What are the best Music APIs? ( 2026 )

AI Mastering

Automated Music Mastering

api.clarify.io

The API to Search and Understand Audio & Video Data.

Audiomack

Api of the streaming music hub Audiomack

Bandcamp

API of Music store Bandcamp

Bandsintown

Music Events

Deezer

Music

Discogs

Music

Douban Music (豆瓣音乐)

Douban's music platform API — album info, reviews, tags, search, user interactions

Gaana

API to retrieve song information from Gaana

Genius

Crowdsourced lyrics and music knowledge

Genrenator

Music genre generator

iTunes Search

Software products

Jamendo

Music

JioSaavn

API to retrieve song information, album meta data and many more from JioSaavn

KKBOX

Get music libraries, playlists, charts, and perform out of KKBOX's platform

KSoft.Si Lyrics

API to get lyrics for songs

Kugou Music (酷狗音乐)

Major Chinese music platform — search, charts, artist albums, downloads, streaming URLs

No Auth

LastFm

Music

LRCLIB

Crowdsourced lyrics

No AuthHTTPSCORS

Lyrics.ovh

Simple API to retrieve the lyrics of a song

Media API

The Media API can be used to query, download and delete media items such as audio files for use with other Nexmo APIs.

Mixcloud

Music

OAuthHTTPSCORS

Mubert AI Music API

Integrate AI music into your app, game or service

MusicBrainz

Music

MusicGPT

AI Music Generator with text-to-speech, voice changer, remix & 20+ music features.

Musixmatch

Music

Napster

Music

NetEase Cloud Music (网易云音乐)

China's most popular music streaming platform — playlists, song URLs, user data

Openwhyd

Download curated playlists of streaming tracks (YouTube, SoundCloud, etc...)

Phishin

A web-based archive of legal live audio recordings of the improvisational rock band Phish

QingTing FM (蜻蜓FM)

Chinese podcast and radio platform — live streams, on-demand audio, rankings, search, OAuth2.0

No Auth

Radio & Music Services

We encapsulate Radio & Music business logic for iPlayer Radio and BBC Music products on all platforms. We add value by reliably providing the right blend of metadata needed by clients.

Radio Browser

List of internet radio stations

No AuthHTTPSCORS

Songkick

Music Events

Songlink / Odesli

Get all the services on which a song is available

Songsterr

Provides guitar, bass and drums tabs and chords

SoundCloud

With SoundCloud API you can build applications that will give more power to control your content

SoundCloud Public API Specification

API provided by soundcloud.com

Spotify

View Spotify music catalog, manage users' libraries, get recommendations and more

Spotify Web API

You can use Spotify's Web API to discover music and podcasts, manage your Spotify library, control audio playback, and much more. Browse our available Web API endpoints using the sidebar at left, o...