Apple Music Album Search API. Albums, singles and EPs matching your search.

Albums, singles and EPs by keyword. We handle the proxies, blocks and platform changes.

Searches Apple Music albums, singles and EPs by keyword in any country's store and returns them a page at a time, with label, UPC and track count. Each has the credited artists with their IDs, full-size cover, release date, copyright, genres, explicit rating, audio formats, Apple's notes and its Mastered for iTunes badge. The Apple Music Album API returns the tracks.

GET /v1/applemusic/search_albums

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1 credit per page, $0.75–$1.97 per 1,000 pages
20 typed fields null when unknown
50 albums, singles and EPs per page, Apple Music's own relevance order for the query
query is all it needs, e.g. lover

Send one request. Get up to 50 albums, singles and EPs back.

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$ npm install socialtap

query = lover

Open in playground

GET /v1/applemusic/search_albumsTry in

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  query: "lover",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://socialtap.dev/v1/applemusic/search_albums?${params}`, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY ?? "" },
});
const body = await res.json();
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${body.error.code}: ${body.error.message}`);
const { data, page, meta } = body;
console.log(data, meta.credits_charged);

import os

import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://socialtap.dev/v1/applemusic/search_albums",
    params={"query": "lover"},
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"]},
)
body = res.json()
if not res.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{body['error']['code']}: {body['error']['message']}")
data, page, meta = body["data"], body["page"], body["meta"]
print(data, meta["credits_charged"])

require "json"
require "net/http"

uri = URI("https://socialtap.dev/v1/applemusic/search_albums")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form('query' => 'lover')
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
req["x-api-key"] = ENV.fetch("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, use_ssl: uri.scheme == "https") { |http| http.request(req) }
body = JSON.parse(res.body)
raise "#{body["error"]["code"]}: #{body["error"]["message"]}" unless res.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
pp body["data"]
puts body["meta"]["credits_charged"]

<?php

$query = http_build_query([
    'query' => 'lover',
]);
$ch = curl_init('https://socialtap.dev/v1/applemusic/search_albums?' . $query);
curl_setopt_array($ch, [
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['x-api-key: ' . getenv('SOCIALTAP_API_KEY')],
]);
$body = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
if (curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_RESPONSE_CODE) >= 400) {
    throw new RuntimeException($body['error']['code'] . ': ' . $body['error']['message']);
}
print_r($body['data']);
echo $body['meta']['credits_charged'], PHP_EOL;

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"net/http"
	"net/url"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	q := url.Values{}
	q.Set("query", "lover")
	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://socialtap.dev/v1/applemusic/search_albums?"+q.Encode(), nil)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", os.Getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
	res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()
	var body struct {
		Data  json.RawMessage `json:"data"`
		Page  json.RawMessage `json:"page"`
		Meta  map[string]any  `json:"meta"`
		Error *struct {
			Code    string `json:"code"`
			Message string `json:"message"`
		} `json:"error"`
	}
	if err := json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&body); err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	if body.Error != nil {
		log.Fatalf("%s: %s", body.Error.Code, body.Error.Message)
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body.Data), body.Meta["credits_charged"])
}

curl 'https://socialtap.dev/v1/applemusic/search_albums?query=lover' \
  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"

{
  "data": [
    {
      "approximate_fields": [
        "released_at"
      ],
      "artist_name": "Taylor Swift",
      "artists": [
        {
          "avatar_url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/AMCArtistImages221/v4/6d/67/88/6d67888b-9e7f-53af-7853-0f91d6fd2332/ami_U003aidentity_U003a994af5c375f4c3aa96cd6ced4a700799-2026-09-25T04-00-05.358Z_cropped.png/1640x1640bb.jpg",
          "display_name": "Taylor Swift",
          "id": "159260351",
          "is_verified": null,
          "url": "https://music.apple.com/us/artist/taylor-swift/159260351",
          "username": null
        }
      ],
      "copyrights": [
        {
          "text": "℗ 2019 Taylor Swift",
          "type": "p"
        }
      ],
      "cover_url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music125/v4/49/3d/ab/493dab54-f920-9043-6181-80993b8116c9/19UMGIM53909.rgb.jpg/3900x3900bb.jpg",
      "description": "There’s a reason Taylor Swift sounds so confident and cool on Lover, her seventh album and the most free-spirited yet. She’s in love—pure, steady, starry-eyed, shout-it-from-the-rooftops love. Arriving 13 years after her eponymous debut album—and following a string of songs that …",
      "duration_ms": null,
      "genres": [
        "Pop"
      ],
      "id": "1468058165",
      "is_explicit": false,
      "label": "Taylor Swift",
      "metrics": {
        "track_count": 18
      },
      "platform": "applemusic",
      "platform_specific": {
        "applemusic": {
          "audio_traits": [
            "atmos",
            "lossless",
            "lossy-stereo"
          ],
          "content_rating": null,
          "editorial_summary": "A love letter to love itself.",
          "is_complete": true,
          "is_mastered_for_itunes": true,
          "is_prerelease": false,
          "more_by_artist": [],
          "other_versions": [],
          "rank": null,
          "storefront": "us"
        }
      },
      "released_at": "2019-08-23T00:00:00Z",
      "title": "Lover",
      "tracks": [],
      "type": "album",
      "unknown_fields": [
        "tracks",
        "tracks[].artists",
        "platform_specific.applemusic.more_by_artist"
      ],
      "upc": "00602508005275",
      "url": "https://music.apple.com/us/album/lover/1468058165"
    },
    {
      "approximate_fields": [
        "released_at"
      ],
      "artist_name": "vaultboy",
      "artists": [
        {
          "avatar_url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/AMCArtistImages221/v4/7d/2d/2d/7d2d2da3-ca61-3cea-6478-fddbc1a92f6d/49a6d979-37fe-4612-9ce0-4dbd71b4bd43_file_cropped.png/2000x2000bb.jpg",
          "display_name": "vaultboy",
          "id": "1542387120",
          "is_verified": null,
          "url": "https://music.apple.com/us/artist/vaultboy/1542387120",
          "username": null
        }
      ],
      "copyrights": [
        {
          "text": "℗ 2026 broke",
          "type": "p"
        }
      ],
      "cover_url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music221/v4/8a/fc/30/8afc3056-fd3b-3ba4-18b0-042e28b12576/612891173772.jpg/1400x1400bb.jpg",
      "description": null,
      "duration_ms": null,
      "genres": [
        "Pop"
      ],
      "id": "6798022501",
      "is_explicit": true,
      "label": "broke",
      "metrics": {
        "track_count": 1
      },
      "platform": "applemusic",
      "platform_specific": {
        "applemusic": {
          "audio_traits": [
            "lossless",
            "lossy-stereo"
          ],
          "content_rating": "explicit",
          "editorial_summary": null,
          "is_complete": true,
          "is_mastered_for_itunes": false,
          "is_prerelease": false,
          "more_by_artist": [],
          "other_versions": [],
          "rank": null,
          "storefront": "us"
        }
      },
      "released_at": "2026-08-14T00:00:00Z",
      "title": "LOVER - Single",
      "tracks": [],
      "type": "single",
      "unknown_fields": [
        "tracks",
        "tracks[].artists",
        "platform_specific.applemusic.more_by_artist"
      ],
      "upc": "612891173772",
      "url": "https://music.apple.com/us/album/lover-single/6798022501"
    },
    {
      "approximate_fields": [
        "released_at"
      ],
      "artist_name": "Park Hyo Shin",
      "artists": [
        {
          "avatar_url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Features211/v4/58/01/5f/58015f0a-bc1f-5814-080b-8edc678e95ea/mzl.aktvsodt.jpg/4000x4000bb.jpg",
          "display_name": "Park Hyo Shin",
          "id": "292946954",
          "is_verified": null,
          "url": "https://music.apple.com/us/artist/park-hyo-shin/292946954",
          "username": null
        }
      ],
      "copyrights": [
        {
          "text": "℗ 2019 (주)글러브엔터테인먼트, under license to Dreamus",
          "type": "p"
        }
      ],
      "cover_url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music116/v4/17/c9/8e/17c98e9b-8a8b-1dcd-c0b1-bf3f1208f1d8/8809829710020.jpg/3000x3000bb.jpg",
      "description": null,
      "duration_ms": null,
      "genres": [
        "Rock",
        "Pop",
        "K-Pop"
      ],
      "id": "1698506754",
      "is_explicit": false,
      "label": "(주)글러브엔터테인먼트",
      "metrics": {
        "track_count": 1
      },
      "platform": "applemusic",
      "platform_specific": {
        "applemusic": {
          "audio_traits": [
            "lossless",
            "lossy-stereo"
          ],
          "content_rating": null,
          "editorial_summary": null,
          "is_complete": true,
          "is_mastered_for_itunes": false,
          "is_prerelease": false,
          "more_by_artist": [],
          "other_versions": [],
          "rank": null,
          "storefront": "us"
        }
      },
      "released_at": "2019-06-29T00:00:00Z",
      "title": "LOVER - Single",
      "tracks": [],
      "type": "single",
      "unknown_fields": [
        "tracks",
        "tracks[].artists",
        "platform_specific.applemusic.more_by_artist"
      ],
      "upc": "8809829710020",
      "url": "https://music.apple.com/us/album/lover-single/1698506754"
    }
  ],
  "page": {
    "has_more": true,
    "next_cursor": "c1.EXAMPLE_CURSOR",
    "next_cursor_expires_at": "2026-10-26T12:00:00Z",
    "end_reason": null
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_3f9c2a7d1e8b4c6a9f0e2d4b6a8c0e1f",
    "platform": "applemusic",
    "source": "api",
    "is_cached": false,
    "credits_charged": 1,
    "latency_ms": 400,
    "fetched_at": "2026-10-25T12:00:00Z",
    "input": null,
    "credits_remaining": 9999,
    "client_request_id": null,
    "warnings": []
  }
}

import { SocialTap } from "socialtap";

const client = new SocialTap(); // apiKey defaults to process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY

const res = await client.applemusic.searchAlbums.list({ query: "lover" });
console.log(res.data);
console.log(res.credits.charged, res.meta.request_id);

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        String query = "query=" + encode("lover");
        HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://socialtap.dev/v1/applemusic/search_albums?" + query))
            .header("x-api-key", System.getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
            .GET()
            .build();
        HttpResponse<String> response = HttpClient.newHttpClient()
            .send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        // An error is {"error": {"code", "message", ...}}; success is {data, meta}, meta.credits_charged its price.
        if (response.statusCode() >= 400) throw new RuntimeException(response.body());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }

    static String encode(String value) {
        return URLEncoder.encode(value, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
    }
}

using System.Text.Json;

using var http = new HttpClient();
http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("x-api-key", Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"));

var query = string.Join("&",
    "query=" + Uri.EscapeDataString("lover"));
var res = await http.GetAsync("https://socialtap.dev/v1/applemusic/search_albums?" + query);
using var body = JsonDocument.Parse(await res.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
if (!res.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
    var error = body.RootElement.GetProperty("error");
    throw new Exception($"{error.GetProperty("code")}: {error.GetProperty("message")}");
}
Console.WriteLine(body.RootElement.GetProperty("data"));
Console.WriteLine(body.RootElement.GetProperty("meta").GetProperty("credits_charged"));

// Cargo.toml: reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["blocking", "json"] }, serde_json = "1"
use std::env;

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let res = reqwest::blocking::Client::new()
        .get("https://socialtap.dev/v1/applemusic/search_albums")
        .query(&[("query", "lover")])
        .header("x-api-key", env::var("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY")?)
        .send()?;
    let ok = res.status().is_success();
    let body: serde_json::Value = res.json()?;
    if !ok {
        return Err(format!("{}: {}", body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"]).into());
    }
    println!("{} {}", body["data"], body["meta"]["credits_charged"]);
    Ok(())
}

200 OK · GET https://socialtap.dev/v1/applemusic/search_albumsLong arrays and strings are shortened here. Real responses are complete.Docs

One schema on 2 platforms.

The response reference lists every field, its type and when it is null. See the full schema.

Null means unknown
A field Apple Music doesn't show is null, never zero or an empty string, so a real zero always means zero.
What it accepts
What to search for: an album's title, an artist's name, or both together, in any language. Apple matches it as its web player's search box does.
Write one parser
Apple Music and Spotify answer in these fields, so the code that reads one reads them all.

platformstring: Platform ID (applemusic, spotify, soundcloud, …).
idstring: Platform-native album ID (string), the one in its page's URL.
urlstring: Canonical album page URL.
typestring: What kind of release it is, as the platform says: album, single, ep or compilation; null when the platform does not say. New values may be added; treat unknown values as album.
titlestring: The release's title as the platform shows it (with an edition or a suffix like "- Single" where it writes one).
descriptionstring: About the release, as plain text (the service's editorial notes, or what its uploader wrote); null when it has none or the platform shows none.
artist_namestring: Who the platform credits for the release, as one display string (it can name more people than have an account linked: artists holds the linked ones); null when the source does not name them.
artistsobject[]: The platform accounts of the artists credited on the release, main artist first, in the platform's order; [] when none is linked, as on a Various Artists compilation (listed in unknown_fields when the source cannot see them).

What teams build with the Apple Music Album Search API.

Find an album's ID and UPC by title
Match a release catalog against Apple Music
List an artist's albums, singles and EPs
Check an album's label in another store

Good to know before you build.

Results are albums only. Songs, artists, playlists and stations have search endpoints of their own that take the same query.
tracks, more_by_artist and other_versions are [] and listed in unknown_fields, because a search names no tracks. metrics.track_count says how many there are, and the Apple Music Album API lists them.
Results are in Apple Music's order for the query. Apple serves about 200 results per search, however many match, and the walk then ends with page.end_reason platform_limit.
Results differ by store: a release can be missing from one or have another language's title. platform_specific.applemusic.storefront says which store answered.
When Apple's catalog API fails, the first page comes from its public search API and ends the walk with platform_limit: label, upc and description are null, the audio formats [] and listed in unknown_fields, type comes from the title alone (null where it doesn't say), genres holds the main one, and only the first artist is named. That API answers in the store's language, so a request with lang fails rather than answer in another.
A language the store doesn't offer isn't refused: Apple answers in the store's own language.
An empty query or an Apple Music link returns invalid_input. A link to a platform we don't cover is searched as words.

1 credit per page. Failed requests are free.

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Plans and packs How this endpoint is priced How credits work

Source	Price per successful page	Per 1,000 pages
Platform API `api`	1 credit	$0.75–$1.97

Cache hits are free.
Credits from packs and top-ups never expire.
A monthly plan's credits are spent first, and what is left of them ends at each renewal.
Prices exclude tax: sales tax is added at checkout where it applies.
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Questions about the Apple Music Album Search API.

Try it with your own search.

Type it in the playground, or copy the request into your code.

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Apple Music Album Search API. Albums, singles and EPs matching your search.

Apple Music Album Search API at a glance

Send one request. Get up to 50 albums, singles and EPs back.

One schema on 2 platforms.

Null means unknown

What it accepts

Write one parser

What teams build with the Apple Music Album Search API.

Find an album's ID and UPC by title

Match a release catalog against Apple Music

List an artist's albums, singles and EPs

Check an album's label in another store

Good to know before you build.

1 credit per page. Failed requests are free.

Questions about the Apple Music Album Search API.

Albums on 1 more platform.

Apple Music API. 10 endpoints, one key.

Try it with your own search.