MusicBrainz artist API

One MusicBrainz artist by MBID: type, country, life span, genres, links and release groups.

Ask your agent

“Call musicbrainz/artist with id ID and summarize what comes back.”

Works in any MCP client connected to https://data.openkrill.app/mcp. Install in one line.

Path: musicbrainz/artist
MCP tool: call_endpoint
Credits: 1
Cache: 15 min

Parameters

idstring, required	MusicBrainz artist id (MBID) or musicbrainz.org/artist URL
limitinteger, optional	1-25 release groups, default 10

Response

data.resources[] uses the same keys as every other platform: author, engagement, metadata, with MusicBrainz-only fields under extras. A failed upstream call is never billed.

More MusicBrainz tools

Same artist call on other platforms

MCP tool call

{
  "name": "call_endpoint",
  "arguments": {
    "path": "musicbrainz/artist",
    "params": {
      "id": "ID"
    }
  }
}

curl

curl "https://data.openkrill.app/v1/musicbrainz/artist?id=ID" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Response

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "musicbrainz",
  "endpoint": "musicbrainz/artist",
  "data": {
    "resources": [
      { "id": …, "title": …, "text": …, "url": …,
        "author": {…}, "engagement": {…},
        "metadata": {…}, "extras": {…} }
    ]
  },
  "credits_used": 1,
  "cached": false
}