Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3619450/?format=api
{ "id": 3619450, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3619450/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-19T09:06:30-08:00", "show": 65973, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65973/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn711300.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-229cd073-5ffc-4dae-9e00-3fd573414379/mbid-229cd073-5ffc-4dae-9e00-3fd573414379-4233681873_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Best Friend", "track_id": "e1c426c0-f057-4058-97b4-0e35a793cf20", "recording_id": "7eb1fe8e-5b9d-4bc8-96fe-e3fccad88d5a", "artist": "The Beat", "artist_ids": [ "9727e632-c228-47f8-a7ae-398df94f00c7" ], "album": "I Just Can't Stop It", "release_id": "b2ae1470-5e36-4ca6-9844-99190d986791", "release_group_id": "114cb3a9-9732-3f59-8a46-73cc65a47d16", "labels": [ "Go-Feet Records" ], "label_ids": [ "140e7608-79f6-44f9-8a98-0c9e51bb2328" ], "release_date": "1980-05-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Happy birthday, Dave Wakeling! (b. 1957)\n\nDave Wakeling, who was a guitarist and vocalist in The English Beat, said, \"The song 'Best Friend,' I'm actually singing it to myself in the same mirror that 'Mirror in the Bathroom' was written in. It was actually my sister's bathroom in Birmingham. 'Best Friend' was singing a song to a reflection, you know, I just found I'm your best friend - you.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }