Phishin vs Verome

Phish.in is a free, listener-run archive of legal live Phish recordings, covering shows, tracks, songs, venues, and tours through its v2 REST API. Read endpoints (shows, tracks, search) are fully public and keyless — a plain GET against /api/v2/shows returns real data with no credentials at all — while account-scoped features like playlists and likes require a logged-in user. The project is open source and privately funded, with an MCP endpoint also available for AI-assistant clients.

Verome is a community-built, unofficial Deno API that wraps YouTube Music search and metadata alongside YouTube, Last.fm, LRCLib, and Piped/Invidious data — covering search, streaming URLs, lyrics, related tracks, radio mixes, and regional charts. It's fully keyless and free, hosted as a live Deno Deploy instance rather than something you self-host, with the GitHub repo doubling as its endpoint documentation. Because it depends on reverse-engineered YouTube Music internals, treat it as a fragile, unofficial dependency rather than a stable, provider-backed API.