Shazam Artists Search Scraper 🎵

🎯 Features

• Search and scrape artist information from Shazam
• Support batch keywords search
• Get detailed artist profiles including name, genres, and artwork
• Customizable maximum items per search
• Built-in proxy support
• Rate limiting and random delays for reliable scraping

🔍 Use Cases

• Music industry research and analysis
• Artist discovery and verification
• Database enrichment for music applications
• Market research for record labels
• Music metadata collection

📊 Output Data Structure

The actor provides detailed information about artists, including:

• Artist name
• Genre categories
• High-quality artwork URLs
• Apple Music artist page URL
• Timestamp of when the data was scraped
• Original search keyword

💡 Tips for Using This Actor

• Use specific artist names for more accurate results
• Adjust maxItems based on your needs (default: 30)
• Enable proxy for better reliability
• Consider rate limiting for large-scale scraping

📝 Input Parameters

• keywords: Array of artist names to search for
• maxItems: Maximum number of results to fetch per keyword (optional)
• proxyConfiguration: Proxy settings (optional)

🚀 Sample Output

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "keywords": [
3        "u2"
4    ],
5    "maxItems": 30
6}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1[
2    {
3        "scrapedAt": "2025-01-27T05:08:55.173Z",
4        "item": {
5            "name": "U2",
6            "genreNames": [
7                "摇滚"
8            ],
9            "artwork": {
10                "width": 2000,
11                "url": "https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/AMCArtistImages221/v4/8b/ce/d0/8bced093-1625-4d8d-d1fb-46edf19bf6ac/d03d21ce-16d2-4efc-8b8d-0307bef5d13a_ami-identity-f8d278eb0d578250c38d8a8439af325f-2024-09-30T10-31-27.500Z_cropped.png/{w}x{h}bb.jpg",
12                "height": 2000,
13                "textColor3": "232323",
14                "textColor2": "191919",
15                "textColor4": "383838",
16                "textColor1": "000000",
17                "bgColor": "b2b2b2",
18                "hasP3": false
19            },
20            "url": "https://music.apple.com/cn/artist/u2/78500"
21        },
22        "keyword": "u2"
23    },
24    ...
25]