SoundCloud Scraper 🎧

Scrape SoundCloud tracks, artists, play counts, likes, reposts and comments — by search query or URL. No login, no API key, no user token.

This actor extracts music and creator intelligence straight from SoundCloud's public catalog. Feed it search terms or SoundCloud URLs and get back clean, structured JSON: track title, artist, play count, likes, reposts, comments, genre, release date, artwork and description. Perfect for music discovery, A&R research, creator analytics and trend tracking.

💸 Cheap by design. Runs on 512 MB and datacenter proxies — expect roughly $0.50 per 1,000 tracks.

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✨ Features

• 🔎 Search mode — turn any query (lofi, techno mix, phonk, an artist name) into a ranked list of matching tracks.
• 🔗 Resolve mode — paste SoundCloud track, playlist or artist URLs and get their tracks.
• 📊 Full engagement metrics — plays, likes, reposts, comments per track.
• 👤 Artist attribution — artist name and profile URL on every row.
• ⚡ No credentials — a public client_id is auto-extracted from SoundCloud at runtime and cached.
• 🧱 Datacenter-friendly — no residential proxy required.
• 🧾 Tabular output — flat schema, one row per track, ready for CSV / Excel / Google Sheets.

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🚀 Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	select	search (queries → tracks) or resolve (URLs → tracks). Default search.
queries	array	Search terms for search mode. Prefill: ["lofi", "techno mix"].
urls	array	SoundCloud track / playlist / artist URLs for resolve mode.
maxItems	integer	Max tracks total. Default 100, max 1000.

Example — search

{
  "mode": "search",
  "queries": ["lofi", "techno mix"],
  "maxItems": 200
}

Example — resolve

{
  "mode": "resolve",
  "urls": ["https://soundcloud.com/artist/track-name"],
  "maxItems": 50
}

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📤 Output

Each item is one track:

{
  "id": 1068221248,
  "title": "She Neva Know Lofi Ver",
  "artist": "Tien Pham",
  "artist_url": "https://soundcloud.com/tien-pham-418156952",
  "url": "https://soundcloud.com/tien-pham-418156952/she-neva-know-lofi-ver",
  "duration_ms": 165218,
  "duration_sec": 165.218,
  "plays": 2458201,
  "likes": 9749,
  "reposts": 192,
  "comments": 54,
  "genre": "Lofi",
  "created_at": "2021-06-14T15:40:10Z",
  "artwork": "https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-large.jpg",
  "description": "…",
  "source": "soundcloud",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-20T10:00:00Z"
}

Every field is nullable — the actor never breaks on a missing value.

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🎯 Use cases

• 🎵 Music discovery — surface rising tracks in any genre or mood.
• 🧑‍🎤 Artist & A&R research — scout independent artists by their real play/like/repost numbers.
• 📈 Creator analytics — benchmark a catalog's engagement over time.
• 🔥 Trend tracking — monitor how genres (phonk, lofi, hyperpop, techno) move week over week.

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🔁 Related actors

• Deezer Music Scraper
• MusicBrainz Scraper
• YouTube Search Scraper
• Podcast Intelligence Scraper

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❓ FAQ

Do I need a SoundCloud account or API key? No. The actor extracts a public client_id from SoundCloud's own web bundle and uses the public api-v2 endpoints.

Is it reliable? SoundCloud rotates its client_id; the actor re-extracts a fresh one on every run, so it self-heals. If your IP/region is blocked the run fails loudly with a clear message.

How much does it cost? Around $0.50 per 1,000 tracks — it runs on 512 MB with datacenter proxies.

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⚖️ Legal

Scrapes only publicly available data. You are responsible for complying with SoundCloud's Terms of Service and applicable law (including GDPR) when using the output.

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