Play Public Instance – Django REST framework

Information about plays

list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID

GET /v2/plays/3618176/?format=api

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 3618176,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3618176/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-02-16T05:54:59-08:00",
    "show": 65948,
    "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65948/?format=api",
    "image_uri": "https://ia800508.us.archive.org/1/items/mbid-9ab0d7be-3de2-4681-9347-b24c23d99a6d/mbid-9ab0d7be-3de2-4681-9347-b24c23d99a6d-36604441620_thumb500.jpg",
    "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721801.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-9ab0d7be-3de2-4681-9347-b24c23d99a6d/mbid-9ab0d7be-3de2-4681-9347-b24c23d99a6d-36604441620_thumb250.jpg",
    "song": "Abel",
    "track_id": "e8b7a883-1c0a-39e5-9226-bb07f81aab15",
    "recording_id": "2aec11ea-da94-428f-b552-749037b8c428",
    "artist": "The National",
    "artist_ids": [
        "664c3e0e-42d8-48c1-b209-1efca19c0325"
    ],
    "album": "Alligator",
    "release_id": "75abcec3-1432-3b63-ba0a-9e49279e314f",
    "release_group_id": "8bebb379-ac9e-3283-b230-a2d3deae7346",
    "labels": [
        "Beggars Banquet"
    ],
    "label_ids": [
        "5917da67-b605-4a08-a5a0-a6874501dda4"
    ],
    "release_date": "2005-04-12",
    "rotation_status": "Library",
    "is_local": false,
    "is_request": false,
    "is_live": false,
    "comment": "The National's Matt Berninger has said about this song, which references Cain and Abel in the Bible, “This is a song about love… between two brothers”.\n\nMatt Berninger: “'Abel' used to be a ballad, not a very good one, until Bryan [Davendorf] switched to a pounding drumbeat and I started screaming.\"",
    "location": 1,
    "location_name": "Default",
    "play_type": "trackplay"
}