: Search audio

API: creativecommons.engineering:creative-commons-catalog-api
Endpoint: /v1/audio/
Response format: text/plain
Auth: unknown
Method: GET
Last Status: 200
Latency: 1096ms

Description

Search for openly-licensed audio files. Supports full-text search and filtering by license, source, creator, category, and more.

Parameters (12)

category (string, query, optional)

Comma-separated categories: audiobook, music, news, podcast, pronunciation, sound_effect

creator (string, query, optional)

Filter by creator name

length (string, query, optional)

Comma-separated lengths: long, medium, short, shortest

license (string, query, optional)

Comma-separated list of licenses: by, by-nc, by-nc-nd, by-nc-sa, by-nd, by-sa, cc0, pdm

license_type (string, query, optional)

Comma-separated list: all, all-cc, commercial, modification

mature (boolean, query, optional, default: False)

Include sensitive/mature content

page (integer, query, optional, default: 1)

Page number of results

Constraints: {'minimum': 1}

page_size (integer, query, optional, default: 20)

Number of results per page

Constraints: {'minimum': 1}

q (string, query, optional)

Search query string (max 200 chars)

source (string, query, optional)

Comma-separated list of data sources

tags (string, query, optional)

Search by tags

title (string, query, optional)

Search by title only

Examples (1)

Search audio probe-gate
curl 'https://api.openverse.org/v1/audio/?page=1&page_size=20&mature=False'
import requests

resp = requests.get(
    "https://api.openverse.org/v1/audio/",
    params={
        'page': '1',
        'page_size': '20',
        'mature': 'False',
    },
)
data = resp.json()
import zingu_apis

api = zingu_apis.api("creativecommons")
result = api.fetch("v1/audio/", page=1, page_size=20, mature="False")

for item in result:
    print(item)
const resp = await fetch("https://api.openverse.org/v1/audio/?page=1&page_size=20&mature=False");
const data = await resp.json();

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-04-16 01:05:56.032052 200 1096ms
2026-04-15 01:25:58.654653 200 747ms
2026-04-14 02:07:05.417527 200 154ms
2026-04-12 16:20:11.896582 200 672ms
2026-04-10 02:53:21.003089 200 585ms
2026-04-09 00:24:57.546204 200 1042ms
2026-04-03T05:43:44.526581 200 640ms