Genius
Crowdsourced music knowledge — the Genius/Rap Genius platform. The Genius API exposes structured metadata for songs, artists, albums, annotations, referents, and contributors. Raw lyric text is not served by the API; consumers receive the public song page URL and scrape lyrics from there.
Genius publishes 9 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Account API, Albums API, Annotations API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include Music, Lyrics, Annotations, Crowdsourced, and Reference Data.
The Genius catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Genius’ developer surface includes authentication, tooling, and 15 more developer resources.
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APIs 9
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Genius Account API
Authenticated user account.
Genius Albums API
Album metadata, tracks, cover art, and leaderboards.
Genius Annotations API
Community annotations attached to lyric fragments.
Genius Artists API
Artist profiles, discography, followers, and leaderboards.
Genius Referents API
Lyric fragments (referents) and their attached annotations.
Genius Search API
Full-text search across the Genius corpus.
Genius Songs API
Song metadata, contributors, and activity.
Genius Users API
Genius user profiles and contributions.
Genius Web Pages API
Web page lookup for the annotation network.
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Genius API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Genius Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Genius Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Genius Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Genius API Rules
SPECTRALGenius API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 7
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
GeniusAlbum
JSON SCHEMAGeniusAnnotation
JSON SCHEMAGeniusArtist
JSON SCHEMAGeniusReferent
JSON SCHEMAGeniusSong
JSON SCHEMAGeniusUser
JSON SCHEMAGeniusWebPage
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JSON Structure 2
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Genius Annotation Structure
JSON STRUCTUREGenius Song Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 7
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Genius Get Artist Example
EXAMPLEGenius Get Referents Example
EXAMPLEGenius Get Song Example
EXAMPLEGenius Search Example
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 6
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type