🎵 Bandcamp Music Scraper

🚀 Export Bandcamp albums and tracks in seconds. Browse any genre or tag and collect title, artist, price, currency, genre, tags, release date, track count, and cover art. No API key, no login, no manual searching.

The Bandcamp Music Scraper browses Bandcamp's discover feed by genre tag and returns 12 structured fields per album, including the artist name, price, currency, genre, user-defined tags, release date, track count, and a direct link to the album page. Cover art URLs are included so you can render thumbnails without a separate request.

Bandcamp hosts millions of independent albums, EPs, and tracks across hundreds of subgenres, and its discover API is the same internal endpoint the website uses to power its browsing experience. This Actor taps that feed directly, so you get the same results you would see if you browsed by tag, in top-selling or newest-first order, with no pagination friction.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Music researchers, playlist curators, A&R teams, indie label analysts, journalists, data scientists, recommendation-engine developers	Genre trend analysis, indie artist discovery, pricing benchmarks, new release monitoring, music catalog enrichment

📋 What the Bandcamp Music Scraper does

Five discovery workflows in a single run:

• 🎸 Tag browsing. Enter any genre tag (ambient, jazz, punk, lo-fi, classical, k-pop, and hundreds more) to browse the full Bandcamp catalog for that style.
• 🏆 Top sort. Pull the best-selling / most-popular albums in a tag to benchmark pricing and discover leading artists.
• 🆕 New sort. Pull the most recently released albums in a tag for new-release monitoring and trend detection.
• 💰 Pricing data. Collect digital album prices and currencies from dozens of countries to build pricing benchmarks.
• 🏷️ Tag cloud. Each album record includes the full list of user-applied tags, giving you a multi-dimensional genre signal beyond the primary tag.

💡 Why it matters: Bandcamp is the leading platform for independent music. Its catalog captures indie, experimental, and niche genres months before they surface on streaming platforms. Scraping by tag gives you an early signal on emerging sounds, pricing norms, and which artists are gaining traction.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: artist, currency, genre, imageUrl, numTracks, price, releaseDate, results, scrapedAt, tags, title, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Bandcamp Music Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Enter a genre tag (e.g. "ambient"), choose a sort order, and set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Bandcamp or its parent company. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available data is collected.

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