Creative Commons Music Search - $0.09 per 1000 results

Creative Commons music search: find free-licensed music and audio (CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0, public domain) on Wikimedia Commons — and on Jamendo with your own free API key — with artist, licence, duration and direct audio file URL.

What does it do?

• Search Wikimedia Commons audio files via the official MediaWiki API.
• Licence name, licence URL and attribution flag for every track.
• Duration, MIME type, size, date and categories.
• Optional Jamendo search with your own client id.

Use cases

• Royalty-free soundtracks for videos and podcasts.
• Datasets of licensed audio for research.
• Attribution lists for content teams.

Input

Field	Description
queries	e.g. piano, jazz, birdsong
sources	jamendo requires your own free client id.
maxItemsPerQuery	Example: 30
jamendoClientId	Optional, from devportal.jamendo.com

Example input:

{}

Output

Real output (first items of a run on 26 Oct 2026):

[
  {
    "source": "wikimedia-commons",
    "id": "81097371",
    "title": "Outing- Chinese kids' Piano Song - Junjun's edition (selected from real piano lesson)",
    "artist": "Jason M. C., Han",
    "description": "This sound-file was a real classroom recording of my and Ms Song's (my mother's) piano pupil - Junjun 's version of 'Outing' in the music textbook of Chinese National Grading Test. After getting the permission of him and his mother in the educational privacy, I can submit his good version. Junjun was only a 6-years-old boy, with his full name - Xi Jun, Zhou (Direct Chinese translation: A handsome boy from an excellent family who is good at intelligently thinking). That's quite right that Junjun ",
    "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
    "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0",
    "attributionRequired": true,
    "audioUrl": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Outing-_Chinese_kids%27_Piano_Song_-_Junjun%27s_edition_%28selected_from_real_piano_lesson%29.ogg",
    "pageUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Outing-_Chinese_kids%27_Piano_Song_-_Junjun%27s_edition_(selected_from_real_piano_lesson).ogg",
    "mimeType": "application/ogg",
    "durationSec": 81.2,
    "fileSizeBytes": 962651,
    "date": "2019-08-07",
    "tags": [
      "Music of China",
      "Children's songs",
      "Piano education",
      "Self-published work",
      "Piano education in music laboratory",
      "Wikiversity WikiProjects"
    ],
    "query": "piano"
  },
  {
    "source": "wikimedia-commons",
    "id": "80317990",
    "title": "Cole Porter’s “I Love You” - JMC, Han's Piano Edition",
    "artist": "Jason M. C., Han",
    "description": "Cole Porter's I Love You was a well-known Jazz &blues with the specially sorrow missing in love... as a romanticism piece... Following Goldsmiths' Jazz standards, I re-edited it into piano, especially the running of major or minor seventh arpeggios (including flatten 5th and flatten 9th, sometimes) ... in left hand, its rhythm and matching way with melodic right hand... Meanwhile, I gave pedalling to bass for making a play-along effect and somehow, polyphonic layers... I like this piano task",
    "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
    "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0",
    "attributionRequired": true,
    "audioUrl": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Cole_Porter%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%9CI_Love_You%E2%80%9D_-_JMC%2C_Han%27s_Piano_Edition.ogg",
    "pageUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cole_Porter%E2%80%99s_%E2%80%9CI_Love_You%E2%80%9D_-_JMC,_Han%27s_Piano_Edition.ogg",
    "mimeType": "application/ogg",
    "durationSec": 65.2,
    "fileSizeBytes": 766004,
    "date": "2019-07-11",
    "tags": [
      "Cole Porter",
      "Impressionist paintings",
      "Piano education",
      "Self-published work",
      "Jazz piano performances",
      "Piano education in music laboratory",
      "Wikiversity WikiProjects"
    ],
    "query": "piano"
  }
]

Export the results as JSON, CSV or Excel, read them through the API, or send them to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n or webhooks. You can also run this Actor from AI agents through the Apify MCP server.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.09 per 1,000 tracks plus $0.00005 per run start. There is no extra platform usage charge.

FAQ

Can I use the music commercially? It depends on each file's licence; always check licenseUrl and give attribution.

Why only Wikimedia by default? Jamendo requires a free client id that you provide.

Do you download audio? No, only metadata and links.

Do I need a login or API key? No. It uses the source's public API; you only need an Apify account.

Can AI agents use it? Yes. Call it through the Apify API, or from Claude, Cursor or any MCP client via the Apify MCP server.

Data source and license

Sources: Wikimedia Commons via the MediaWiki API (each file has its own free licence) and optional Jamendo API with your own key. Not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation or Jamendo.

This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the data source. You are responsible for using the data in line with the source's license and terms.