Simple JSON and XML REST API to search for song metadata, the lyrics URL and lyrics translations on genius.com
Authorization is not required and geniURL implements a fuzzy search that will greatly improve search results over the genius.com API.
Obtaining actual lyrics sadly isn't possible.
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For trying out geniURL yourself, you can use this Postman workspace.
To download it and test locally, hover over the collection, click the three-dot-menu and then "Export"
I host a public instance on this base URL:
https://api.sv443.net/geniurl/
Note: this instance is rate limited to 25 requests within a 30 second timeframe.
To always know how many requests you are able to send, refer to the response headers Retry-After, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining and X-RateLimit-Reset
All routes support gzip, deflate and brotli compression.
Also all routes always return the properties error and matches.
They can be used to determine whether a response has succeeded (error = false, matches > 0), is errored (error = true, matches = null) or just didn't yield any results (error = true, matches = 0).
These are the available routes:
This route gives you up to 10 results for a provided search query.
The returned payload contains various data like the lyrics website URL, song and thumbnail metadata and more (see below).
URL Parameters:
?q=search%20query
This parameter should contain both the song and artist name. For best result artist name should come first, separate with a whitespace or hyphen.
Sometimes the song name alone might be enough but the results vary greatly.
If you want to search for a remix (like ?q=Artist - Song (Artist2 Remix)), this parameter will yield better results.
Make sure the search query is percent/URL-encoded.
OR
?artist=name and ?song=name
Instead of ?q, you can also use ?artist and ?song.
Make sure these parameters are percent/URL-encoded.
Optional URL Parameters:
?format=json/xml
Use this optional parameter to change the response format from the default (json) to xml
The structure of the XML data is similar to the shown JSON data.
?threshold=0.65
This optional parameter can be used to change the fuzzy search threshold from the default of 0.65
It has to be between 0.0 and 1.0; the lower the number, the less results you'll get but the more accurate the top results will be.
0.65 is a good middle ground but depending on your use-case you might want to play around with this.
?disableFuzzy
This optional and value-less parameter can be used to disable the fuzzy search entirely.
Because the current fuzzy search implementation is not as accurate as it should be, your application might need the search results as they come from the genius API.
Response:
Successful response (click to view)
{
"error": false,
"matches": 10,
"top": {
"url": "https://genius.com/Artist-Foo-song-name-lyrics",
"path": "/Artist-Foo-song-name-lyrics",
"language": "en",
"meta": {
"title": "Song Name",
"fullTitle": "Song Name by Artist Foo (ft. Artist Bar)",
"artists": "Artist Foo (ft. Artist Bar)",
"primaryArtist": {
"name": "Artist Foo",
"url": "https://genius.com/artists/Artist-Foo",
"headerImage": "https://images.genius.com/...",
"image": "https://images.genius.com/..."
},
"featuredArtists": [
{
"name": "Artist Bar",
"url": "https://genius.com/artists/Artist-Bar",
"headerImage": "https://images.genius.com/...",
"image": "https://images.genius.com/..."
}
],
"releaseDate": {
"year": 2018,
"month": 9,
"day": 12
}
},
"resources": {
"thumbnail": "https://images.genius.com/...",
"image": "https://images.genius.com/..."
},
"lyricsState": "complete",
"id": 42069
},
"all": [
// This array contains up to 10 objects with the same structure as 'top', sorted best match first
// The amount of objects in here is the same as the 'matches' property
// The first object of this array is exactly the same as 'top'
]
}Errored response (click to view)
{
"error": true,
"matches": null,
"message": "Something went wrong"
}Response when no results found (click to view)
{
"error": true,
"matches": 0,
"message": "Found no results matching your search query"
}This route is similar to /search, but it only gives the top result.
Use this if you are only interested in the top result and want to reduce traffic.
URL Parameters:
?q=search%20query
This parameter should contain both the song and artist name. For best result artist name should come first, separate with a whitespace or hyphen.
Sometimes the song name alone might be enough but the results vary greatly.
If you want to search for a remix (like ?q=Artist - Song (Artist2 Remix)), this parameter will yield better results.
Make sure the search query is percent/URL-encoded.
OR
?artist=name and ?song=name
Instead of ?q, you can also use ?artist and ?song.
Make sure these parameters are percent/URL-encoded.
Optional URL Parameters:
?format=json/xml
Use this optional parameter to change the response format from the default (json) to xml
The structure of the XML data is similar to the shown JSON data.
?threshold=0.65
This optional parameter can be used to change the fuzzy search threshold from the default of 0.65
It has to be between 0.0 and 1.0; the lower the number, the less results you'll get but the more accurate the top results will be.
0.65 is a good middle ground but depending on your use-case you might want to play around with this.
?disableFuzzy
This optional and value-less parameter can be used to disable the fuzzy search entirely.
Because the current fuzzy search implementation is not as accurate as it should be, your application might need the search results as they come from the genius API.
Response:
Successful response (click to view)
{
"error": false,
"matches": 1,
"url": "https://genius.com/Artist-Foo-song-name-lyrics",
"path": "/Artist-Foo-song-name-lyrics",
"language": "en",
"meta": {
"title": "Song Name",
"fullTitle": "Song Name by Artist Foo (ft. Artist Bar)",
"artists": "Artist Foo (ft. Artist Bar)",
"primaryArtist": {
"name": "Artist Foo",
"url": "https://genius.com/artists/Artist-Foo",
"headerImage": "https://images.genius.com/...",
"image": "https://images.genius.com/..."
},
"featuredArtists": [
{
"name": "Artist Bar",
"url": "https://genius.com/artists/Artist-Bar",
"headerImage": "https://images.genius.com/...",
"image": "https://images.genius.com/..."
}
],
"releaseDate": {
"year": 2018,
"month": 9,
"day": 12
}
},
"resources": {
"thumbnail": "https://images.genius.com/...",
"image": "https://images.genius.com/..."
},
"lyricsState": "complete",
"id": 42069
}Errored response (click to view)
{
"error": true,
"matches": null,
"message": "Something went wrong"
}Response when no result found (click to view)
{
"error": true,
"matches": 0,
"message": "Found no results matching your search query"
}This route returns all translations of a certain song.
Get the song ID from one of the search routes.
Example: /translations/1644
Optional URL Parameters:
?format=json/xml
Use this optional parameter to change the response format from the default (json) to xml
The structure of the XML data is similar to the shown JSON data.
Response:
Successful response (click to view)
{
"error": false,
"matches": 1,
"translations": [
{
"language": "es",
"title": "Artist - Song (Traducción al Español)",
"url": "https://genius.com/Genius-traducciones-al-espanol-artist-song-al-espanol-lyrics",
"path": "/Genius-traducciones-al-espanol-artist-song-al-espanol-lyrics",
"id": 6942
}
]
}Errored response (click to view)
{
"error": true,
"matches": null,
"message": "Something went wrong"
}Response when no result found (click to view)
{
"error": true,
"matches": 0,
"translations": []
}This route returns any associated album for a specified song.
Get the song ID from one of the search routes.
Example: /album/1644
Optional URL Parameters:
?format=json/xml
Use this optional parameter to change the response format from the default (json) to xml
The structure of the XML data is similar to the shown JSON data.
Response:
Successful response (click to view)
{
"error": false,
"matches": 1,
"album": {
"name": "Album",
"fullTitle": "Song by Artist",
"url": "https://genius.com/albums/Artist/Album",
"coverArt": "https://images.genius.com/...",
"id": 12345,
"artist": {
"name": "Artist",
"url": "https://genius.com/artists/Artist",
"image": "https://images.genius.com/...",
"headerImage": "https://images.genius.com/..."
}
}
}Errored response (click to view)
{
"error": true,
"matches": null,
"message": "Something went wrong"
}Response when no result found (click to view)
{
"error": true,
"matches": 0,
"message": "Couldn't find any associated album for this song"
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