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SoundCloud track

Beta GET /v1/soundcloud/track

GET /v1/soundcloud/track

Title, artist, duration, play, like and comment counts, genre, license, ISRC and release date.

  • Cost: 1 credit
  • Status: Beta. Built and tested against recorded responses; the shape may still gain fields.
  • Cache: Results are kept up to 30 days; send max_age_days to reuse them for free.
  • Timeout: A request still running after about 25 seconds answers 202 with a job to poll (Batch and jobs).

Parameters#

NameTypeRequiredDescription
urlURLyesTrack URL (soundcloud.com/<user>/<track>). Accepted hosts: soundcloud.com, on.soundcloud.com.

Every request also accepts:

  • trim: true for a smaller response without null fields and extra.
  • raw: true to also get the platform's original object as raw.
  • max_age_days: accept a cached result up to this many days old, for 0 credits (Caching).

Example request#

Set your key in the environment first (see Authentication).

curl
curl -G "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/soundcloud/track" \
  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "url=https://soundcloud.com/flume/all-of-the-worlds"
Python
import os
import requests

params = {
    "url": "https://soundcloud.com/flume/all-of-the-worlds",
}
res = requests.get(
    "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/soundcloud/track",
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY"]},
    params=params,
)
body = res.json()

if body["ok"]:
    print(body["data"])
else:
    print(body["error"]["code"], body["error"]["message"])
TypeScript
const url = new URL("https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/soundcloud/track");
url.search = new URLSearchParams({
  "url": "https://soundcloud.com/flume/all-of-the-worlds"
}).toString();
const res = await fetch(url, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY! },
});
const body = await res.json();

if (body.ok) {
  console.log(body.data);
} else {
  console.error(body.error.code, body.error.message);
}
n8n
{
  "nodes": [
    {
      "name": "SocialScrape SoundCloud track",
      "type": "n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest",
      "typeVersion": 4.2,
      "position": [
        0,
        0
      ],
      "parameters": {
        "method": "GET",
        "url": "https://api.socialscrape.io/v1/soundcloud/track",
        "sendQuery": true,
        "queryParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "url",
              "value": "https://soundcloud.com/flume/all-of-the-worlds"
            }
          ]
        },
        "sendHeaders": true,
        "headerParameters": {
          "parameters": [
            {
              "name": "x-api-key",
              "value": "={{ $env.SOCIALSCRAPE_API_KEY }}"
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "connections": {}
}

Example response#

This is a sample from a recorded response. Status 200.

{
  "ok": true,
  "credits_charged": 1,
  "credits_remaining": 4999,
  "cached": false,
  "cached_at": null,
  "request_id": "req_2ad9cbd9d843278076e5d687",
  "data": {
    "object": "song",
    "platform": "soundcloud",
    "id": "2119863225",
    "url": "https://soundcloud.com/flume/all-of-the-worlds",
    "title": "All Of The Worlds",
    "artists": [
      "Emma Louise, Flume"
    ],
    "album": "DUMB",
    "duration_seconds": 125.78,
    "cover_url": "https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-bvBQ1BhZQSM2-0-t500x500.jpg",
    "preview_url": null,
    "released_at": "2025-08-22",
    "isrc": "US38Y2548239",
    "explicit": false,
    "is_original": null,
    "stats": {
      "plays": 36627,
      "uses": null,
      "likes": 1090
    },
    "extra": {
      "c_line": "© 2025 Flume",
      "comment_count": 23,
      "commentable": true,
      "contains_music": true,
      "created_at": "2025-06-26T13:01:21Z",
      "display_date": "2025-08-22T00:00:00Z",
      "download_count": 0,
      "downloadable": false,
      "genre": "Electronic",
      "label_name": "Flume",
      "last_modified": "2025-09-13T03:28:11Z",
      "license": "all-rights-reserved",
      "monetization_model": "AD_SUPPORTED",
      "p_line": "℗ 2025 Flume",
      "policy": "MONETIZE",
      "public": true,
      "release_title": "All Of The Worlds",
      "reposts_count": 82,
      "sharing": "public",
      "state": "finished",
      "streamable": true,
      "upc": "5034644763842",
      "urn": "soundcloud:tracks:2119863225",
      "user": {
        "handle": "flume",
        "id": "2976616",
        "name": "Flume",
        "url": "https://soundcloud.com/flume",
        "verified": true
      },
      "user_id": 2976616,
      "waveform_url": "https://wave.sndcdn.com/0AX3G8zwAkiV_m.json",
      "writer_composer": "Harley Streten, Emma Louise Lobb"
    }
  },
  "cursor": null,
  "has_more": null
}

Response#

A Song object in data.

See Data models for every field. The envelope around data is described in Responses.

Errors#

Failures are free: credits_charged is 0. Branch on error.code, never on the message.

CodeHTTPRetryMeaning
invalid_params400noA parameter is missing, unknown or has the wrong type.
unsupported_url400noThe URL is not one this endpoint accepts (wrong platform or form).
not_found404noThe platform says this profile, post or item does not exist.

Every request can also fail with the account and platform errors listed on the Errors page.

Example error:

{
  "ok": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "unsupported_url",
    "message": "The URL is not one this endpoint accepts (wrong platform or form).",
    "retryable": false
  },
  "credits_charged": 0,
  "request_id": "req_30902058b8f40488385657e1"
}