Genius Account API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Genius Account API
  description: 'The Genius API exposes the Genius/Rap Genius crowdsourced music knowledge

    base — songs, artists, albums, annotations, and referents. Responses are

    JSON. The API does NOT serve raw lyric text directly (those must be scraped

    from the public song page); it returns rich song, artist, album, annotation

    metadata, scoring, and the URLs needed to locate lyrics on genius.com.

    '
  version: 1.0.0
  termsOfService: https://genius.com/static/terms
  contact:
    name: Genius API Support
    url: https://docs.genius.com/
  license:
    name: Genius API Terms of Use
    url: https://genius.com/static/terms
  x-generated-from: documentation
  x-last-validated: '2026-05-29'
servers:
- url: https://api.genius.com
  description: Production Genius API
tags:
- name: Account
  description: Authenticated user account.
paths:
  /account:
    get:
      tags:
      - Account
      operationId: getAccount
      summary: Get Current Account
      description: Returns details about the authenticated user. Requires the `me` scope.
      security:
      - GeniusOAuth2:
        - me
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/TextFormat'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Account details
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AccountResponse'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
      x-microcks-operation:
        delay: 0
        dispatcher: FALLBACK
components:
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Missing or invalid access token.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
  schemas:
    AccountResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        meta:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta'
        response:
          type: object
          properties:
            user:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/User'
    Meta:
      type: object
      description: Wrapper metadata included on every response.
      properties:
        status:
          type: integer
          description: HTTP status code echoed in the payload.
          example: 200
        message:
          type: string
          description: Optional human-readable status message.
      required:
      - status
    User:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: integer
        login:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
        about_me_summary:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        avatar:
          type: object
          properties:
            tiny:
              type: object
              properties:
                url:
                  type: string
                  format: uri
            thumb:
              type: object
              properties:
                url:
                  type: string
                  format: uri
            small:
              type: object
              properties:
                url:
                  type: string
                  format: uri
            medium:
              type: object
              properties:
                url:
                  type: string
                  format: uri
        header_image_url:
          type: string
          format: uri
        human_readable_role_for_display:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        iq:
          type: integer
        identity_provider:
          type: string
          nullable: true
        roles_for_display:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        url:
          type: string
          format: uri
        api_path:
          type: string
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        meta:
          allOf:
          - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta'
          - type: object
            properties:
              error:
                type: string
                description: Short machine error code.
                example: not_found
              error_description:
                type: string
                description: Human-readable error description.
      required:
      - meta
  parameters:
    TextFormat:
      name: text_format
      in: query
      description: Format for textual fields in the response.
      schema:
        type: string
        enum:
        - dom
        - html
        - markdown
        - plain
        default: dom
  securitySchemes:
    GeniusOAuth2:
      type: oauth2
      description: 'Genius uses OAuth 2.0 with the authorization-code flow. Apps are

        registered at https://genius.com/api-clients.

        '
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: https://api.genius.com/oauth/authorize
          tokenUrl: https://api.genius.com/oauth/token
          scopes:
            me: Access account profile of the authenticated user.
            create_annotation: Create new annotations.
            manage_annotation: Edit or delete the user's annotations.
            vote: Upvote, downvote, or remove a vote on annotations.
    ClientAccessToken:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: client_access_token
      description: 'Client-only access token issued at app registration. Sufficient for

        read-only endpoints (search, songs, artists, albums, annotations,

        referents, web_pages/lookup).

        '
externalDocs:
  description: Official Genius API documentation
  url: https://docs.genius.com/