Is there any free unlimited album artwork search API service? [closed]

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Google's custom search API has a limitation up to 100 queries per day. That is far less than what I expected. I want to add that artwork-search function to my app. Thanks a lot.

Shameful answered 25/9, 2011 at 4:3 Comment(0)

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How about Discogs, or Amazon or seeing what Cover Fetcher does?

Condemnatory answered 11/10, 2011 at 9:56 Comment(4)

discogs seems promising, thanks. – Shameful 11/10, 2011 at 13:11

Last I read the Amazon Terms of Service, you could only use their album art in the context of selling albums with their affiliate program. – Newmarket 26/12, 2013 at 6:49

As of earlier this year, Discogs is no longer unlimited: onemusicapi.com/blog/2014/08/13/… . Furthermore, @Newmarket is correct. – Campy 1/12, 2014 at 12:20

Also try Spotify and Itunes. – Blood 13/12, 2015 at 18:59

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Musicbrainz and the Internet Archive offer the Cover Art Archive but you do need to request using the album's MBID.

Isborne answered 16/10, 2012 at 15:12 Comment(0)

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Last.FM provides an API for getting art but you can't actually use it in publicly distributed applications. They said that the recording companies own the art and they aren't licensed to distribute it. Huh? Why the API then? I don't get it.

Toowoomba answered 8/4, 2013 at 23:53 Comment(2)

exactly my point ..... I don't get this stupidity.. – Billhook 13/1, 2014 at 13:11

is this possible, instead of using our own key we ask the users to provide their key .... – Billhook 13/1, 2014 at 13:12

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Last FM's album.getInfo API call offers images in four different sizes and can be searched using names or musicbrainz IDs. Output can be XML/JSON/JSONP.

Isborne answered 30/4, 2012 at 14:30 Comment(1)

Last fm images are not for public use ... – Billhook 13/1, 2014 at 13:8

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Last.fm isn't completely free and unlimited "Last.fm reserves the right to share in revenue generated from your use of Last.fm Data in future on terms to be negotiated in good faith between Last.fm and You."

Discovered the FreeCover website API a few minutes ago searching for the same thing: http://www.freecovers.net/api/

For the record, ROVi seems loaded (they source Apple): http://developer.rovicorp.com/

...but same as every good service on the internet: if you want good (meaning reliable) service, you'll have to pay eventually ;)

Ethelstan answered 26/2, 2013 at 22:27 Comment(4)

If you make good revenue out of their API, isn't that obvious that you might have to share a bit of this revenue with them? #justsaying – Feinstein 27/9, 2013 at 11:13

Sorry, I thought I had write it on the last line of my answer. Did you understand otherwise ? Please correct me if so ! – Ethelstan 9/10, 2013 at 16:23

Last fm images are not for public use or are they ??I contacted them and they said no... @RemiGrumeau – Billhook 13/1, 2014 at 13:10

Then this API is just for their own apps use. For internal scalibility sake. – Feinstein 22/1, 2014 at 15:28

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Other than the Cover Art Archive the only other approachably "free" and unlimited resource is Wikipedia: http://www.onemusicapi.com/blog/2014/09/10/querying-wikipedia-album-artwork/

You can use DBpedia to search for the album, then use the Wikimedia APIs to actually download the image.

Campy answered 1/12, 2014 at 12:23 Comment(0)

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