🎵 TheAudioDB Music Scraper

🚀 Pull rich artist and album metadata from TheAudioDB in one run. Search Radiohead and you get the full profile plus 43 albums, each with cover art, release year, genre, and label.

TheAudioDB is a community maintained open database of music metadata covering hundreds of thousands of artists and albums. This Actor turns any list of artist names into clean, structured records. For every name you provide it returns the artist profile (genre, country, formed year, biography, social links, official artwork) and the complete album discography (title, year, genre, label, cover thumbnail, review score).

Coverage spans every major and independent artist catalogued on TheAudioDB, from chart toppers to niche acts, with high resolution thumbnails, logos, and banners attached to most records. Because the data comes from the public TheAudioDB API, there is no login and no proxy needed.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Music app and bot developers	Enrich a catalog with artist and album metadata
Data analysts and researchers	Build music trend and genre datasets
Playlist and content curators	Populate artist pages with art and bios
Media and entertainment teams	Cross reference releases by year, genre, and label

📋 What the TheAudioDB Scraper does

This Actor accepts one or more artist names and queries TheAudioDB for each. It returns two kinds of records, both flagged with a recordType field so you can split them easily:

• Artist records with name, genre, style, mood, country, formed year, member count, label, biography, website, social handles, and official thumbnail, logo, and banner images.
• Album records with title, parent artist, release year, genre, style, label, description, review score, and cover art.

You can toggle artist profiles and albums independently, cap the number of records, and supply your own TheAudioDB key for higher rate limits. The public test key works out of the box.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: artist, country, formedYear, genre, imageUrl, recordType, results, scrapedAt, sourceUrl, title, yearReleased. 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 for a free Apify account using this link.
2. Open the TheAudioDB Music Scraper in the Apify Console.
3. Enter one or more artist names in searchArtists and choose whether to include artist profiles, albums, or both.
4. Click Start and watch records stream into the dataset.
5. Browse the results table or pull them through the Apify API into your own app.

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection.

⚠️ Disclaimer: This is an independent tool, not affiliated with TheAudioDB. Only publicly available data is collected.

🆘 Need Help?

If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.

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