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Musicbrainz Search Recordings Example

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Musicbrainz Search Recordings 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

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{
  "operation": "browseOrSearchRecordings",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/recording",
    "headers": {
      "User-Agent": "ApiEvangelistDemo/1.0 ( contact@example.com )",
      "Accept": "application/json"
    },
    "parameters": {
      "query": "recording:\"smells like teen spirit\" AND artist:nirvana",
      "limit": 2,
      "fmt": "json"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": {
      "created": "2026-05-29T12:00:00.000Z",
      "count": 412,
      "offset": 0,
      "recordings": [
        {
          "id": "fcbcdc39-8851-4efc-a02a-ab0e13be224f",
          "score": 100,
          "title": "Smells Like Teen Spirit",
          "length": 301920,
          "video": false,
          "artist-credit": [
            {
              "name": "Nirvana",
              "artist": {
                "id": "5b11f4ce-a62d-471e-81fc-a69a8278c7da",
                "name": "Nirvana",
                "sort-name": "Nirvana",
                "disambiguation": "90s US grunge band"
              }
            }
          ],
          "first-release-date": "1991-09-10",
          "releases": [
            {
              "id": "76df3287-6cda-33eb-8e9a-044b5e15ffdd",
              "title": "Nevermind",
              "status": "Official",
              "date": "1991-09-24",
              "country": "US"
            }
          ],
          "isrcs": ["USGF19102751"]
        },
        {
          "id": "5e6e3a5e-9c0e-4d2f-9e8f-7c0a2b9a1234",
          "score": 99,
          "title": "Smells Like Teen Spirit",
          "length": 305000,
          "video": false,
          "artist-credit": [{"name": "Nirvana", "artist": {"id": "5b11f4ce-a62d-471e-81fc-a69a8278c7da", "name": "Nirvana"}}],
          "first-release-date": "1992-12-15"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}