# Radio Browser

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/radio-browser/  
**Website:** https://www.radio-browser.info/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Radio Browser is a free, community-driven directory of internet radio stations. The project publishes a public REST API exposing the full catalog of stations along with category aggregates (countries, states, languages, tags, codecs), click counting, voting, and station submission. Mirrors are discovered through a round-robin DNS pool (all.api.radio-browser.info) and the canonical server software (radiobrowser-api-rust) is released under AGPL-3.0, so anyone can self-host an additional mirror.

## Kin Score — 40.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 40.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 59.1 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 33.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 20.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 20.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| 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 — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **Radio Browser Categories API** — Aggregated counts of countries, languages, tags, codecs, and states.
- **Radio Browser Interactions API** — Click counting, voting, and station submission.
- **Radio Browser Service API** — Server stats, mirror discovery, and configuration.
- **Radio Browser Stations API** — Browse, search, and list radio stations.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Radio Browser Agentic Access** — 29 operations · 1 acting

## Security (1)

- **Radio Browser Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Radio Browser Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **Internet Radio Player Apps** — Power desktop, mobile, and web players that let users browse the directory and play streams.
- **Voice Assistant Skills** — Back Alexa/Google/Home Assistant skills that play "play jazz radio from France" requests by searching the directory.
- **Smart Speaker Integrations** — Embedded firmware (e.g. AirMusic, Hama, internet radio hardware) ships Radio Browser as a station source.
- **Music Discovery Research** — Researchers analyze the catalog to study global radio programming, language distribution, and genre tagging.
- **Streaming Health Dashboards** — Use the /json/checks data to build dashboards showing global radio stream uptime.
- **Editorial Curation** — Editors use vote/click data to surface trending stations by country, language, or genre.

## Tags

Music, Radio, Streaming, Open-Source, Open Data, Community, Public APIs, AGPL

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