Genius Song Lyrics API

# Genius Song Lyrics API The most comprehensive REST API for accessing Genius data — lyrics, songs, artists, albums, annotations, charts, comments, and user contributions. Built for developers who need reliable, fast access to the world's largest catalog of music knowledge. ## Why choose this API? - **28 endpoints** — more coverage than any competing Genius API - **Full plain-text lyrics…

4 subscribers
9.1/10 popularity
2430 ms avg latency
97% success rate
28 endpoints
The in-depth APIMemo review for this API hasn't been published yet — the data below comes straight from the public marketplace listing.

Genius Song Lyrics API endpoints

MethodEndpointDescription
Search
GET /api/v1/search/multi
/api/v1/search/multi
Search across songs, artists, albums, users, and lyrics
GET /api/v1/search
/api/v1/search
Full-text search for songs by query
Songs
GET /api/v1/songs/{id}/lyrics
/api/v1/songs/{id}/lyrics
Returns plain text lyrics extracted from the song page
GET /api/v1/songs/{id}
/api/v1/songs/{id}
GET /api/v1/songs/{id}/contributors
/api/v1/songs/{id}/contributors
GET /api/v1/songs/{id}/referents
/api/v1/songs/{id}/referents
GET /api/v1/songs/{id}/comments
/api/v1/songs/{id}/comments
Artists
GET /api/v1/artists/{id}/leaderboard
/api/v1/artists/{id}/leaderboard
GET /api/v1/artists/{id}/songs
/api/v1/artists/{id}/songs
GET /api/v1/artists/{id}
/api/v1/artists/{id}
GET /api/v1/artists/{id}/albums
/api/v1/artists/{id}/albums
Albums
GET /api/v1/albums/{id}
/api/v1/albums/{id}
GET /api/v1/albums/{id}/comments
/api/v1/albums/{id}/comments
GET /api/v1/albums/{id}/tracks
/api/v1/albums/{id}/tracks
Annotations
GET /api/v1/annotations/{id}/versions
/api/v1/annotations/{id}/versions
GET /api/v1/annotations/{id}
/api/v1/annotations/{id}
Charts
GET /api/v1/charts/songs
/api/v1/charts/songs
GET /api/v1/charts/artists
/api/v1/charts/artists
GET /api/v1/charts/albums
/api/v1/charts/albums
GET /api/v1/charts/referents
/api/v1/charts/referents
Leaderboard
GET /api/v1/leaderboard
/api/v1/leaderboard
Users
GET /api/v1/users/{id}/followers
/api/v1/users/{id}/followers
GET /api/v1/users/{id}
/api/v1/users/{id}
GET /api/v1/users/{id}/accomplishments
/api/v1/users/{id}/accomplishments
GET /api/v1/users/{id}/following
/api/v1/users/{id}/following
Videos
GET /api/v1/videos
/api/v1/videos
WebPages
GET /api/v1/web-pages/{id}/referents
/api/v1/web-pages/{id}/referents
GET /api/v1/web-pages/lookup
/api/v1/web-pages/lookup

Genius Song Lyrics API pricing

PlanPriceRate limitQuotas
BASIC Free
  • Requests: 500 / monthly
PRO $10 / month
  • Requests: 25,000 / monthly (then $0.0010 each)
ULTRA Recommended $30 / month
  • Requests: 250,000 / monthly (then $0.0010 each)
MEGA $100 / month
  • Requests: 1,000,000 / monthly (then $0.0010 each)

More Music APIs

View all →
  • Fetch public data, such songs, album and playlists from YouTube Music Server.

    MusicFreemium1.7k subscribers
  • Music Data for Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Deezer, YouTube, TikTok, Shazam, Beatport, Traxsource,…

    MusicFreemium332 subscribers
  • An all-in-one scraper for scraping everything on Spotify, and a highly available solution for tracks, lyrics…

    MusicFreemium5.3k subscribers
  • Use the Shazam Core API to identify songs by uploading an audio file. Get detailed data on songs and…

    MusicFreemium8.4k subscribers
  • Identify any song. Discover, artists, lyrics, videos & playlists to create a song detector site/application…

    MusicFreemium
  • Try it in https://spotify.checkleaked.cc/ For enterprise plans or customization contact [email protected]

    MusicFreemium4.5k subscribers