Getting a SoundCloud API client ID

Question

Encountered a problem accessing my tracks from browser. Usually i type this link in my browser to access downloadable tracks:

http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/294324164/download?client_id=02gUJC0hH2ct1EGOcYXQIzRFU91c72Ea

But now i can not access it anymore, probably the client id is changed. How can i obtain a new client id?

Thanks.

Wolfson

Answer 1

Simple.. Go to any tracks that you can download on soundcloud, press f12 and look at networks tab, click download and it will show you something like

https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/322109493/download?client_id=2t9loNQH90kzJcsFCODdigxfp325aq4z&oauth_token=2-274121-85658-y9KQYyZ6qG9oT2uvPq

Grab that client_id, replace it and amend the url from download? to stream?.. use streams? if you want a list of urls in json format

http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/294324164/stream?client_id=2t9loNQH90kzJcsFCODdigxfp325aq4z

Atombomb

Unfortunately now almost every track than can be downloaded links to an external site... – Bunnie

Answer 2

As no one else has mentioned it, in a Chrome-based browser under DevTools ctrl+shift+i, you can grab your client_id from the Network tab on reload. Many items listed here reference the SoundCloud API and require your client_id to access it. Simply click any item in the list that isn't an image/base64 item (preferably something that begins with id?...), then check the Request URL for a client_id.

It's the simplest way to grab the ID; now that you know how, don't do anything illegal k thx.

For those thinking this is the same as the other answer mentioning a download link, this method skips that entirely as many songs are no longer available from SoundCloud itself, but from external sources that are linked instead.

Amazing it's been this long, yet there's no "public" Soundcloud API. I'm amazed to find something worse off than the Twitch API.

Germanophile

Answer 3

See this user's solution for a way to do this without a CLIENT ID which you can no longer get from soundcloud: https://mcmap.net/q/609886/-how-to-get-soundcloud-embed-code-by-soundcloud-com-url

Uwton

Answer 4

youtube-dl https://soundcloud.com/my-fav-artist seems to work and pull all tracks as mp3 no client_id needed, if you needed the client_id to get something like soundcloud-dl to work

Polivy

Answer 5

You can apply for a client ID by filling in the SoundCloud Application Registration form.

Court

Soundcloud no longer be processing API application requests. as you can see at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/… – Audacious

Doesn't make this a wrong answer, because that should be the right way.. – Ionia

Is there perhaps an alternate way to get a client ID? – Querulous

@PetrusTheron I have a similar question I am wondering if you can have a look. – Cicatrix