Looking for API Call providing writer, composer, cover recording details

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Hello
I’m lookin to find detailed information of a release, e.g. writer/composer, cover recording e.g. for the song “Love in vain”, composer etc in, e.g. here the below link.
[https://musicbrainz.org/release/a2151a7b-d584-3d93-9d7f-b72da6bbcaa0](htt

I would like to find the exact same info by using the API. The json link under TAB: Details suggests:
Release info json Link
Unfortunately the info is not the same. I tried all kind of different API calls, using artist credits, but whatever I do, I cannot find the same level of detailed information. Can somebody help, please?

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It sounds like you look for information related to the Recording or Work entity.

The release json will give you the recording MBID (in media[0].tracks[1].recording.id).

The recording json will give you the “cover” attribute and the link to the work (with the “work-rels” parameter): relations[0].work.id

The work json will give you the composer (with the “artist-rels” parameter)

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So if you’re writing your own tagger, you have no choice but to spawn an additional 2 web requests for every track on a release - waiting one second between each one to comply with API limits. Yikes… :smiley:

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I think this ticket seems related:

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Hi, thank you so much. I thought I tried everything…obviously not!! :smiley: Super!!

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In case you want to have the recording details for all tracks of your example release at once, use this query: https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/a2151a7b-d584-3d93-9d7f-b72da6bbcaa0?inc=recordings+recording-rels+artist-rels+recording-level-rels+work-level-rels+work-rels&fmt=json

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Ah that’s good info. Thanks.