Discogs API — 9 endpoints for music data, releases, and marketplace pricing
The Discogs database has catalogued over 16 million releases since 2000 — vinyl pressings, CD editions, cassettes, and digital releases, organized by artist, label, country, and year. Every pressing variant gets its own record, cross-referenced against the canonical master and linked to real-time marketplace listings. It is the most complete music release database built by a community.
Today, Anysite adds 9 Discogs endpoints to its catalog, available via REST, MCP, and CLI without a Discogs account or OAuth setup.
What is now available
The 9 endpoints cover the full Discogs data model:
- /api/discogs/artists — artist or group profile (biography, images, aliases, group members, official links)
- /api/discogs/artists/releases — full artist discography, sortable by year or format
- /api/discogs/labels — record label profile (description, parent label, sublabels, contact info)
- /api/discogs/labels/releases — complete label release catalog with catalog numbers
- /api/discogs/marketplace/stats — real-time for-sale count and lowest price for any release
- /api/discogs/masters — master release record grouping all pressings of a recording
- /api/discogs/masters/versions — all pressing variants of a master, by country, label, format, and year
- /api/discogs/releases — specific pressing details: tracklist, formats, identifiers, community have/want counts
- /api/discogs/search — full-text search with filters for artist, label, genre, style, country, year, and format
All 9 respond to the same POST-plus-JSON pattern as every other Anysite source. No Discogs account required — one Anysite API key covers all of them.
Key use cases
Vinyl pricing and valuation. /marketplace/stats returns the current lowest price and for-sale count in any currency. Combine with /masters/versions to compare prices across all pressing variants — first press vs reissue vs remaster — for the same recording.
Artist and label research. /artists/releases returns a complete discography for any artist. /labels/releases returns every release on a label with catalog numbers and formats. Both are paginated and sortable.
Release identification. /discogs/releases returns the full pressing record including tracklist, format descriptions, matrix/runout identifiers, barcode, and community conditions — the data needed to positively identify a specific pressing.
Get started
All Discogs endpoints are live today on Starter, Growth, Scale, Pro, and Enterprise plans. MCP plans (from $30/month) reach them from Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT.
Full endpoint reference, parameters, and request examples: anysite.io/endpoints/discogs/