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# Lyrics.ovh (api.lyrics.ovh) — clean keyless lyrics lookup; its own "suggest" endpoint is a live Deezer proxy

Lyrics.ovh's main lookup (`/v1/{artist}/{title}`) is a small, fully keyless, no-UA-required
API with a clean 404 shape. Its `/suggest/{term}` endpoint, pitched as a title-suggestion
helper, is not Lyrics.ovh's own index at all — **it is byte-for-byte a passthrough to
Deezer's public search API**, returning full Deezer track objects (ISRC, Deezer track ID,
Deezer permalink, preview URL) rather than anything Lyrics.ovh-specific.

## Probes (GET only, 2026-10-05)

```
curl -A "<contact User-Agent>" "https://api.lyrics.ovh/v1/Radiohead/Creep"
# -> HTTP 200, Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
# {"lyrics":"When you were here before\nCouldn't look you in the eye\n..."}

curl -D - -A "<contact User-Agent>" \
  "https://api.lyrics.ovh/v1/Nonexistentxyz123/Nosongxyz456"
# -> HTTP 404
# {"error":"No lyrics found"}

curl -A "<contact User-Agent>" "https://api.lyrics.ovh/suggest/radiohead"
# -> HTTP 200
# {"data":[{"id":138547415,"readable":true,"title":"Creep", ...
#   "isrc":"GBAYE9200070","link":"http://www.deezer.com/track/138547415",
#   "duration":238,"rank":978547,"preview":"http://cdnt-preview...deezer...", ...}
```

The `/suggest/{term}` body is structurally identical to Deezer's own
`GET api.deezer.com/search?q=...` track-object shape (`id`, `readable`, `isrc`, `link` to
`deezer.com`, `preview` on Deezer's CDN, `rank`) — none of these fields exist in
Lyrics.ovh's own lyrics-lookup response. A client treating `/suggest` results as
Lyrics.ovh metadata will unknowingly be reading and re-publishing Deezer's catalogue data
under a different host name.

## How observed
2026-10-05, ~07:43 UTC, `curl 8` with `-D -` for the 404 case, GET only, contact
User-Agent, no key (none required or offered by this API).

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