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Album of the Year Scraper

Scrape album ratings, reviews, and tracklists from albumoftheyear.org — the leading music aggregation site with critic and user scores for thousands of albums.

Features

• Search albums — find any album or artist by name
• Browse by year — highest-rated albums for any year (1950-2030)
• Filter by genre — narrow results to specific genres (alternative rock, synthpop, jazz, etc.)
• Multiple list types — critic highest rated, user highest rated, most popular, most anticipated
• Album details — optionally scrape full detail pages for tracklists, labels, producers, and review snippets
• Pagination — handles multi-page result sets automatically
• PPE monetization — pay-per-event billing for each result

Output Example

{
"rank":1,
"albumTitle":"OK Computer",
"artist":"Radiohead",
"criticScore":94,
"userScore":93,
"criticReviewCount":14,
"userRatingCount":36426,
"releaseDate":"May 21, 1997",
"format":"LP",
"genres":"Alternative Rock, Art Rock, Space Rock Revival, Post-Britpop",
"label":"Parlophone, Capitol, EMI",
"producer":"Nigel Godrich",
"trackCount":12,
"tracks":[
{
"number":1,
"name":"Airbag",
"length":"4:47",
"rating":93,
"ratingCount":6427
}
],
"reviewSnippets":[
{
"publication":"Pitchfork",
"score":100,
"text":"The record is brimming with genuine emotion..."
}
],
"coverUrl":"https://cdn2.albumoftheyear.org/375x0/album/ok-computer-1.jpg",
"url":"https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/362-radiohead-ok-computer.php",
"scrapedAt":"2026-04-25T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Input Parameters

Usage

Browse top-rated albums of 2024

{
"year":2024,
"listType":"critic-highest",
"maxResults":50
}

Search for an artist with full details

{
"searchQuery":"Radiohead",
"scrapeDetails":true,
"maxResults":10
}

Browse user-rated hip-hop albums

{
"year":2024,
"listType":"user-highest",
"genre":"8-hip-hop",
"maxResults":25
}

Quick list without detail pages (faster)

{
"year":2023,
"listType":"critic-highest",
"scrapeDetails":false,
"maxResults":100
}

Rate Limiting

The scraper is configured to be respectful:

• Maximum 3 concurrent requests
• Maximum 20 requests per minute
• Proper User-Agent and Referer headers

Cost

This actor uses Pay-Per-Event pricing. You are charged per album result returned to the dataset.