How It Works ⚙️
Apple Music uses HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) to deliver their animated album artworks. Instead of serving a standard video file, they provide an .m3u8 playlist that chunks the video into tiny streaming segments.
Our backend extracts these hidden playlists directly from Apple's metadata. Then, the magic happens in your browser: We use a WebAssembly port of FFmpeg to fetch the raw segments, filter out repeating loops, and convert them into a MP4 or animated WebP download.
All video conversion happens locally on your device, ensuring lightning-fast downloads.
Tip: Navidrome, a self-hosted music server, supports animated WebP covers. Just manually upload the WebP file or put it as cover.webp in the album folder, and Navidrome will display the animation instead of the static image!
Public API Endpoints 🚀
You can use the API directly in your own projects. The base URL is https://artwork.m8tec.top.
/api/v1/artwork/search
Search by artist, album, and optional track name.
?artist=Gorillaz&album=Plastic+Beach&title=On+Melancholy+Hill
/api/v1/artwork/url
Extract directly from an Apple Music URL.
?url=https://music.apple.com/...
Open Source
Want to self-host or contribute? The complete source code including the Docker setup is available on GitHub.
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