Search the Apple Music catalog · Apple Music API
Searches the Apple Music catalog by keyword and returns matching artists, albums, songs, playlists, stations, music videos and radio episodes.
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curl https://api.unifapi.com/apple-music/search?query= \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNIFAPI_KEY"
Parameters
- queryqueryrequired
- Search query text for Apple Music catalog results.
- typequery
- Catalog result type to return. Omit to search across types (treated as all).
- The parameter for this Apple Music operation. Use the URL-visible slug or id described in the docs.
This operation is part of the Apple Music API in the music category. It uses the same Bearer token, request tracing, error model, and billing envelope as every UnifAPI endpoint, so agents can switch between platforms without custom per-vendor glue code.
Use it when a workflow needs Apple Music public data alongside other music catalogs, but should still keep one API key, one account balance, and one predictable JSON contract.
Common agent workflows
- Search Apple Music for public mentions, creators, posts, or topics matching a user query.
- Feed ranked Apple Music results into research, monitoring, and enrichment workflows.
- Give an AI agent a stable Apple Music data source without building a per-platform integration.
- Normalize Apple Music responses into the same UnifAPI envelope used across the catalog.
Unified envelope, platform-native fields
- List-style responses return `data` as an array of top-level records plus optional `pagination` for continuation tokens or cursors.
- The operation has a 3 credits ($0.003) minimum charge, so `billing.records_charged` can be higher than the visible records returned.
- If the workspace balance cannot cover every result, the response can be truncated and `billing.truncated_due_to_balance` tells the caller why.
Response status codes
Billing
This operation charges 1 credit per billable record, with a 3 credits ($0.003) operation minimum. Public responses include billing metadata with credits charged, records charged, and remaining workspace balance. Incorrect Credit deductions caused by platform failures can be restored as billing corrections.
Errors and retries
Authentication, validation, rate-limit, not-found, and provider errors use the unified UnifAPI error format. Agents should log `request_id`, retry only retryable failures, and treat invalid API keys, disabled keys, and expired keys as the same public `unauthorized` error type.
Fields in the data object
A successful Search the Apple Music catalog call returns one data object with these fields.
- querystring | null
- Search query string evaluated for this response.
- typestring | null
- Result type applied for this response. One of: all, song, album, artist, playlist, station, music_video, radio_episode.
- artistsobject[]
- Matching Apple Music artists.
- albumsobject[]
- Matching Apple Music albums.
- songsobject[]
- Matching Apple Music songs.
- playlistsobject[]
- Matching Apple Music playlists.
- stationsobject[]
- Matching Apple Music stations.
- music_videosobject[]
- Matching Apple Music music videos.
- radio_episodesobject[]
- Matching Apple Music radio episodes.
- total_resultsnumber | null
- Count of result rows returned in this response across all sections.
More Apple Music operations
Combine endpoints from the same platform, then join the results with other UnifAPI categories without changing authentication or response parsing.
Get an Apple Music album
Returns an Apple Music album by id: title, artist, release date, genres, artwork, editorial notes and tracks. Returns `not_found` when the album does not exist.
Get an Apple Music artist
Returns an Apple Music artist by id with top songs, albums, music videos and playlists. Returns `not_found` when the artist does not exist.
Get an Apple Music song
Returns an Apple Music song by id: title, artist, album, duration, release date, genres and preview URL. Returns `not_found` when the song does not exist.