LabelGrid CLI

@labelgrid/cli — the official command-line tool for LabelGrid, the music distribution platform. Manage your catalog, releases, files, analytics, royalty accounting, webhooks, and distribution from the terminal or from scripts. The CLI is a thin, typed wrapper over the LabelGrid public API — every rule and validation stays on the server, and --json gives you the raw API response for scripting.

Install

Node.js 20+ is required.

# Install globally
npm install -g @labelgrid/cli
labelgrid --version

# Or run on demand without installing
npx -y @labelgrid/cli auth whoami

The installed command is labelgrid.

Authentication

You need a LabelGrid API token. API access is part of LabelGrid's API plans: sign in to your LabelGrid dashboard, go to Profile → API Tokens, and create a token. Treat it like a password — never commit it or paste it into a shared chat.

The CLI resolves a token in this order:

1. LABELGRID_API_TOKEN environment variable — highest precedence; ideal for CI and one-off shells.
2. The stored token from labelgrid auth login — on macOS it lives in the system Keychain (the token never touches the filesystem); on other platforms in ~/.config/labelgrid/credentials, written mode 0600.
3. The --token <token> flag — lowest precedence; for CI systems that inject secrets as arguments.

# Interactive setup: paste the token when prompted (or pipe it in)
labelgrid auth login

# Verify which account the resolved token belongs to
labelgrid auth whoami

# Remove the stored token
labelgrid auth logout

In CI, prefer the environment variable:

export LABELGRID_API_TOKEN=...   # from your CI secret store
labelgrid catalog search --type release --json

The CLI never echoes a token: every byte written to stdout or stderr is scrubbed, so a token value cannot appear in output even if an API response echoes it back.

Environment variables

| Variable | Purpose | | --- | --- | | LABELGRID_API_TOKEN | Your API token (highest-precedence credential). | | LABELGRID_API_URL | Override the API base URL (the --api-url flag beats it). | | LABELGRID_TIMEOUT_MS | JSON request timeout in milliseconds, default 60000 (the --timeout flag beats it). | | LABELGRID_TRANSFER_TIMEOUT_MS | Upload/download transfer timeout in milliseconds, default 600000 (the --transfer-timeout flag beats it). |

Global flags

Every command accepts these, written before or after the subcommand:

| Flag | Purpose | | --- | --- | | --json | Print the raw API response as JSON (for scripts and jq). | | --token <token> | Supply a token on the command line (lowest precedence). | | --api-url <url> | Override the API base URL for this invocation. | | --yes | Skip confirmation prompts on destructive commands. | | --timeout <ms> | JSON request timeout in milliseconds (a bad value is ignored with a warning). | | --transfer-timeout <ms> | Upload/download transfer timeout in milliseconds. |

Transfer progress

When stderr is an interactive terminal, upload and download show a single, in-place line with the bytes transferred (and the total when known), refreshed about twice a second. Progress is silent when stderr is not a TTY (piped or redirected) or under --json, so scripts and machine-readable output are never polluted. Cover-art uploads use a small buffered request and show no incremental progress.

Command groups

Run labelgrid --help or labelgrid <group> --help for full usage. One example per group:

auth — authentication and token management

login, logout, whoami, token-revoke [--token-id <id>]

labelgrid auth whoami

catalog — labels, artists, writers, publishers, releases, tracks

search, get <id>, create, update <id>, delete <id> — pick the kind with --type label|artist|writer|publisher|release|track. search takes repeatable --filter k=v pairs (passed through verbatim — the API owns validation); create/update take the payload as --fields <json> or --fields-file <path>. Release and track creates honor --idempotency-key to dedupe a retried call.

labelgrid catalog search --type release --filter label_id=123 --per-page 20

release — the release lifecycle

validate <id> (safe, repeatable), distribute <id> (final, confirmed), takedown <id> (final, confirmed), confirm-review <id> (final, confirmed), landing-config <id>, short-url <id>

labelgrid release validate 456

track — alias guidance

Tracks are catalog entities; labelgrid track prints the equivalent catalog --type track commands.

labelgrid catalog search --type track --filter release_id=456

upload — finalized asset uploads

labelgrid upload <file> --track <id>|--release <id> --type stereo|dolby|lyrics|cover-art|motion-square|motion-tall. Track types (stereo, dolby, lyrics) need --track; release types (cover-art, motion-square, motion-tall) need --release.

labelgrid upload ./master.wav --track 789 --type stereo

download — track audio and statement files

--track <id> --type audio_16|audio_24|audio_32|preview_full|preview_clip, or --statement <invoice> --type csv|invoice. Both write to --out <absolute-path>; add --force to overwrite an existing file.

labelgrid download --statement INV12345 --type csv --out /tmp/statement.csv

asset — delete a track or release asset file

labelgrid asset delete --track <id> --type stereo|dolby|lyrics or --release <id> --type motion-square|motion-tall. Allowed only while the parent release is an editable draft.

labelgrid asset delete --track 789 --type lyrics

license — track license documents (cover/sample clearances)

list, add, update, delete — files are .pdf/.jpg/.jpeg/.png.

labelgrid license add --track 789 --file ./clearance.pdf --type cover

statement — royalty statements

list (with --filter and --group-by release), get <invoice>

labelgrid statement list --filter start_date=2026-01-01 --filter end_date=2026-03-31

transactions — account transactions

labelgrid transactions list --group-by release

royalties — royalty breakdowns and artificial-streaming data

breakdown (cursor-paginated; --group-by is an ordered subset of track,dsp,release,territory,period), artificial-streams, artificial-fee --period YYYY-MM

labelgrid royalties breakdown --group-by release,dsp --filter start_date=2026-01-01

analytics — streaming analytics

get --start <date> --end <date> --metrics <list> (max 400-day window; 1-12 section keys per request), optionally --platform, --release-id, --isrc, --upc. availability prints the section-by-platform availability matrix and each platform's reporting cadence (daily or weekly).

labelgrid analytics get --start 2026-06-01 --end 2026-06-28 --metrics streams,listeners
labelgrid analytics availability

webhook — webhook subscriptions

list, get <id>, create, update <id>, delete <id>, test <id>, rotate-secret <id>, logs <id>. create/update take --fields <json> or --fields-file <path> with name, url (the HTTPS endpoint receiving deliveries), and events (the event-subscription object — see the API documentation for the event types). The create response carries the signing secret ONCE — store it to verify incoming payloads.

labelgrid webhook create --fields-file ./hook.json
labelgrid webhook logs 42

review — release review issues and QC reports

issues --release <id>, quality-report --release <id> [--refresh], note --issue <id> --text <t>. Preflight QC is an optional add-on; without it the API returns a 403, surfaced verbatim.

labelgrid review issues --release 456

beatport — Beatport onboarding

enable --label <id> — a one-time request that cannot be un-requested (confirmed).

labelgrid beatport enable --label 123

--json and scripting

By default the CLI prints human-readable tables and key: value text. With --json it prints the raw API response to stdout, so it composes with jq and shell pipelines:

# Every live release id
labelgrid catalog search --type release --filter is_live=1 --json | jq -r '.data[].id'

# Bulk operations are shell loops (with --yes for non-interactive confirms)
labelgrid catalog search --type track --filter release_id=456 --json \
  | jq -r '.data[].id' \
  | while read -r id; do labelgrid catalog get "$id" --type track --json; done

Exit codes: 0 success · 1 API or structured error · 2 usage error (bad flags/arguments). Errors print as one line CODE: message on stderr; under --json the error JSON is also printed to stdout, so a pipeline can parse failures too:

NOT_FOUND: No release found with that id.

Common codes match the API: TOKEN_INVALID (401), FORBIDDEN (403), NOT_FOUND (404), VALIDATION_FAILED (422, with field errors), RATE_LIMITED (429), SERVER_ERROR (5xx), plus local ones such as NO_TOKEN, INVALID_PATH, FILE_EXISTS, and NETWORK_ERROR.

Destructive commands and confirmation

Destructive commands — catalog delete, release distribute, release takedown, asset delete, license delete, webhook delete, webhook rotate-secret, auth token-revoke, beatport enable — prompt before acting:

About to distribute release 456 to the stores.
Type y to confirm:

Anything other than y/yes aborts (exit 1) before any API call. Pass --yes to skip the prompt in scripts.

How this differs from the LabelGrid MCP server: the MCP server is driven by an AI agent, so its consequential actions are gated behind environment variables including an explicit acknowledgment sentence — nothing at runtime can ask a human. At a terminal, you are present for every command: the interactive confirmation (or your deliberate --yes) is the acknowledgment, so the CLI needs no environment arming.

Download & upload safety

Downloads write with a deliberate discipline:

• --out must be an absolute path whose parent directory exists (symlinked parents are resolved; a dangling link is rejected).
• The write is exclusive: an existing file is never overwritten — you get FILE_EXISTS unless you pass --force.
• Track audio downloads fetch a short-lived signed URL from the API and then download the bytes directly from storage — your API token is never sent to the storage host.

Uploads are guarded before any byte leaves your machine:

• Each --type has a file-extension allowlist (for example stereo accepts .wav/.flac/.aif/.aiff; cover-art accepts common image formats), so the CLI cannot be pointed at an arbitrary file.
• Symlinks are resolved first and the allowlist is applied to the real target.
• The parent flag must match the type: track asset types require --track, release asset types require --release.
• Uploaded assets become immutable once the release is distributed — upload final files before distributing.

License

MIT © LabelGrid