Discogs

Reference

api.discogs.com

The Discogs music database: releases, masters, artists and labels, with credits, formats, tracklists and catalogue numbers.

Runs on your machine under the source's own terms

The crw MCP on your computer calls Discogs directly, with a free key of your own. Calls cost no credits and the data does not pass through fastCRW. Install it once for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI or OpenCode, with your fastCRW API key in place of the placeholder:

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Capabilities (9)

discogs/artistFree, runs locally

One artist or group: profile, name variations, members, aliases, sites and images.

artistId

discogs/artist-releasesFree, runs locally

Everything an artist appears on, as releases and masters, with role and year.

artistIdpage?per_page?sort?sort_order?

discogs/labelFree, runs locally

One record label: profile, contact info, parent label and sublabels.

labelId

discogs/label-releasesFree, runs locally

Everything a label has released, with catalogue number, artist, title and year.

labelIdpage?per_page?

discogs/masterFree, runs locally

The work behind its many pressings: main release, year, genres, styles and the artists credited.

masterId

discogs/master-versionsFree, runs locally

Every pressing of a master release, with country, year, format and catalogue number for each.

masterIdpage?per_page?format?label?released?country?sort?sort_order?

discogs/releaseFree, runs locally

One specific pressing: tracklist, credits, formats, labels, catalogue number, country, year and images.

releaseIdcurr_abbr?

discogs/release-ratingFree, runs locally

The community rating for one release: average score and number of votes.

releaseId

discogs/searchFree, runs locally

Search the whole Discogs database by title, artist, label, catalogue number, barcode, year or format, returning typed matches.

qtype?title?release_title?credit?artist?label?genre?style?country?year?format?catno?barcode?track?submitter?contributor?page?per_page?

Licence

Prohibited commercial uses include, but are not limited to: Selling or giving to any third party Our API, the Content, or access to Our API or the Content.

https://support.discogs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009334593-API-Terms-of-Use

Attribution

Display this wherever you show the data. It arrives on every response as provenance.attributionText.

Data from Discogs

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