Music — entry 010 of 32
Genius
Genius' API exposes the crowd-sourced lyrics-annotation platform's catalog: song and artist metadata, search, and the referents/annotations that make up its trademark line-by-line lyric explanations (the lyric text itself is deliberately withheld from API responses for licensing reasons). Every call authenticates with a bearer access token issued through an OAuth2 app registration, though most read-only use only needs the app's static client access token rather than a full user-consent redirect. It's free to use and returns JSON; its docs site sits behind Cloudflare bot-protection even though the underlying api.genius.com host answers normally.
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<a href="https://greatapis.com/api/genius/"><img src="https://greatapis.com/badge/genius.svg" alt="Scored 57 on greatapis.com"></a>Auth quickstart
- Register an app / run the OAuth flow to obtain a bearer token.
- Send it as an Authorization header
Authorization: Bearer <token>
Your key is stored only in this browser (localStorage) and sent directly to the API — never to greatapis.