AllMusic Editorial Ratings, Genres & Taxonomy Scraper

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Scrapes AllMusic's editorially curated artist and album data — the only source of AllMusic's proprietary genre/style taxonomy, staff star ratings, and similar-artist relationships. This data is not available from any music API (Spotify, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, etc.).

What you get

Each record contains:

Note: Moods, themes, and biography text are loaded dynamically by AllMusic's JavaScript and are not included in server-rendered HTML. These fields are present in the output schema as null. A future render-based upgrade would capture them.

Input

Direct URL mode

Supply a list of AllMusic artist or album URLs to scrape specific entities:

{
"urls":[
{"url":"https://www.allmusic.com/artist/septicflesh-mn0000000031"},
{"url":"https://www.allmusic.com/artist/radiohead-mn0000260174"}
],
"maxItems":100
}

Sitemap crawl mode

Leave urls empty to crawl entities from AllMusic's 396-entry sitemap index (~3M+ artists and albums):

{
"maxItems":1000,
"entityType":"artist"
}

Sample output

{
"allmusic_id":"MN0000000031",
"entity_type":"artist",
"name":"SepticFlesh",
"active_years":"1990s - 2020s",
"editorial_rating":null,
"genres":"Pop/Rock",
"styles":"Black Metal | Death Metal | Heavy Metal | Symphonic Black Metal",
"moods":null,
"themes":null,
"editorial_bio_summary":null,
"similar_artists":"Hypocrisy | Samael | Rotting Christ | Dimmu Borgir | Dark Tranquillity | Nightrage | Mors Principium Est",
"influenced_by":null,
"followers_of":null,
"discography_count":null,
"allmusic_url":"https://www.allmusic.com/artist/septicflesh-mn0000000031"
}

Use cases

• Music recommendation research — AllMusic styles/genres as feature signals for ML models
• Library metadata enrichment — Linking AllMusic IDs via MusicBrainz url-rels for cross-source joins
• Music journalism — Bulk export of editorial ratings for catalog analysis
• Knowledge graph construction — Similar-artist relationships as graph edges

Technical notes

• Server-rendered HTML — no browser required, runs on core_crawler
• Cloudflare passive tracking present but not blocking (200 OK responses)
• Polite concurrency (5 parallel requests) to stay within Cloudflare monitoring thresholds
• AllMusic IDs (mn... / mw...) are stable join keys referenced by MusicBrainz url-rels