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Jamendo API

Half a million Creative Commons tracks you can actually stream and download

The Jamendo API provides access to a catalogue of around 500,000 Creative Commons and royalty-free tracks, with search, radio, and discovery methods plus streamable and downloadable audio URLs. A free client_id is issued from the developer portal. It is one of the few music APIs that returns actual playable/downloadable audio for free.

Free tier

Free non-commercial developer tier: up to 35,000 API requests/month with a client_id; commercial licensing via Jamendo Licensing

Rate limits

35,000 API requests/month on the free non-commercial tier

Auth

API key

Base URL

https://api.jamendo.com/v3.0

What you'd build with it

  • Source royalty-free background music for generated videos or games
  • Build a CC-music discovery/radio feature
  • Pull license-tagged tracks an automation can legally embed

Key endpoints

  • GET/tracks/Search/filter tracks; returns audio + download URLs and license info
  • GET/artists/Search artists and their metadata
  • GET/albums/Search albums
  • GET/playlists/Search user playlists
Members

Members get the runnable recipe

Sign in free to copy the example request, see a sample response, and read the gotchas.

Tags

musicaudiocreative-commonsroyalty-free