7digital API

Name: 7digital API API
Brand: 7digital API
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★ Only Publicly Available OpenAPI DocumentMediaAudio Processingoauth17 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Search the 7digital catalogue, look up artists, releases, and tracks, and retrieve release tracklists for music apps and streaming products.

Quickstart

Get started with 7digital API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"search 7digital music catalogue"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with 7digital API API.

Search the 7digital catalogue for tracks matching a free-text query

Search for artists by name with relevance ranking

Search for releases (albums and EPs) across the catalogue

Retrieve full release detail including label, release date, and territory availability

Browse an artist's discography and biography

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Explore with Jentic

View OpenAPI Document

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI document for 7digital API, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

Jentic publishes the only available OpenAPI specification for 7digital API, keeping it validated and agent-ready. The 7digital API exposes the music store and catalogue services from 7digital across seven endpoints covering search and detail retrieval for tracks, releases, and artists. Apps use it to power music search, browse artist catalogues, and look up release tracklists for both download and streaming products. Authentication is OAuth using a 7digital consumer key issued through the partner portal.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use 7digital API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Music Search Inside a Consumer App

Music streaming and download apps power their search bar with the 7digital track, artist, and release search endpoints so users can find content from across the licensed catalogue in a single query. The API returns ranked results with cover art and preview URLs that apps can render directly. A first working search experience takes one to two days to ship.

Call /track/search with the user's query 'happier than ever', display the top ten results, and resolve the selected track via /release/details for full metadata.

Artist Pages and Discography Browsing

Fan apps and music magazines build artist pages by combining /artist/browse and /artist/releases to show biographies, discographies, and the latest releases. The endpoints return structured records with consistent IDs so an editorial team does not need to maintain a separate catalogue. Initial integration takes about two days.

Call /artist/browse for 'Radiohead', then /artist/releases sorted by release date to render a discography page.

Release Detail Pages with Tracklists

Album-detail pages in music apps use /release/details and /release/tracks to show metadata, label, release date, and the full tracklist with durations. This replaces hand-curated content and ensures the tracklist stays in sync with the licensed catalogue. End-to-end integration is around a day for a single album view.

Given a selected album, call /release/details and /release/tracks and render the page with cover art, tracklist, and duration totals.

AI Music Assistant via Jentic

An AI music assistant connected through Jentic can answer questions like 'find me Adele's latest album and its tracks' by chaining /artist/search, /artist/releases, and /release/tracks behind the scenes. Jentic stores the OAuth consumer credentials in the vault and exposes the operations by intent. End-to-end response time is a few seconds per query.

Search Jentic for 'find an album and tracklist', load /artist/search for 'Adele' to get the artist ID, then load /artist/releases and /release/tracks to return the latest album and its tracks.

Key Endpoints

7 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for 7digital api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/track/search

Search the catalogue for tracks

GET

/release/search

Search the catalogue for releases

GET

/artist/search

Search for artists by name

GET

/release/details

Retrieve full release metadata

GET

/artist/browse

Browse an artist record with biography

GET

/artist/releases

List releases for a given artist

GET

/release/tracks

List tracks for a specific release

GET

/track/search

Search the catalogue for tracks

GET

/release/search

Search the catalogue for releases

GET

/artist/search

Search for artists by name

GET

/release/details

Retrieve full release metadata

GET

/artist/browse

Browse an artist record with biography

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

7digital OAuth consumer credentials are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault (MAXsystem) and used to sign requests at execution time. Agents receive scoped access — the raw secret never appears in the prompt or output.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic with intents like 'search music by track title' or 'get an album tracklist' and Jentic returns the matching 7digital operation with its input schema, so the agent calls the right endpoint without reading the developer portal.

Time to first call

Direct integration with the 7digital API takes about two days for OAuth signing, search, and detail handling. Through Jentic the same call is reachable in under thirty minutes.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Alternative

MusicBrainz API

Open music metadata database with artist, release, and track records

Choose MusicBrainz when the user needs free, open music metadata; choose 7digital for licensed catalogue with preview and licensing data.

Alternative

Napster API

Music catalogue and streaming API with similar search and detail coverage

Choose Napster when the user already has a Napster partnership; both APIs cover similar catalogue search use cases.

Complementary

eBay API

E-commerce platform commonly used to sell physical music products

Pair eBay with 7digital when the app sells physical CDs or vinyl alongside catalogue search.

FAQs

Specific to using 7digital API API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for 7digital API?

7digital publishes a developer portal at docs.7digital.com but does not distribute a machine-readable OpenAPI specification for direct ingestion. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so AI agents and developers can call 7digital through structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What authentication does the 7digital API use?

The API uses OAuth signed requests with a consumer key and secret issued through the 7digital partner portal. When called through Jentic the OAuth credentials are stored encrypted in the vault and the request signature is generated at execution time, so the secret never enters the agent's prompt context.

Can I search the 7digital catalogue by track title with this API?

Yes. Call GET /track/search with the q parameter set to the track title. The response returns ranked matches with track ID, artist, release, duration, and preview URLs that your app can render.

What are the rate limits for the 7digital API?

Rate limits are set per partner contract rather than as a single public number. 7digital advises caching catalogue responses where possible and avoiding tight polling loops. Back off on HTTP 429 responses and respect the Retry-After header.

How do I get an album tracklist with the 7digital API through Jentic?

After running pip install jentic and setting JENTIC_AGENT_API_KEY, search Jentic for 'get album tracklist', load GET /release/tracks, and execute it with the release ID. Jentic injects the OAuth signing automatically.

Does the 7digital API stream audio directly?

No. The catalogue API returns metadata and short preview URLs only. Full track playback for download or streaming products is delivered through 7digital's separate playback APIs once a partner subscription is in place.