# Genius

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/genius/  
**Website:** https://genius.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 9

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.

## Kin Score — 29.3 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.4 from 28.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 27.1 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 31.6 |
| Access Clarity | 31.6 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (9)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Genius Agentic Access** — 30 operations · 5 acting

## Security (2)

- **Genius Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Genius Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Genius Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Music, Lyrics, Annotations, Crowdsourced, Reference Data, Public APIs

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/genius/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.