# Saylor Innovations Music Artist Lookup

> Saylor Innovations Music Artist Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from saylorinnovations.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-02).

Looks up a music artist by name from MusicBrainz, returning their type, origin country, active years, genres, full discography (albums and EPs with release dates), and similarly named artists.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://saylorinnovations.com/api/music/artist?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-music-artist-lookup-de7688ed
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_sY0t-4ZBqQS5nzRO5zHXd

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 saylor-innovations-music-artist-lookup-de7688ed
```

Example prompt: Can you look up Radiohead for me — I want their origin country, active years, genres, and a full list of their albums and EPs with release dates?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured, factual music artist metadata — especially discography, origin, genres, and active years — sourced from MusicBrainz. Prefer it over general web search when you want structured JSON output rather than unstructured text, or when building music recommendation, cataloging, or enrichment workflows that need reliable artist data.

## Known failure modes

- Artist not found in MusicBrainz — returns found: false with no further data
- Ambiguous or common name returns multiple similarly-named artists without a clear primary match
- Incomplete MusicBrainz records may result in missing fields such as origin country or genres
- Misspelled artist name yields no results or wrong artist
- Rate limiting or upstream MusicBrainz unavailability may cause errors

## How this service works

Music Artist Lookup: discography, genres, origin (MusicBrainz). Music artist lookup from MusicBrainz: type, origin country, active years, genres, full album and EP discography with release dates, and similarly named artists.

## Output

Returns a JSON object indicating whether the artist was found, and if so includes the artist's name, type (person or group), origin country, active years, associated genres, a full list of albums and EPs with release dates, and a list of similarly named artists.

## 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"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH",
      "DELETE",
      "HEAD"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "artist or band name (query)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "found"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "name": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "found": {
       "type": "boolean"
      },
      "albums_and_eps": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object"
       }
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-music-artist-lookup-de7688ed/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from saylorinnovations.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/saylorinnovations.com/llms.txt)