deeper whenever you need to. Billing is per result, so empty searches cost nothing.

What data does it extract?

• title and id
• type — release / master / artist / label
• year and country
• genre and style
• format — Vinyl, LP, CD, Album, …
• label and catno (catalog number)
• barcode and master_id
• thumb and cover_image
• url and resource_url
• search_query and scraped_at

⬇️ Input

Search the Discogs database by keyword, with optional filters:

Field	Description
searchQuery	Artist, album or release keyword, e.g. daft punk, nirvana nevermind
type	What to search for — release, master, artist or label
genre	Optional genre filter, e.g. Electronic, Rock, Jazz
year	Optional release year filter, e.g. 1997
maxResults	Maximum results to return (1–10000)

Example input

{
  "searchQuery": "daft punk",
  "type": "release",
  "genre": "Electronic",
  "year": "2001",
  "maxResults": 50
}

⬆️ Output

Every result is one clean row (view as a table, or export JSON / CSV / Excel):

{
  "id": 7445961,
  "type": "release",
  "title": "Daft Punk - Discovery",
  "year": "2001",
  "country": "Europe",
  "genre": ["Electronic"],
  "style": ["House", "Disco"],
  "format": ["Vinyl", "LP", "Album"],
  "label": ["Virgin"],
  "catno": "7243 8 49606 1 1",
  "barcode": ["724384960612"],
  "master_id": 23838,
  "thumb": "https://i.discogs.com/.../R-150.jpg",
  "cover_image": "https://i.discogs.com/.../R.jpg",
  "url": "https://www.discogs.com/release/7445961",
  "resource_url": "https://api.discogs.com/releases/7445961",
  "search_query": "daft punk",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-26T15:30:00+00:00"
}

💡 Use cases

• 🎶 Record collecting: track pressings, variants, catalog numbers and barcodes for any artist or album.
• 📊 Marketplace analytics: analyse releases by genre, year, country and format to spot trends.
• 🗂️ Music databases: build and enrich discographies with clean, structured metadata.
• 🖼️ Data enrichment: append release details and cover art to your own catalog or app.

❓ FAQ

How do I search the Discogs database? Enter a searchQuery, choose a type (release, master, artist or label), optionally add a genre and year, then Run. You get structured results with title, year, country, genre, format, label, catalog number and cover art.

What's the difference between a release and a master? A release is one specific pressing/version, while a master groups all versions of the same recording. Set type to master to dedupe across pressings, or release for every individual edition.

Can I search by genre or year only? You can combine a keyword with genre and year filters. A searchQuery (or genre) is required to run — keyword plus genre and year together gives the most precise results.

Do I need an API key? No. It's keyless — just enter a search query. There's no Discogs account or token to set up.

Do I need a proxy? No. It calls the public Discogs database API directly, so no proxy or browser is required.

Does it include cover art? Yes — each result includes both a thumb (small) and cover_image (full-size) URL where available.

How many results can it return? Up to your maxResults cap (max 10000); it paginates the API automatically and waits between pages to respect Discogs' rate limit (~25 requests/min).

Can I get artists and labels too? Yes — set type to artist or label to search those instead of releases.

Can I run it on a schedule or via API? Yes — schedule recurring runs in Apify, call it via the API/SDK, or connect it to Make, Zapier or n8n.

How do I identify a specific pressing? Use the catno (catalog number), barcode, country and year fields together — they pin down an exact edition, while master_id links it back to all other versions of the same recording.

Is scraping Discogs legal? It uses the public Discogs database API to retrieve publicly available metadata. Use the data only for lawful purposes and respect Discogs' terms and rate limits.

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