Welcome developers!

Here you’ll find the SoundCloud API documentation and links to related resources. Good luck and happy coding!

Getting Started

• Take a look at the API documentation and the code sample.
• Check out the list of available API wrappers.
• Read our guide for implementing Connect with SoundCloud and the OAuth examples to learn more about authentication.
• For authenticated access to the API you need to register your application.
• Try calling methods and monitor the responses using our console.
• Join the SoundCloud API Google group and follow @soundcloudapi on twitter to get the latest news.

Contact

Join our Google group for news and support.
We are also happy to receive API related questions and feedback via api@soundcloud.com.

Table of Contents

• 01 Introduction
  • Getting Started
  • Simple Use Case – Uploading an audio file
• 02 Authentication
  • Basic HTTP
  • OAuth
• 03 Resource Types
  • User
  • Track
  • Playlist (Set)
  • Group
  • Comment
  • Event
    • Comment
    • Track
    • Fan
    • Favorite
• 04 Response Formats
• 05 Request Content Types
• 06 Cross Site Scripting
  • JSONP
• 07 Collections
  • Partitions
• 08 Client Forward Compatibility
• 09 Tags
  • Machine Tags
• 10 Resources
  • users
  • tracks
  • tracks cont.
  • playlists
  • groups
  • comments
  • events
    • DropBox

Other

• Links to external libraries
• How to use the oEmbed API
• Graphics to use on the web
• Some ideas for what you could do