Music — entry 008 of 32
Freesound
Freesound's APIv2 lets apps browse, search, and retrieve Freesound's library of user-uploaded sound clips — with content-based similarity search and audio-analysis features on top of plain metadata search — plus upload, comment, rate, and bookmark actions for authenticated users. It supports both token-based key auth and full OAuth2, defaults to JSON responses (XML and YAML are available but untested by the maintainers), and access is free for registered developers. The older APIv1 has reached end-of-life and is no longer available.
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<a href="https://greatapis.com/api/freesound/"><img src="https://greatapis.com/badge/freesound.svg" alt="Scored 70 on greatapis.com"></a>Auth quickstart
- Sign up with the provider to get an API key.
- Send it on every request as a header
Authorization: <key> - The exact header isn't documented — Authorization is a common default; confirm in the provider's docs.
Your key is stored only in this browser (localStorage) and sent directly to the API — never to greatapis.
Developer reference
60 requests/minute and 2,000/day for standard endpoints; 30/minute and 500/day for write actions (upload, comment, rate)