Play Public Instance – Django REST framework

Information about plays

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

GET /v2/plays/3639952/?format=api

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

{
    "id": 3639952,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3639952/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-04-09T16:06:12-07:00",
    "show": 66409,
    "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66409/?format=api",
    "image_uri": "https://dn721802.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e252c4b5-9bf2-4109-8e26-d1d9ad06c6f9/mbid-e252c4b5-9bf2-4109-8e26-d1d9ad06c6f9-43221985537_thumb500.jpg",
    "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721802.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e252c4b5-9bf2-4109-8e26-d1d9ad06c6f9/mbid-e252c4b5-9bf2-4109-8e26-d1d9ad06c6f9-43221985537_thumb250.jpg",
    "song": "This Is the Place",
    "track_id": "89683280-f9cf-4bd3-9529-998d202f0581",
    "recording_id": "8797be8f-340b-4175-b015-85efd59cc85e",
    "artist": "Joshua Idehen",
    "artist_ids": [
        "3fc0070f-6b5b-4fc3-b5d3-afc87c80354a"
    ],
    "album": "I Know You’re Hurting, Everyone Is Hurting, Everyone Is Trying, You Have Got to Try.",
    "release_id": "e252c4b5-9bf2-4109-8e26-d1d9ad06c6f9",
    "release_group_id": "39c4632c-621e-4207-afa6-48e74166399a",
    "labels": [
        "Heavenly Recordings"
    ],
    "label_ids": [
        "696ee2f4-c486-4e7a-80f4-cfd85193677a"
    ],
    "release_date": "2026-03-06",
    "rotation_status": "Medium",
    "is_local": false,
    "is_request": false,
    "is_live": false,
    "comment": "Joshua Idehen is a British-born Nigerian based in Sweden. A spoken word artist, musician and facilitator, he has contributed poems to Mercury-nominated albums Channel by The Comet Is Coming, Your Queen Is A Reptile and the Mobo-winning Black To The Future, both by Sons of Kemet.",
    "location": 1,
    "location_name": "Default",
    "play_type": "trackplay"
}