<elomatreb[m]> "what specifically are you..." <- I'm looking for the archive itself. i understand that there is a database for the cover artworks independently from the rest of the data. i am looking to search an artist \ album and that the search gives back artworks.
2025-07-20 20121, 2025
M7adsh[m]
ideally id be able to download a collection of artworks for a personal project im working on
2025-07-20 20128, 2025
elomatreb[m]
I'm not sure if there is a bulk export of the images from the CAA available somewhere, since that would be very large compared to the other datasets MB normally deals with
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sanojjonas[m]
The api also only works with releases. So i guess what you need to do is fetch all releases for an artist and then fetch the images release by release… and then download the image i guess… https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Cover_Art_Archive/API
2025-07-20 20154, 2025
sanojjonas[m]
But maybe somebody could build a userscript to do that?
2025-07-20 20130, 2025
M7adsh[m]
<elomatreb[m]> "I'm not sure if there is a..." <- the thing is that i am not even able to access the full database online. before even downloading. i need to be on musicbrainz, search the release and click on the cover art tab. i was hoping to get something more refined for artwork only
2025-07-20 20148, 2025
M7adsh[m]
sanojjonas[m]: That would be a dream, if i even knew what that meant 😅 but the link you sent is very helpful thanks! if you have any other tips im all ears
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sanojjonas[m]
I don’t know if you know what userscripts are, but mainly it is code that run within a page. So with that you can add a download button to a page on musicbrainz for instance. Pressing that button would run code that fetches all releases groups from that artist, then fetch the images one by one. And then download it (i guess, not really sure on the download part yet)
2025-07-20 20141, 2025
elomatreb[m]
@7adsh your best avenue for building that dataset is probably downloading a musicbrainz data dump, collecting the list of release ids you need from that, and then downloading the images using the API
2025-07-20 20113, 2025
elomatreb[m]
Alternatively you might contact the internet archive if you really need a dump of the whole dataset
