How can I access SoundCloud-Stream URLs in Python?

Question

Some time ago I wrote a little tool for a friend of mine. I retrieved all stream-links (like this) from a soundlist and downloaded all those with a small python script.

Since begin of March, soundcloud must have changed something, and now my cronjob recieves 401 Unauthorized errors. I've read through the soundcloud API, but that whole Access Token does not really fit my needs.

Has anyone of you an idea of easily dealing with this problem? Thanks.

Answer 1

As Makoto said, 401 seems like you have lost priviledges to access through your OAuth token so I would double check to make sure your app is still available and that your tokens are correct. You can check on the Your Apps Page.

Also, I noticed that your url seemed a bit different than what the SC api shows. Once you resolve to get a proper track id, the convention for a stream url is:

http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/{id}/stream

This can be found in their track documentation.

Answer 2

Read the documentation here. You have to add your client_id parameter to the stream url and then you will be redirected to the stream link (mp3).