# MusicBrainz Artist Search via Suverse Proxy

> MusicBrainz Artist Search via Suverse Proxy is a paid API for AI agents from proxy.suverse.io, paid per call via x402, $0.06/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Searches MusicBrainz for music artists by name and returns ranked matches with canonical IDs, type, country, and relevance scores.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://proxy.suverse.io/v1/data/suverse-musicbrainz-artist-find
- Price: $0.06/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/musicbrainz-artist-search-via-suverse-proxy-4c684d94
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_RnowJXHoIiHX8LGBYZpO_

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability musicbrainz-artist-search-via-suverse-proxy-4c684d94 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you find the MusicBrainz ID for the artist 'Radiohead' — I need to know if they're listed as a group or person and what country they're from?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to resolve a human-readable artist name to a canonical MusicBrainz ID (MBID) without managing your own MusicBrainz API credentials or User-Agent headers. Ideal for music metadata enrichment pipelines, catalog normalization, or any workflow that needs structured artist data including type and country. Prefer this over direct MusicBrainz API calls when operating in an agent context that supports x402 micropayments.

## Known failure modes

- Artist name not found in MusicBrainz — returns empty results array
- Ambiguous name returns many low-score matches requiring manual disambiguation
- Rate limiting from MusicBrainz backend causing delayed or failed responses
- Misspelled artist name yields no strong matches
- Network timeout from upstream MusicBrainz API

## How this service works

Search MusicBrainz for music artists by name. Returns ranked matches with name, type (Group/Person), country, score and MBID. Keyless (sends a User-Agent). Useful for resolving artist names to canonical MusicBrainz IDs.

## Output

Returns a ranked list of MusicBrainz artist matches including each artist's canonical MBID, display name, type (Group or Person), country of origin, and a relevance score indicating how closely the result matches the query.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/musicbrainz-artist-search-via-suverse-proxy-4c684d94/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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