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how to get a stream from a simple soundcloud URL?

I am using Javascript to create yet another custom player for SoundCloud and SoundManager2.

I am able to play a stream from a URI like api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1928712958, but I would like to use a Soundcloud url (like http://soundcloud.com/damianmarley/skrillex-damian-marley-make-it) as the input.

How can I do it?

Solution

  • First of all you need to create your own app on sound cloud

    After creating app you git

    Now you can call soundcloud APIs, but you need to know the userId or PlaylistId or TrackId

    To know ID of user we can use /resolve function

    Assume user link is

    https://soundcloud.com/a-salem-2

    TO know user ID we use resolve function as below

    http://api.soundcloud.com/resolve.json?url=https://soundcloud.com/a-salem-2&client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID

    That will give you userId, In my case it was [75258312]

    To get user tracks

    https://api.soundcloud.com/users/75258312/tracks.json?client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID

    Hope that help :)