Apple Music artist API

Q: Which errors can it return?

invalid_params (do not retry), unsupported_url (do not retry), not_found (do not retry). Account and platform errors from the errors list can also happen. A failure always costs 0 credits.

Q: Is there an SDK call for it?

The preview Python client has client.apple_music.artist(...) and the TypeScript client client.appleMusic.artist() . Both return the same envelope as the HTTP API. The packages are not published yet; plain HTTP works today in any language.

Bio, origin, genres, top songs and albums.

GETapi.socialscrape.io/v1/apple-music/artist

Cost: 1 credit
Cached repeats: 0 creditssend max_age_days, results kept 30 days
Failed requests: 0 credits
Status: Betashape may still gain fields

Apple Music shows no follower or listener counts, so stats is empty. region is the storefront (default us); a URL carries its own.

You send one of url or id.

Request

Send your key in the x-api-key header.

curl

curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/apple-music/artist" \
  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode 'url=https://music.apple.com/us/artist/taylor-swift/159260351'

Python

import os
import requests

params = {
    "url": "https://music.apple.com/us/artist/taylor-swift/159260351",
}
res = requests.get(
    "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/apple-music/artist",
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},
    params=params,
    timeout=60,
)
body = res.json()

if body["ok"]:
    print(body["data"])
else:
    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])

TypeScript

const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/apple-music/artist");
url.search = new URLSearchParams({
  url: "https://music.apple.com/us/artist/taylor-swift/159260351",
}).toString();
const res = await fetch(url, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },
});
const body = await res.json();

if (body.ok) {
  console.log(body.data);
} else {
  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);
}

n8n

{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "name": "SocialScrape Apple Music artist",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
      "typeVersion": 4.2,
      "position": [
        0,
        0
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "method": "GET",
        "url": "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/apple-music/artist",
        "sendQuery": true,
        "queryParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "url",
              "value": "https://music.apple.com/us/artist/taylor-swift/159260351"
            }
          ]
        },
        "sendHeaders": true,
        "headerParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "x-api-key",
              "value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "connections": {}
}

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`url`	url	one of	Apple Music artist URL.
`id`	string	one of	Apple Music artist id.
`region`	string		Two-letter country code (ISO 3166-1) for results that vary by country. Also accepted as `country`, `geo`.

Every request also accepts trim, raw and max_age_days.

Response

Sample from a recorded response, shortened. Values are public data, not yours.

Status 200Sample

{
  "ok": true,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "cached": false,
  "cached_at": null,
  "request_id": "req_e96f2f41c789fb5c9aa99adc",
  "data": {
    "object": "profile",
    "platform": "apple_music",
    "id": "159260351",
    "handle": null,
    "name": "Taylor Swift",
    "headline": null,
    "url": "https://music.apple.com/us/artist/taylor-swift/159260351",
    "kind": "artist",
    "bio": "The country world feigned surprise when, after three albums of Music Row-indebted songcraft, Taylor Swift formally embraced pop on 2012’s Red. But no one sho...",
    "avatar_url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/AMCArtistImages221/v4/6d/67/88/6d67888b-9e7f-53af-7853-0f91d6fd2332/ami_U003aidentity_U003a994af5c375f4c3aa96cd6ced4...",
    "banner_url": null,
    "verified": null,
    "is_private": null,
    "external_url": null,
    "links": null,
    "location": "West Reading, PA, United States",
    "category": "Pop",
    "created_at": null,
    "stats": {
      "followers": null,
      "following": null,
      "posts": null,
      "likes": null,
      "views": null
    },
    "extra": {
      "album_ids": [
        "1440933849",
        "1468058165",
        "1742057774"
      ],
      "albums": [
        {
          "content_rating": "explicit",
          "cover_url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music221/v4/a0/dd/fd/a0ddfd72-ee9e-f046-6466-a5dbefc696fa/26UM1IM21436.rgb.jpg/1200x1200bb.jpg",
          "genres": [
            "Pop",
            "Music"
          ],
          "id": "6814997249",
          "is_compilation": false,
          "is_single": false,
          "label": "Taylor Swift",
          "release_date": "2026-09-24",
          "title": "The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore",
          "track_count": 16,
          "url": "https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-life-of-a-showgirl-the-encore/6814997249"
        },
        {
          "cover_url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music211/v4/47/8a/b8/478ab8ac-d134-bad3-f700-364c83323bc6/26UMGIM11621.rgb.jpg/1200x1200bb.jpg",
          "genres": [
            "Pop",
            "Music"
          ],
          "id": "1875381397",
          "is_compilation": false,
          "is_single": true,
          "label": "Taylor Swift",
          "release_date": "2026-02-13",
          "title": "Opalite (Official Music Video Extended Versions) - Single",
          "track_count": 4,
          "url": "https://music.apple.com/us/album/opalite-official-music-video-extended-versions-single/1875381397"
        },
        {
          "content_rating": "explicit",
          "cover_url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music221/v4/0e/e5/c7/0ee5c717-114f-f4e8-9f7c-e92dd6eb9152/25UM1IM74420.rgb.jpg/1200x1200bb.jpg",
          "genres": [
            "Pop",
            "Music"
          ],
          "id": "1850496031",
          "is_compilation": false,
          "is_single": false,
          "label": "Taylor Swift",
          "release_date": "2025-11-07",
          "title": "The Life of a Showgirl + Acoustic Collection",
          "track_count": 19,
          "url": "https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-life-of-a-showgirl-acoustic-collection/1850496031"
        }
      ],
      "born_or_formed": "December 13, 1989",
      "editorial_notes": {
        "short": "Favorite Taylor’s artist page for updates on The Life of a Showgirl."
      },
      "genres": [
        "Pop"
      ],
      "latest_release": {
        "cover_url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music211/v4/89/98/98/8998984f-9a80-c3e1-d59d-e6a6db859e0c/26UM1IM31403.rgb.jpg/1200x1200bb.jpg",
        "genres": [
          "Pop",
          "Music"
        ],
        "id": "6821937445",
        "is_compilation": false,
        "is_single": false,
        "label": "Taylor Swift",
        "release_date": "2026-10-16",
        "title": "Patient Zero - Single",
        "track_count": 3,
        "url": "https://music.apple.com/us/album/patient-zero-single/6821937445"
      }
    }
  },
  "cursor": null,
  "has_more": null
}

Fields

One Profile in data.

A field the platform does not give is null, never made up. Extra platform details are in extra.

Field	Type	Always	Notes
`object`	`"profile"`
`platform`	Platform	yes
`id`	string or null
`handle`	string or null
`name`	string or null
`headline`	string or null		a short tagline apart from the bio (LinkedIn's headline)
`url`	string or null
`kind`	`"person"` or `"creator"` or `"channel"` or `"page"` or `"company"` or `"artist"` or `"organization"` or `"shop"` or `"unknown"`
`bio`	string or null
`avatar_url`	string or null
`banner_url`	string or null
`verified`	boolean or null
`is_private`	boolean or null
`external_url`	string or null

Show the other 6 fields

Field	Type	Always	Notes
`links`	Link[] or null
`location`	string or null
`category`	string or null
`created_at`	string (ISO 8601 date-time) or null
`stats`	ProfileStats
`extra`	object or null

Full field list in the reference for this endpoint and the data models. Errors are listed under Errors.

Questions

Which errors can it return?

invalid_params (do not retry), unsupported_url (do not retry), not_found (do not retry). Account and platform errors from the errors list can also happen. A failure always costs 0 credits.

Is there an SDK call for it?

The preview Python client has client.apple_music.artist(...) and the TypeScript client client.appleMusic.artist(). Both return the same envelope as the HTTP API. The packages are not published yet; plain HTTP works today in any language.

Can an AI agent call it?

Yes. The MCP server reaches every built endpoint, with the same prices.

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