iTunes lookup by id API

Look up any media item by its Apple iTunes id via the keyless /lookup endpoint, normalized into a single typed record (title, artist, album, genre, year, track count, duration, RSS feed, artwork, store URL, and ids) regardless of media type. Answers 'look up iTunes id 904237743','resolve an Apple media id','get details for a known track/album/podcast/app id'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/media-lookup

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache3600s public

medialookupitunesidresolveapplemetadataentertainment

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data/media-lookup

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "id": "201671138",
  "entity": "podcast"
}

Example response

{
  "id": "201671138",
  "found": true,
  "wrapperType": "track",
  "kind": "podcast",
  "item": {
    "title": "This American Life",
    "artist": "This American Life",
    "album": "This American Life",
    "genre": "Society & Culture",
    "year": 2024,
    "releaseDate": "2024-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "trackCount": 499,
    "durationMs": null,
    "feedUrl": "https://www.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/rss.xml",
    "artworkUrl": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/.../600x600bb.jpg",
    "url": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/.../id201671138",
    "trackId": 201671138,
    "collectionId": 201671138,
    "artistId": null
  }
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "id"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "904237743",
        "201671138"
      ]
    },
    "entity": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "podcast",
        "album"
      ]
    },
    "country": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}