Play Public Instance – Django REST framework

Information about plays

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

GET /v2/plays/3638274/?format=api

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

{
    "id": 3638274,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3638274/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-04-05T17:05:14-07:00",
    "show": 66375,
    "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66375/?format=api",
    "image_uri": "https://dn710900.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-0a1bfbbb-97c1-450e-ac67-d1aec9e1944c/mbid-0a1bfbbb-97c1-450e-ac67-d1aec9e1944c-14290671684_thumb500.jpg",
    "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710900.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-0a1bfbbb-97c1-450e-ac67-d1aec9e1944c/mbid-0a1bfbbb-97c1-450e-ac67-d1aec9e1944c-14290671684_thumb250.jpg",
    "song": "This Little Light",
    "track_id": "1629e2b1-e62b-3744-876f-c5d64a37d100",
    "recording_id": "d580695f-13a8-46a6-b594-40e2bad2e211",
    "artist": "Mavis Staples",
    "artist_ids": [
        "04f57a2d-2449-400e-8fff-5b1c5af9560b"
    ],
    "album": "Live: Hope at the Hideout",
    "release_id": "0a1bfbbb-97c1-450e-ac67-d1aec9e1944c",
    "release_group_id": "973c9a1e-500e-3017-853e-4c724a9d8882",
    "labels": [
        "Anti‐"
    ],
    "label_ids": [
        "5b8cf470-f162-4ee3-9b9f-77ff4ee0c601"
    ],
    "release_date": "2008-11-04",
    "rotation_status": "Library",
    "is_local": false,
    "is_request": false,
    "is_live": false,
    "comment": "Mavis Staples will be touring!\nIn the PNW you can catch Mavis in Bend, OR @ Hayden Home Amphitheater!\nMore dates & locales here: https://mavisstaples.com/tour\n--\nThis was the 1st live album released by Staples.  It was recorded at the Hideout Inn in Chicago.",
    "location": 1,
    "location_name": "Default",
    "play_type": "trackplay"
}