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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 LicensingRate limits
35,000 API requests/month on the free non-commercial tierAuth
API keyBase URL
https://api.jamendo.com/v3.0What 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