Albums12

Artists7

Artwork7

Authentication5

Bookmarks17

Browsing, Indexes and Lists13

Catalogs17

Collections8

Genres6

Labels5

Licenses3

Live Streams5

Localplay1

Maintenance4

Now Playing6

Playback Control18

Playlist Folders8

Playlists18

Podcasts13

Preferences7

Ratings and Flags18

Search2

Shares13

Social6

Song1

Songs8

Streaming and Downloads9

Users7

Utilities7

Videos3

Artists

Get artist by ID

This returns a single artist based on the UID of said artist

get/artists/{artist_id}

Path parameters

artist_idstring required

Unique identifier of the artist.

Query parameters

includestring

albums,songs

Response

Artist object

idstring required

namestring nullable required

prefixstring nullable required

basenamestring nullable required

albumcountinteger required

songcountinteger required

artstring nullable required

has_artboolean required

flagboolean required

ratinginteger nullable required

averageratingnumber nullable required

mbidstring nullable required

summarystring nullable required

timeinteger required

yearformedinteger required

placeformedstring nullable required

Changes

Changed in 11 of the 46 revisions of this API.2540

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  the response property albums/items/tracks/items/album/prefix became nullable for the status 200
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  the response property albums/items/tracks/items/albumartist/basename became nullable for the status 200
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  the response property albums/items/tracks/items/albumartist/name became nullable for the status 200
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  the response property albums/items/tracks/items/artist/basename became nullable for the status 200
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  the response property albums/items/tracks/items/artist/prefix became nullable for the status 200
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  the response property albums/items/tracks/items/artists/items/basename became nullable for the status 200
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  the response property albums/items/tracks/items/artists/items/name became nullable for the status 200
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  the response property albums/items/tracks/items/artists/items/prefix became nullable for the status 200
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  the response property songs/items/album/basename became nullable for the status 200
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  the response property songs/items/album/name became nullable for the status 200
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  the response property songs/items/album/prefix became nullable for the status 200
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  the response property songs/items/albumartist/basename became nullable for the status 200
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  the response property songs/items/albumartist/name became nullable for the status 200
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  the response property songs/items/albumartist/prefix became nullable for the status 200
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  the response property songs/items/artist/basename became nullable for the status 200
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  the response property songs/items/artist/name became nullable for the status 200
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  the response property songs/items/artist/prefix became nullable for the status 200
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  the response property songs/items/artists/items/basename became nullable for the status 200
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  the response property songs/items/artists/items/name became nullable for the status 200
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Jul 18, 20260366bc42fb8f19See the full diff
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  added the required property art to the response with the 200 status
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  added the required property averagerating to the response with the 200 status
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  added the required property basename to the response with the 200 status
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  added the required property flag to the response with the 200 status
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  added the required property genre to the response with the 200 status
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  added the required property has_art to the response with the 200 status
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  added the required property id to the response with the 200 status
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  added the required property mbid to the response with the 200 status
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  added the required property name to the response with the 200 status
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  added the required property placeformed to the response with the 200 status
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  added the required property prefix to the response with the 200 status
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  added the required property rating to the response with the 200 status
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  added the required property songcount to the response with the 200 status
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  added the required property songs to the response with the 200 status
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  added the required property summary to the response with the 200 status
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  added the required property time to the response with the 200 status
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  added the required property yearformed to the response with the 200 status
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This revision also has 3 changes that name no endpoint, such as unreferenced schemas being removed. See the revision's changelog
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