Ground Rules

We want to be as flexible as possible with our APIs; if you have an interesting use of our platform, we want to help. Here are some basic ground rules that all developers should abide by when using the APIs.

Use common sense. If you're unsure, ask us.

Our terms of service allow for most reasonable non-commercial uses. If you're doing something you think might be a problem or if you have any questions, just contact us at >developer@echonest.com .

Read the Terms of Service.

Before you start developing anything using the Echo Nest API, you need to read and abide by the full Terms of Service.

Do not use the APIs for commercial use.

The Echo Nest's APIs are for non-commercial purposes only. If you are a lone developer selling advertising that is barely covering your running costs, we consider that non-commercial. If you are are a company writing paychecks, making plenty of money or driving a venture-capital-purchased MacBook Pro, you're probably commercial. Again, we want to be flexible and support many uses of the platform, so just contact us at developer@echonest.com if you have any questions about whether your use is commercial.

Credit.

Please give us due credit when using the Echo Nest API. Display an Echo Nest logo available on the logos page along with a link to www.echonest.com when displaying content provided by the APIs.

Don't do anything illegal.

Don't use the API in connection with anything that promotes or takes part in any products, services, or materials that we would consider malicious, hateful, or illegal.

Don't pretend the data is yours.

You may not sell, lease, share, transfer, or sublicense the API or access to the API to any other party than the API key holder. You can cache our data to lighten bandwidth and improve latency, but don't crawl/spider our APIs and make a copy of our data to steal our mojo.

Help us manage server and bandwidth costs.

Don't use the API in a manner that exceeds reasonable request volume, or constitutes excessive or abusive usage as determined by The Echo Nest.