Artist Metrics API

API calls to retrieve an artist's followers, song plays and video views across leading sources such as Twitter, Facebook, LastFM and Vevo

Metrics Endpoints

Resource URL	Description
/{id}/metrics	Return a list of all the available metrics sources for an artist
/{id}/metrics/facebook	Return Facebook metrics data
/{id}/metrics/lastfm	Return LastFM metrics data
/{id}/metrics/twitter	Return Twitter metrics data
/{id}/metrics/vevo	Return Vevo metrics data

Artist Name and ID Lookup

The API provides auto-complete suggestions — or, “predictions” – for artist names. Auto-complete minimizes the number of false positives for artist searches. You can search a list of suggested artists using a prefix this will return a list of potential artist matches based upon a query string.

Parameter	Required	Description	Example
api_key	yes	The developer API key	api_key=c8303e90962e3a5ebd5a1f260a69b138
prefix	yes	Contains	&prefix=gree
genre	no	Use to filter the suggest results. Values here	&genre=rock
decade	no	Use to filter the suggest results. Values here	&decade=2000s
limit	no	By default, the API will return 20 results. Use the limit query string parameter to return a custom number of results (max 100).	&limit=20
offset	no	Use the offset query parameter to perform pagination on the results set.	&offset=10

Examples:

Artist Metrics Search

You can perform artist metrics search operations using parameters and filters detailed below.

Parameter	Required	Description	Example
api_key	yes	The developer API key	api_key=c8303e90962e3a5ebd5a1f260a69b138
limit	no	By default, the API will return 20 results. Use the limit query string parameter to return a custom number of results (max 100).	&limit=40
offset	no	Use the offset query parameter to perform pagination on the results set.	&offset=10
artist_id	yes	The ID of the artist; obtained using the Artist Suggest Search	&artist_id=ee2564c7-a6b5-11e0-b446-00251188dd67

Examples:

You can search for Adele's social metrics.

http://api.musicgraph.com/api/v2/artist/ee2564c7-a6b5-11e0-b446-00251188dd67/metrics?api_key=c8303e90962e3a5ebd5a1f260a69b138

You can search for Adele's Facebook metrics.

http://api.musicgraph.com/api/v2/artist/ee2564c7-a6b5-11e0-b446-00251188dd67/metrics/facebook?api_key=c8303e90962e3a5ebd5a1f260a69b138

You can search for Adele's Vevo metrics.

http://api.musicgraph.com/api/v2/artist/ee2564c7-a6b5-11e0-b446-00251188dd67/metrics/vevo?api_key=c8303e90962e3a5ebd5a1f260a69b138

You can search for Adele's LastFm metrics.

http://api.musicgraph.com/api/v2/artist/ee2564c7-a6b5-11e0-b446-00251188dd67/metrics/lastfm?api_key=c8303e90962e3a5ebd5a1f260a69b138

You can search for Adele's Twitter metrics.

http://api.musicgraph.com/api/v2/artist/ee2564c7-a6b5-11e0-b446-00251188dd67/metrics/twitter?api_key=c8303e90962e3a5ebd5a1f260a69b138

Try it out!