SoundCloud API
Connect with the world’s largest music and audio platform
This API is best for connecting with the world's largest music and audio platform and integrating it into existing applications and services.
The SoundCloud API allows developers to integrate their applications with SoundCloud. With the API, users can access tracks, artists, and albums to listen to directly from their applications. The API also provides access to comments, tags, and descriptions of tracks. SoundCloud also provides an easy to use, secure OAuth 2.0 authentication service to control access to users' data. This provides a simple and secure way to authorize and use SoundCloud services from within an application.
Key features
- Playback of tracks from SoundCloud
- discovery and search of tracks
- support for secure OAuth 2.0 authentication
- access to comments
- tags and descriptions of tracks
- support for JavaScript and REST API
Potential use cases
- Search & Recommendation: Create a search & recommend service through which users can discover relevant audio content within SoundCloud based on their interests and interactions.
- Music Marketplace: Create a marketplace which connects users to music producers and songwriters on SoundCloud so they can buy, download and remix music.
- Social Network: Create a social network from which users can interact, comment and share content from SoundCloud.
The SoundCloud API helps me to quickly and easily add all of my favorite music to my website and has been a great experience for me as a developer.
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- Spotify API
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