/v1/artist
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curl "https://api.oanor.com/musicbrainz-api/v1/artist" \ -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/musicbrainz-api/v1/artist", {
headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/musicbrainz-api/v1/artist");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
"https://api.oanor.com/musicbrainz-api/v1/artist",
headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)
Example response
A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.
{
"data": {
"artist": {
"id": "a74b1b7f-71a5-4011-9441-d0b5e4122711",
"area": "United Kingdom",
"name": "Radiohead",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"alternative rock",
"alternative rock music",
"ambient pop",
"art pop",
"art rock",
"british",
"britpop",
"britrock",
"chamber pop",
"crossover prog",
"electronic",
"electronic rock",
"electronica",
"english",
"experimental",
"experimental rock",
"idm",
"indie rock",
"indietronica",
"oxford",
"post-britpop",
"post-grunge",
"progressive rock music",
"rock",
"uk",
"vyrzukhisuc-artiest"
],
"type": "Group",
"isnis": [
"0000000115475162"
],
"gender": null,
"country": "GB",
"life_span": {
"end": null,
"begin": "1991",
"ended": false
},
"relations": [
{
"url": "https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000326249",
"type": "allmusic"
},
{
"url": "https://radiohead.bandcamp.com/",
"type": "bandcamp"
},
{
"url": "https://www.bandsintown.com/a/25874",
"type": "bandsintown"
},
{
"url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/a74b1b7f-71a5-4011-9441-d0b5e4122711",
"type": "BBC Music page"
},
{
"url": "https://radiohead.tumblr.com/",
"type": "blog"
},
{
"url": "http://www.btinternet.com/~r.j.arthur/rh/rhdisc.htm",
"type": "discography page"
},
{
"url": "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3840",
"type": "discogs"
},
{
"url": "https://citizeninsane.eu/",
"type": "fanpage"
},
{
"url": "https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Z8W4fKeB5YxbusRsdQVPb",
"type": "free streaming"
},
{
"url": "https://www.deezer.com/artist/323887691",
"type": "free streaming"
},
{
"url": "https://www.deezer.com/artist/399",
"type": "free streaming"
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