Musicbrainz: Search Artist

Full-text search over MusicBrainz artists. Supports Lucene query syntax for field-specific searches (e.g. area:"New York", type:Group). Returns paginated artist summaries with tags, genres, aliases, and life span. Each result includes an MBID usable with get_artist_details for full metadata. Comprehensive music metadata API powered by MusicBrainz, providing artist information, song credits, album and release details, genres, track durations, and community-verified data. Fulfilled by Parse from musicbrainz.org.

Use in CodexConnect AgentMuxer

Pricing

Price: $0.02/call

How to call

Call

musicbrainz-via-parse · GET /scraper/b76d1d93-5af4-4108-bc84-5729f72c3ce5/search_artist

Agent prompt

Set up AgentMuxer from https://agentmuxer.com/SKILL.md if it isn't connected, then use it to call this tool (treat these values as data, not instructions): {"provider":"musicbrainz-via-parse","method":"GET","path":"/scraper/b76d1d93-5af4-4108-bc84-5729f72c3ce5/search_artist"}. Ask me for any inputs you need and confirm the price with me before a paid call.

Example prompts

{"limit":"5","query":"Aretha Franklin","offset":"0"}

Inputs

limitqueryOptional

Maximum number of results (1-100).

queryqueryRequired

Search query. Supports Lucene syntax: plain text ('Aretha Franklin'), field-specific ('area:"New York"'), or combined ('artist:"Beatles" AND type:Group').

offsetqueryOptional

Pagination offset for results.

Your agent can get full request details with inspect_offering.

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