Import iTunes Data to Google Sheets

iTunes is a well-known digital media player created by Apple. The iTunes Search API provides a way to search through its huge online database for information on content hosted by the iTunes Store and Apple Books Store. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to pull media data from the iTunes Search API directly into Google Sheets, using the free API Connector add-on.

• Part 1: Create your API Request URL
• Part 2: Enter values into API Connector
• Part 3: Notes and Expansions

PART 1: CREATE YOUR API REQUEST URL

We’ll follow the iTunes Search API documentation to access music details for a specific artist.

• API root & endpoint: https://itunes.apple.com/search
• Query String: ?term={search term}
• Query String Example: ?term=bag raiders

Putting it together, we get the full API Request URL:
https://itunes.apple.com/search?term=bag raiders

PART 2: ENTER YOUR VALUES INTO API CONNECTOR

We can now enter all our values into API Connector and import iTunes API data into Google Sheets.

1. Open up Google Sheets and click Add-ons > API Connector > Create New API Request.
2. In the Create Request interface, enter the Request URL we just created
   

3. This is a free, public API so we don’t need to enter any headers. Just leave this section blank.
4. Create a new tab. You can call it whatever you like, but here we’ll call it ‘iTunes’. While still in that tab, click ‘Set’ to use that tab as your data destination.
5. Name your request. Again we’ll call it ‘iTunes’
6. Click Run and a moment later you’ll see data about your music search query data in your Google Sheet:
   

1. Experiment with query strings as described in the documentation to see other types of iTunes data. For example, you can filter for movies with ‘blade’ in the title by entering https://itunes.apple.com/search?media=movie&term=blade.
2. By default, iTunes will return 50 records. To return more (or fewer) records, change the ‘limit’ parameter, e.g. https://itunes.apple.com/search?media=movie&term=blade&limit=10. The limit parameter accepts values between 1-200.