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Support & Community

The Audio Search Web services are discussed on the yws-search-general mailing list.

Audio Web Services

These services allow you to get data about songs, artists and albums, as well as URLs to find songs and podcasts on the Internet. They are:

• Artist Search

  Lists names and some data about specific artists.

• Album Search

  Given a combination of artist and album queries, provides information about albums.

• Song Search

  Given a combination of artist, album and song queries, provides information about songs.

• Song Download Location

  Given a songID (as provided by Song Search), provides links to various providers of that song on the Internet.

Rate Limit

Yahoo! Audio Search Web Services are limited to 5,000 queries per API per IP per day. See information on rate limiting and our Usage Policy to learn about acceptable uses and how to request additional queries.