Authorized network consumers should use the extrachill/artist-get ability for one published artist profile. It is exposed through the WordPress Abilities REST surface and accepts an id integer.

The response is authoritative on the Artist Platform site and contains:

• id, name, slug, and permalink
• bio from the artist profile post content
• profile_image_id / profile_image_url and header_image_id / header_image_url
• local_city for the hometown or local scene and genre for the artist style
• official_links, normalized from the artist-managed social-link store
• link_page_id when the artist has a link page

Only published artist_profile posts are returned. Draft, private, and missing profiles return invalid_artist, so cross-site consumers must not query post meta directly or duplicate the profile model.

Core REST Contract

artist_profile is a public CPT with show_in_rest enabled. Core /wp/v2/artist_profile/<id> exposes standard post content and featured_media (the profile image), but it does not expose the header image, local scene, genre, or normalized official links because those are Artist Platform metadata. Use extrachill/artist-get when those fields are needed together.

Latest Release

The Artist Platform does not currently store a latest-release field. Consumers must treat it as unavailable rather than infer it from social or link-page URLs. Add it only once an Artist Platform-owned release field has a defined editor and privacy contract.