@skeems/musicbrainz

Read-only MusicBrainz adapter for skeem.

adapter: musicbrainz
connection:
  url: https://musicbrainz.org   # or a mirror

No authentication. The client sends a descriptive User-Agent and enforces MusicBrainz's ~1 request/second etiquette in-process.

Tier: Read

Collections map to the six core entity types, keyed by MBID: artists, release_groups, releases, recordings, works, labels.

skeem get artists 5b11f4ce-a62d-471e-81fc-a69a8278c7da --json   # Nirvana
skeem find artists --where name=Nirvana --json
skeem find release_groups --where title=Nevermind --json

get includes the entity's URL relationships:

• externalIds (shared vocabulary — see docs/reference/external-ids.md): wikidata, imdb, viaf, isni, plus URL-valued official_website/wikipedia.
• links — every other relationship type as raw URLs keyed by the MusicBrainz relation name (discogs, allmusic, last.fm, …).

find searches by name/title (quoted Lucene phrase; q=/search= also accepted), supports --limit/--offset, and --where id=<mbid> returns a summary. There is no reverse search by external id — pivot in via the Wikidata hub instead (skeem find items --where label=… --adapter wikidata, then read externalIds.musicbrainz_artist).

Writes (create/update/delete) and schema mutation are rejected as read-only. MusicBrainz dates are partial ("1991", "1991-09") and surface as strings.