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Genius List Artist Songs Example

MusicLyricsAnnotationsCrowdsourcedReference DataPublic APIs

Genius List Artist Songs Example is an example object payload from Genius, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://api.genius.com/artists/16775/songs?sort=popularity&per_page=5&page=1",
    "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_CLIENT_ACCESS_TOKEN" }
  },
  "response": {
    "meta": { "status": 200 },
    "response": {
      "songs": [
        { "id": 81159, "title": "Hotline Bling", "full_title": "Hotline Bling by Drake", "url": "https://genius.com/Drake-hotline-bling-lyrics", "annotation_count": 213 },
        { "id": 90235, "title": "God's Plan",    "full_title": "God's Plan by Drake",    "url": "https://genius.com/Drake-gods-plan-lyrics",    "annotation_count": 187 }
      ],
      "next_page": 2
    }
  }
}

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