Discogs Scraper — Vinyl Records, Music Releases, Artists & Labels Data API

An unofficial Discogs scraper and structured music discography API in a single Apify actor. Search the Discogs database, pull an artist's full discography, a record label's entire catalog, every vinyl pressing of an album, and complete release / master / artist / label details — powered directly by the public Discogs API. No API key, no login, no headless browser — just fast HTTP and clean, flat JSON you can export to CSV, Excel or JSON.

This Discogs API alternative is built for record collectors, vinyl resellers, music-data teams, catalog managers and AI agents who need reliable, structured Discogs music data on demand. Eight modes share one input form, and every result is tagged with _mode so you can mix modes in a single dataset and filter later.

What you get

• Artist discographies — an artist's complete list of releases and masters, paginated through the full catalog (hundreds or thousands of rows per artist).
• Label catalogs — a record label's entire back catalog with catalog numbers, formats and release years.
• Master versions / pressings — every pressing, reissue and repress of an album (the "master"), with country, format, label and catalog number — ideal for vinyl variant research.
• Search — free-text search across releases, masters, artists and labels, returning genres, styles, formats, labels, catalog numbers, barcodes and marketplace stats.
• Release details — title, artist, year, country, genres[], styles[], formats, label, catno, community have/want, ratingAverage, lowestPrice, numForSale and cover image.
• Master details — album-level title, artist, year, genres[], styles[], mainRelease, numVersions, lowestPrice and cover art.
• Artist details — name, realName, profile, aliases[], members[], groups[] and external urls[].
• Label details — name, profile, contactInfo, parentLabel, sublabels[] and urls[].
• Universal — clean discogsUrl, resourceUrl, plus _mode and scrapedAt (ISO 8601) on every item.

Export everything as CSV, JSON, Excel (XLSX), HTML, RSS or JSON Lines. Four pre-built dataset views (Overview, Releases, Artists, Labels) let you slice the data with zero post-processing.

The 8 modes

Mode	What it returns
artistReleases	An artist's full discography, paginated (highest volume) — default
labelReleases	A record label's complete catalog, paginated
masterVersions	Every pressing / version of an album (master), paginated
search	Free-text search across releases, masters, artists and labels
release	Full details for one or many release IDs (batch)
master	Full details for one or many master (album) IDs (batch)
artist	Artist profile details for one or many artist IDs (batch)
label	Record-label details for one or many label IDs (batch)

Use cases

• Record collectors — export an artist's or label's complete discography, track down every vinyl pressing of a favorite album, and build a want-list dataset with have/want demand signals.
• Music resellers & price research — pull lowestPrice, numForSale and community have/want counts to spot in-demand records, price your inventory, and monitor a label's catalog for flips.
• Catalog enrichment — enrich your own music or e-commerce catalog with Discogs metadata: genres, styles, formats, catalog numbers, release years and cover art via the release and master modes.
• Music analytics & ML — bulk-ingest releases, genres, styles and marketplace stats to train recommenders, chart genre trends by decade, or analyze a label's output.
• AI agents & RAG — wrap the actor as a tool so an LLM can answer "list every pressing of Nevermind" or "what has Planet E released?" and embed the structured results.

How to use

1. Open the actor and pick a Mode.
2. Fill the fields that mode needs — the input form shows which apply:
   • artistReleases / artist: set an artistId like 108713.
   • labelReleases / label: set a labelId like 1.
   • masterVersions / master: set a masterId like 13814.
   • release: set a releaseId like 1018 (or a batch).
   • search: set query (and optionally searchType).
3. Optionally set maxResults (drives pagination for the list modes).
4. Run the actor and export results as CSV, JSON or Excel — or pull them via the Apify API.

IDs are just the numbers in a Discogs URL. discogs.com/artist/108713-Nickelback → artist 108713; discogs.com/master/13814-Nirvana-Nevermind → master 13814; discogs.com/label/1-Planet-E → label 1.

Example — pull an artist's full discography:

{
  "mode": "artistReleases",
  "artistId": "108713",
  "maxResults": 300
}

Example — every pressing / version of an album:

{
  "mode": "masterVersions",
  "masterId": "13814",
  "maxResults": 500
}

Call it from your stack via the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items), the JavaScript/Python clients, or no-code tools like Make, n8n and Zapier.

FAQ

Can I scrape Discogs without an API key?

Yes. This is an unofficial Discogs scraper that reads publicly available data through the public Discogs API. You only need an Apify account — no Discogs API key, no OAuth token, no login. (Discogs simply requires a descriptive User-Agent header, which the actor sets for you.)

Is this a Discogs API or a Discogs API alternative?

Both, effectively. It works as an unofficial Discogs API and a practical Discogs data API alternative: you send structured input and get flat JSON back, with pagination, rate-limit handling and CSV/Excel export handled for you — no token management required.

How do I export a vinyl collection or discography to CSV or Excel?

Run artistReleases, labelReleases or masterVersions, then download the dataset as CSV, JSON, Excel (XLSX), HTML, RSS or JSON Lines from the run page, or pull it via the Apify API. This makes it a simple Discogs data export and vinyl catalog tool.

How do I get an artist's full discography data?

Pick artistReleases mode and pass the artistId (the number in a discogs.com/artist/… URL). The actor paginates the artist's entire release list — titles, roles, years, formats, catalog numbers and demand stats — up to your maxResults.

How do I get a record label's catalog?

Use labelReleases with the labelId. It paginates the label's full catalog with catalog numbers, formats, artists and release years — perfect for label discographies and reissue tracking.

How do I find every pressing or version of an album?

Use masterVersions with the album's masterId. Discogs groups all pressings under a "master"; this mode returns each version with its country, format, label and catalog number — ideal for vinyl variant and reissue research.

How do I get Discogs marketplace / price data?

Release and master details include lowestPrice and numForSale, and most list results include community have and want counts. Use these to gauge demand and price records without scraping listing pages.

How do I get Discogs IDs?

Every ID is the number in a Discogs URL: discogs.com/release/1018 → 1018, discogs.com/master/13814 → 13814, discogs.com/artist/108713 → 108713, discogs.com/label/1 → 1. You can also run search first to discover IDs, then feed them into the detail or list modes.

Does keyless Discogs search work?

Yes — the public search endpoint returns results without a token. Keyless access is rate-limited to roughly 25 requests per minute, so the actor spaces requests (~2.5s) and retries with backoff on HTTP 429. Large pulls therefore run slowly by design; the ID-based list modes (artistReleases, labelReleases, masterVersions) are the most efficient way to fetch high volumes.

What data fields are included?

Depending on the mode: id, type, title, artist, year, country, genres[], styles[], format, label, catno, have, want, ratingAverage, lowestPrice, numForSale, thumb/coverImage, resourceUrl and a ready-to-open discogsUrl — plus _mode and scrapedAt on every row.

Support

Open an issue on the actor page for bugs, feature requests, or custom modifications. Responses typically within 24 hours.

📝 Changelog

2026-07-01

• Initial release: eight Discogs modes (artist discography, label catalog, master versions, free-text search, and release / master / artist / label details) over the public Discogs API — no key, no browser.