# Bandcamp Album API Documentation

Retrieve a public Bandcamp album by its URL: title, artist, release date, price in major units with currency (omitted when the page has no price), tags, track list with durations and cover art URL. The url parameter must be a bandcamp.com album page. Other hosts return a 422 validation error.

- **Documentation:** [https://scrappa.co/docs/bandcamp-api/bandcamp_album](https://scrappa.co/docs/bandcamp-api/bandcamp_album)
- **API group:** Bandcamp API
- **Endpoint:** `GET https://scrappa.co/api/bandcamp/album`

## Authentication

Send your Scrappa API key in the `X-API-KEY` request header. Paid endpoints also support accountless x402 payments when called without an API key.

## Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `url` | string | Yes | Full Bandcamp album URL. Example: https://omunit.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-breakbeat-sample-pack. |

## Example request

```bash
#!/bin/bash

curl -X GET \
    -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY_HERE" \
    "https://scrappa.co/api/bandcamp/album?url=https%3A%2F%2Fomunit.bandcamp.com%2Falbum%2Fambient-breakbeat-sample-pack"
```

## Example response

```json
{
    "success": true,
    "data": {
        "title": "Ambient Breakbeat Sample Pack",
        "artist": "Om Unit",
        "url": "https://omunit.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-breakbeat-sample-pack",
        "release_date": "2020-09-03",
        "tags": [
            "England",
            "house",
            "samples"
        ],
        "tracks": [
            {
                "position": 1,
                "title": "Track 1",
                "duration_seconds": 120.5
            }
        ],
        "cover_art_url": "https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4061576051_16.jpg"
    },
    "meta": {
        "endpoint_family": "album_detail",
        "billable": true
    }
}
```

## Errors

| Status | Error | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 422 | Validation Error | The url parameter is missing, invalid or not a bandcamp.com URL. No upstream request is made. This response is not billable. |
| 404 | Album Not Found | The requested Bandcamp album was not found. This response is not billable. |
| 503 | Upstream Unavailable | Bandcamp is temporarily unavailable. This response is not billable. |

## More Scrappa resources

- [API documentation](https://scrappa.co/docs)
- [Full LLM-readable API reference](https://scrappa.co/llms-full.txt)
- [OpenAPI specification](https://scrappa.co/docs/api.json)
- [Pricing](https://scrappa.co/pricing)