Artlist

Artlist is a creative-assets platform for video creators, marketers and brands, licensing royalty-free music, sound effects, stock footage, video templates, LUTs and editing plugins alongside a generative AI toolkit. The Artlist Enterprise API, published at developer.artlist.io, opens the company's music catalog to partner platforms: a Search API for songs, artists and albums with mood/genre/instrument category filters plus BPM, duration, vocal-type and free-text facets, and a Download API that mints signed MP3/WAV asset URLs for licensed assets. Access is OAuth 2.0 client-credentials against an Amazon Cognito authorization server with credentials issued by an account manager, and the developer portal publishes OpenAPI 3.1 definitions, an llms.txt index, an RFC 9727 /.well-known/api-catalog linkset and a hosted MCP server for documentation search.

Artlist publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Album API, Artist API, Downloadable API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Company, Music, Audio, Media, and Stock Media.

Artlist’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, developer console, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, and 26 more developer resources.

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44.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 33/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

AccessSelf serve

2 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Music Audio Media Stock Media Content Licensing Creative Tools Search Generative AI Video

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 44.9/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.9 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 12.7 / 20

Access Clarity 7.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.4 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 33/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Artlist Developer Docs MCP Server

Hosted Model Context Protocol server for the Artlist Enterprise API documentation. Exposes a single anonymous read-only tool, searchDocs, that searches developer.artlist.io and ...

Artlist Album API

The album API from Artlist — 1 operation(s) for album.

Artlist Artist API

The artist API from Artlist — 1 operation(s) for artist.

Artlist Downloadable API

The downloadable API from Artlist — 1 operation(s) for downloadable.

Artlist Song API

The song API from Artlist — 2 operation(s) for song.

Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Search Album API

OPEN COLLECTION

Search Artist API

OPEN COLLECTION

Download Downloadable API

OPEN COLLECTION

Search Song API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Artlist MCP Server

Artlist publishes a hosted, anonymous MCP server for its developer documentation. It is a docs-search server, not a wrapper over the Enterprise API itself: the single tool searc...

MCP SERVER

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Artlist Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Artlist Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Artlist Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Artlist Agentic Access

5 operations

5 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

Console

GettingStarted

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

MCPServer

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

Compliance

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Enterprise

Enterprise

APICatalog

APICatalog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: artlist
name: Artlist
description: 'Artlist is a creative-assets platform for video creators, marketers and brands, licensing royalty-free music,
  sound effects, stock footage, video templates, LUTs and editing plugins alongside a generative AI toolkit. The Artlist Enterprise
  API, published at developer.artlist.io, opens the company''s music catalog to partner platforms: a Search API for songs,
  artists and albums with mood/genre/instrument category filters plus BPM, duration, vocal-type and free-text facets, and
  a Download API that mints signed MP3/WAV asset URLs for licensed assets. Access is OAuth 2.0 client-credentials against
  an Amazon Cognito authorization server with credentials issued by an account manager, and the developer portal publishes
  OpenAPI 3.1 definitions, an llms.txt index, an RFC 9727 /.well-known/api-catalog linkset and a hosted MCP server for documentation
  search.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://fdr-prod-docs-files-public.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/artlist.docs.buildwithfern.com/55c8148c837879232b42a92524952487559fe4e81d1d81b61c162440bdbaf680/docs/assets/artlist-light.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/artlist/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-02'
tags:
- Company
- Music
- Audio
- Media
- Stock Media
- Content Licensing
- Creative Tools
- Search
- Generative AI
- Video
apis:
- aid: artlist:docs-mcp
  name: Artlist Developer Docs MCP Server
  description: Hosted Model Context Protocol server for the Artlist Enterprise API documentation. Exposes a single anonymous
    read-only tool, searchDocs, that searches developer.artlist.io and returns documentation passages with source URLs. Intended
    for AI clients such as Claude Code and Cursor.
  humanURL: https://developer.artlist.io/welcome
  baseURL: https://developer.artlist.io/_mcp/server
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Documentation
  - Artificial Intelligence
  tags_raw:
  - MCP
  - Documentation
  - AI
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/artlist-mcp.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/artlist-tool-crosswalk.yml
- aid: artlist:artlist-album-api
  name: Artlist Album API
  description: The album API from Artlist — 1 operation(s) for album.
  humanURL: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
  baseURL: https://business.artlist.io/search/v1
  tags:
  - Album
  tags_raw:
  - album
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/artlist-album-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.artlist.io/download/downloadable/downloadable-controller-get-downloadable-url
- aid: artlist:artlist-artist-api
  name: Artlist Artist API
  description: The artist API from Artlist — 1 operation(s) for artist.
  humanURL: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
  baseURL: https://business.artlist.io/search/v1
  tags:
  - Artists
  tags_raw:
  - artist
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/artlist-artist-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.artlist.io/download/downloadable/downloadable-controller-get-downloadable-url
- aid: artlist:artlist-downloadable-api
  name: Artlist Downloadable API
  description: The downloadable API from Artlist — 1 operation(s) for downloadable.
  humanURL: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
  baseURL: https://business.artlist.io/search/v1
  tags:
  - downloadable
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/artlist-downloadable-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.artlist.io/download/downloadable/downloadable-controller-get-downloadable-url
- aid: artlist:artlist-song-api
  name: Artlist Song API
  description: The song API from Artlist — 2 operation(s) for song.
  humanURL: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
  baseURL: https://business.artlist.io/search/v1
  tags:
  - Song
  tags_raw:
  - song
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/artlist-song-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.artlist.io/download/downloadable/downloadable-controller-get-downloadable-url
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/artlist-download-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://artlist.io/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.artlist.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.artlist.io/welcome
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
- type: Console
  url: https://developer.artlist.io/search/song/song-controller-get-songs
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.artlist.io/welcome
- type: Support
  url: https://help.artlist.io/hc/en-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://artlist.io/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Artlist-LTD
- type: Pricing
  url: https://artlist.io/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://artlist.io/start-now
- type: Login
  url: https://artlist.io/sign-in
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://artlist.io/help-center/privacy-terms/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://artlist.io/help-center/privacy-terms/privacy-policy/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://help.artlist.io/hc/en-us/articles/29556821619101-Privacy-at-Artlist
- type: Enterprise
  url: https://artlist.io/enterprise
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/artlist-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/artlist-conventions.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/artlist-rate-limits.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/artlist-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/artlist-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/artlist-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/artlist-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/artlist-well-known.yml
- type: APICatalog
  url: well-known/artlist-api-catalog.json
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/artlist-llms.txt
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/artlist-data-model.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/artlist-packages.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/artlist-agentic-access.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/artlist-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/artlist-tool-crosswalk.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 23
  pass: local-v1

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