MusicBrainz genre vocabulary API

Return the canonical MusicBrainz genre vocabulary (keyless), sorted and deduped, optionally filtered by a case-insensitive substring. Answers 'list all music genres','what genres start with rock','is X a recognized genre','how many genres are there'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/music-genre-list

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache86400s public

musicgenrevocabularytaxonomyreferencemusicbrainztagslist

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data/music-genre-list

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "filter": "rock"
}

Example response

{
  "filter": "rock",
  "total": 2,
  "count": 2,
  "genres": [
    "rock",
    "rockabilly"
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [],
  "properties": {
    "filter": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "rock",
        "jazz"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

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