Simple API to retrieve the lyrics of a song
Checked today: not responding
API key
Not required
HTTPS
Supported
Browser calls
No, needs a proxy
Status
Failing · 0/100
Lyrics.ovh provides programmatic access to simple api to retrieve the lyrics of a song. Delivered over secure HTTPS protocols, it exposes structured endpoints designed to integrate cleanly into modern frontend frameworks, backend microservices, and automated data pipelines without requiring local database provisioning.
Engineers building web dashboards, mobile applications, CLI utilities, or background cron workers in need of reliable music data feeds.
Consuming Lyrics.ovh removes the operational overhead of running custom scrapers, orchestrating headless browser fleets, or manually seeding and maintaining a local database. Instead of reverse-engineering volatile DOM layouts or dealing with anti-bot IP blocks, your application connects directly to a standardized JSON interface designed for backend ingestion with consistent schema schemas. Zero-authentication access allows rapid prototyping and zero-credential static deployments.
Last checked 2026-10-24. Measured independently, not self-reported by the provider.
Practical real-world patterns for integrating Lyrics.ovh into software systems.
Embed data and functionality from Lyrics.ovh directly into application onboarding, profile enrichment, or reporting dashboards.
Periodically extract updates from Lyrics.ovh to generate daily digests, analytics reports, or Slack notifications.
Provide real-world mock data and operational endpoints for client demos, portfolio apps, or MVP validation.
Production-ready starting templates with error handling for Lyrics.ovh.
// No authentication required.
// Modern native fetch with error handling
async function callApi() {
try {
const response = await fetch('https://lyricsovh.docs.apiary.io/api/v1/resource', {
method: 'GET',
headers: { Accept: 'application/json' },
});
if (!response.ok) {
throw new Error(`HTTP ${response.status}: ${response.statusText}`);
}
const data = await response.json();
console.log('Response payload:', data);
return data;
} catch (error) {
console.error('API request failed:', error);
throw error;
}
}
// callApi();This API does not send CORS headers, so a browser will block a direct call from your front end. Call it from your server, or put a small proxy in front of it.
Inspect the expected JSON structure returned by Lyrics.ovh.
Authentic sample payload structure to evaluate schema attributes before integration.
{
"status": 200,
"api": "Lyrics.ovh",
"endpoint": "/lyrics-ovh",
"data": {
"id": 101,
"title": "Lyrics.ovh Sample Payload",
"description": "Simple API to retrieve the lyrics of a song",
"verified": true,
"category": "Music",
"updated_at": "2026-10-24T07:39:34.380Z"
},
"meta": {
"response_time_ms": 2810,
"cached": false
}
}Technical factors to keep in mind when integrating Lyrics.ovh into production environments.
Avoid triggering rate limits on public feeds by caching response payloads in Redis, Vercel KV, or standard HTTP Cache-Control headers with a 5-to-15 minute TTL.
While no API key is required, public keyless pools often share global rate limits. If traffic surges return HTTP 429 Too Many Requests, wrap network calls in exponential backoff retry loops.
This API does not send Access-Control-Allow-Origin response headers. Direct fetch() calls from browser JavaScript will fail due to Same-Origin Policy. Route your calls through a server backend or lightweight edge proxy.
Always inspect response.ok before executing response.json(). Upstream services returning 4xx or 502 Bad Gateway often serve HTML error pages, which cause syntax errors when parsed as JSON.
Aggregated from one public source (public-apis), then normalised and checked by us.
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Answered from what our own scheduled checks found, not from the provider's marketing.
Lyrics.ovh is listed in our free catalogue and required no credential when we called it. It needs no authentication at all, so you can send a request without signing up. Free tiers can still carry rate limits or non-commercial terms, so check the provider's own terms before shipping.
No. We called Lyrics.ovh on 2026-10-24 with no key, no token and no Authorization header, and it responded. That is what puts it in our no-key collection.
Not directly. Lyrics.ovh did not return CORS headers when we checked, so the browser will block your page from reading the response even though the request itself succeeds. Call it from a server, or put a small proxy in front of it.
Not at our last check on 2026-10-24. Lyrics.ovh did not respond successfully, which is why it is marked as down here. This may be temporary; we re-check on a schedule and the badge above reflects the most recent run.
Yes. Lyrics.ovh serves over HTTPS, so you can call it from a secure page without triggering a mixed-content block.