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Musicbrainz Lookup Artist Example

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Musicbrainz Lookup Artist Example is an example object payload from MusicBrainz, with 3 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

operationrequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "operation": "lookupArtist",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/artist/5b11f4ce-a62d-471e-81fc-a69a8278c7da",
    "headers": {
      "User-Agent": "ApiEvangelistDemo/1.0 ( contact@example.com )",
      "Accept": "application/json"
    },
    "parameters": {
      "inc": "aliases+tags+ratings",
      "fmt": "json"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/json; charset=utf-8"
    },
    "body": {
      "id": "5b11f4ce-a62d-471e-81fc-a69a8278c7da",
      "name": "Nirvana",
      "sort-name": "Nirvana",
      "type": "Group",
      "type-id": "e431f5f6-b5d2-343d-8b36-72607fffb74b",
      "country": "US",
      "area": {
        "id": "489ce91b-6658-3307-9877-795b68554c98",
        "name": "United States",
        "sort-name": "United States",
        "iso-3166-1-codes": ["US"]
      },
      "disambiguation": "90s US grunge band",
      "isnis": ["0000000123486830"],
      "ipis": [],
      "life-span": {
        "begin": "1988-01",
        "end": "1994-04-05",
        "ended": true
      },
      "aliases": [
        {"name": "ニルヴァーナ", "sort-name": "ニルヴァーナ", "locale": "ja", "type": "Artist name", "primary": true}
      ],
      "tags": [
        {"name": "grunge", "count": 17},
        {"name": "rock", "count": 12},
        {"name": "alternative rock", "count": 9}
      ],
      "rating": {
        "value": 4.55,
        "votes-count": 71
      }
    }
  }
}