Radio & Music Services

Upmedia by Bbc Co Uk

BBC Radio & Music Services exposes broadcasts, categories, collections, podcasts, and popular music resources.

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Use it when

Covers both program metadata and music popularity resources

Watch for

This is a metadata/content API, not an audio streaming transport API

First check

Start with /broadcasts/latest or /experience/homepage, then expand to /music/popular/*, /collections/{pid}/members, or podcast-related resources once the response shape matches your content model.

Auth

—

CORS

HTTPS

Yes

Signup

Latency

785 ms

Protocol

REST

Pricing

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Uptime · 30-day window

Probes: 1Uptime: 100%Avg latency: 785ms

About this API

This is not a single-program lookup API. It acts as a content layer for BBC iPlayer Radio and BBC Music, with broadcasts, categories, collections, popular artists, playlists, and podcasts in one surface. Concrete nouns in the spec include "/broadcasts", "/broadcasts/latest", "/broadcasts/{pid}", and "/categories" and tags such as "Experience", "Playspace", and "Categories".

That is enough to support build a broadcast catalog or archive page, sync popular artists, playlists, and tracks, and aggregate categories, collections, and podcasts into an audio product. The current material does not spell out a detailed security flow.

This is a metadata/content API, not an audio streaming transport API The spec exposes little auth detail

What you can build

1Build a broadcast catalog or archive page
2Sync popular artists, playlists, and tracks
3Aggregate categories, collections, and podcasts into an audio product

Strengths & limitations

Strengths

Covers both program metadata and music popularity resources
broadcasts/latest and experience/homepage fit homepage assembly well
The paths are straightforward for content ingestion

Limitations

This is a metadata/content API, not an audio streaming transport API
The spec exposes little auth detail

Example request

Generic template — replace <endpoint> with the real path from the docs.

curl https://bbc.co.uk/<endpoint>

Getting started