MusicBrainz Music Metadata – Artists, Releases, Recordings, ISRC

Search MusicBrainz for artists, releases, recordings, labels or works: MBIDs, dates, countries, tags, ISRCs, barcodes and durations.

Why this actor

• All entity types with polite rate limiting built in.
• Pay only for results: $0.50 per 1,000 entitys, no start fee, failed lookups are free.
• Robust: automatic retries with exponential backoff, respects Retry-After, per-item error rows instead of crashed runs.
• Clean, flat JSON/CSV/Excel output ready for Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, n8n, Clay, or the Apify API.

Use cases

• Music catalog enrichment
• Royalty/ISRC matching
• Music apps

Input

Field	Type	Description
queries	array	Names or Lucene queries (artist:radiohead AND country:GB).
entity	string	What to search.
maxPerQuery	integer	Results per query.
maxItems	integer	0 = no limit. Caps cost.

Example input:

{
  "queries": [
    "Radiohead",
    "Daft Punk"
  ],
  "entity": "artist",
  "maxPerQuery": 3
}

Output

Each dataset item looks like this (real sample from a test run, long fields trimmed):

{
  "query": "Radiohead",
  "entity": "artist",
  "mbid": "a74b1b7f-71a5-4011-9441-d0b5e4122711",
  "name": "Radiohead",
  "score": 100,
  "type": "Group",
  "country": "GB",
  "date": "1991",
  "ended": null,
  "artist": null,
  "disambiguation": null,
  "tags": [
    "rock",
    "electronic",
    "post-rock",
    "\u2026"
  ],
  "lengthSeconds": null,
  "isrcs": null,
  "barcode": null,
  "status": null,
  "url": "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a74b1b7f-71a5-4011-9441-d0b5e4122711",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-15T00:01:06+00:00"
}

Rows that could not be processed contain an error field and are not charged.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: $0.0005 per entity (= $0.50 / 1,000). Use Max results to cap spend. Apify's free plan credit covers thousands of results per month.

Integrations & API

Run on a schedule in Apify Console, call via the Apify API / Python & JS clients, or connect to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack and webhooks. Works as a tool for AI agents via Apify MCP.

FAQ

Is this an official tool? No. It is an independent actor and is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by the data source or any trademark owner named here.

Is it legal? The actor only reads publicly available data from public endpoints, without logins, and does not bypass paywalls or access controls. You are responsible for using the data in line with applicable laws (e.g. GDPR) and the source sites' terms.

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