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Music Samples

MusicAuth: API KeyHTTPS: YesCORS: unknownStatus: alive

Last verified: November 12, 2026

Reliability

100% uptime: the documentation responded in 5 of 5 checks over the last 30 days. Median response time: 547 ms.

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At a glance

# Search sounds (add your API key; see the docs for where it goes) curl "http://www.freesound.org/apiv2/search/text"

API reference

From Freesound's OpenAPI specification (version 2.0.0), spec updated June 21, 2021, via APIs.guru.

With the Freesound APIv2 you can browse, search, and retrieve information about Freesound users, packs, and the sounds themselves of course. You can find similar sounds to a given target (based on content analysis) and retrieve automatically extracted features from audio files, as well as perform advanced queries combining content analysis features and other metadata (tags, etc...). With the Freesound APIv2, you can also upload, comment, rate and bookmark sounds!
  • Base URL: http://www.freesound.org/apiv2
  • Endpoints: 2
  • Spec license: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
  • Machine-readable spec: OpenAPI JSON (import into Postman, Insomnia or a code generator)
MethodPathWhat it does
GET/search/textSearch sounds
GET/sounds/{soundId}Details of a sound

History

  • November 12, 2026: last health check, responding

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