🎵 ALLMUSIC Scraper

❓ What is ALLMUSIC Scraper?

The ALLMUSIC Scraper is a web scraper that extracts music-related data from AllMusic, including artists, albums, and songs. It automates data collection and returns structured results that can be used for analysis, APIs, or applications.

It is designed for music data extraction, artist and album discovery, metadata analysis, and building structured datasets of music entities from AllMusic.

🌍 Why scrape ALLMUSIC?

AllMusic hosts a rich database of music content, including artists, albums, songs, and genres across different eras and styles. Scraping AllMusic allows users to collect structured information about music entities in one dataset, making it easier to explore the music ecosystem at scale.

Scraping AllMusic allows you to:

• Discover artists, albums, and songs across genres and categories

• Collect structured metadata such as release dates, genres, ratings, and descriptions

• Analyze musical styles, trends, and discographies

• Build datasets of music entities for applications, APIs, or research

• Identify relationships between artists, albums, and songs

• Conduct music market research and content analysis

This is especially useful for developers, analysts, music platforms, and researchers.

📥 Input

{
  "maxItems": 5,
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.allmusic.com/search/all/geoff"
    }
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

💼 Why US Residential Proxies?

From a business standpoint, this default is deliberate and essential to ensure consistent data quality and reliability:

Access to Complete Content: Many platforms (including AllMusic) customize or limit content based on geographic location. By using US-based IPs, we ensure consistent access to the full, intended dataset—minimizing the risk of missing, restricted, or altered results.

📤 Output

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bessie-smith-mn0000054707",
    "type": "artist",
    "name": "Bessie Smith (followed by 145 users)",
    "bio": "The first Queen of the Blues, a tremendously powerful vocalist who was the genre's first recording star.",
    "active_dates": "Active 1910s - 1930s",
    "birth_date": "April 15, 1894 in Chattanooga, TN",
    "genre": "Blues, Jazz",
    "styles": "Classic Female Blues, Early Jazz, Vaudeville Blues",
    "memberOf": "",
    "image": "https://fastly-s3.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000054707/400/Ccn1A3kfiZPix-AZPYh8Bd_M69_UI9rrJSVvWL2-yAg=.jpg",
    "highlighted_songs": [
      {
        "name": "Spencer Williams",
        "link": "https://www.allmusic.com/artist/spencer-williams-mn0000005340"
      },
    ],
    "moods": [
      "Confident",
      "Earthy",
      "Exuberant",
      "Raucous",
      "Rollicking",
      "Boisterous",
      "Carefree",
    ],
    "themes": [
      "Empowerment",
      "Feeling Blue",
      "Freedom",
    ],
    "related_artists": [
      {
        "name": "Big Mama Thornton",
        "link": "https://www.allmusic.com/artist/big-mama-thornton-mn0000762288"
      },
      {
        "name": "Bonnie Raitt",
        "link": "https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bonnie-raitt-mn0000096613"
      },
      {
        "name": "Diana Ross",
        "link": "https://www.allmusic.com/artist/diana-ross-mn0000594665"
      }
    ],
    "compositions": [
      {
        "year": "",
        "title": "Back Water Blues, song",
        "duration": "03:21",
        "genre": "Vocal Music",
        "workType": ""
      },
      {
        "year": "",
        "title": "Lost Your Head Blues",
        "duration": "02:56",
        "genre": "Vocal Music",
        "workType": ""
      },
      {
        "year": "1929",
        "title": "Wasted Life Blues",
        "duration": "06:53",
        "genre": "Vocal Music",
        "workType": ""
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "url": "https://www.allmusic.com/album/screamin-and-hollerin-the-blues-the-worlds-of-charley-patton-mw0000014284",
    "type": "album",
    "name": "Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton",
    "cover": "https://fastly-s3.allmusic.com/release/mr0000290914/front/400/_aqNqJedDQT9lT_RN4wWiwSijaXJlYnq0St31qpAJWo=.jpg",
    "artist": {
      "name": "Charley Patton",
      "link": "https://www.allmusic.com/artist/charley-patton-mn0000166058"
    },
    "release_date": "October 23, 2001",
    "duration": "06:47:45",
    "genres": [
      {
        "name": "Blues",
        "link": "https://www.allmusic.com/genre/blues-ma0000002467"
      }
    ],
    "styles": [
      {
        "name": "Acoustic Blues",
        "link": "https://www.allmusic.com/style/acoustic-blues-ma0000012058"
      },
      {
        "name": "Delta Blues",
        "link": "https://www.allmusic.com/style/delta-blues-ma0000002549"
      },
    ],
    "review": "Perhaps the most sumptuous, nay incredible, box set package ever devised for a blues artist, this lavish production contains seven CDs that not only contain everything Patton recorded as a soloist, but a ton of peripheral tracks to which he contributed or was associated.",
    "track_listing": [
      {
        "title": "Bye Bye Blues",
        "composer": "Tommy Johnson",
        "performer": "Charley Patton",
        "feat": "Tommy Johnson",
        "duration": "03:04",
        "streams": [
          {
            "name": "Search on Amazon",
            "link": "https://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=song: \"Bye%20Bye%20Blues\" by \"Tommy%20Johnson, Charley%20Patton\"&tag=allmusicdotcom-20"
          },
          {
            "name": "Search on Spotify",
            "link": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Bye+Bye+Blues%20artists%3ATommy+Johnson+%2F+Charley+Patton"
          },
          {
            "name": "Search for this song on Apple Music",
            "link": "https://srv.tunefindforfans.com/showads/track/srvclk.php?aid=100006320&artist=Tommy+Johnson+%2F+Charley+Patton&song=Bye+Bye+Blues"
          }
        ]
      },
    ],
    "similar_albums": [
      {
        "album_name": "The Last Giants of Mississippi Blues",
        "artist": "Jack Owens",
        "link": "https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-last-giants-of-mississippi-blues-mw0000092847"
      },
      {
        "album_name": "Georgia Sea Island Songs",
        "artist": "Georgia SeaBessie Jones & The Georgia Sea Island Singers",
        "link": "https://www.allmusic.com/album/georgia-sea-island-songs-mw0000072365"
      },
    ],
    "moods": [
      "Bravado",
      "Dramatic",
      "Earnest",
    ],
    "themes": [
      "Hanging Out",
      "Heartache",
    ]
  },
  {
    "url": "https://www.allmusic.com/song/the-thrill-is-gone-mt0007577184",
    "type": "song",
    "name": "The Thrill Is Gone",
    "artist": "B.B. King",
    "composer": "Rick DarnellRoy Hawkins",
    "release_year": "1969",
    "genre": [
      "Blues",
      "R&B"
    ],
    "styles": [
      "Modern Electric Blues",
      "Soul-Blues",
      "Smooth Soul",
      "Soul"
    ],
    "moods": [
      {
        "name": "Lush (9)",
        "link": "https://www.allmusic.com/mood/lush-xa0000001037"
      },
      {
        "name": "Nocturnal (9)",
        "link": "https://www.allmusic.com/mood/nocturnal-xa0000001054"
      },
      {
        "name": "Sensual (9)",
        "link": "https://www.allmusic.com/mood/sensual-xa0000000764"
      },
    ],
    "themes": [
      {
        "name": "Breakup (9)",
        "link": "https://www.allmusic.com/theme/breakup-ma0000004248"
      },
      {
        "name": "Divorce (9)",
        "link": "https://www.allmusic.com/theme/divorce-ma0000006302"
      },
      {
        "name": "Feeling Blue (9)",
        "link": "https://www.allmusic.com/theme/feeling-blue-ma0000004251"
      },
    ]
  },
]

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Image Credits: AllMusic.com