OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
title: SoundCloud Playlists API
version: 1.0.0
summary: SoundCloud REST API for tracks, users, playlists, search, social actions, and streaming.
description: 'The SoundCloud HTTP API exposes endpoints for tracks (upload, metadata,
streaming, comments), users (/me, profile actions), playlists (CRUD),
search/discovery, and social actions (follow, like). Authentication uses
OAuth 2.1 with PKCE. Access tokens expire approximately every hour.
The token endpoint is on secure.soundcloud.com; all resource endpoints are
on api.soundcloud.com.
'
contact:
name: SoundCloud Developers
url: https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/guide
servers:
- url: https://api.soundcloud.com
description: SoundCloud REST API
security:
- oauth2:
- non-expiring
tags:
- name: Playlists
description: Playlist CRUD
paths:
/playlists:
post:
tags:
- Playlists
summary: Create a playlist
operationId: createPlaylist
responses:
'201':
description: Playlist created
/playlists/{id}:
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Id'
get:
tags:
- Playlists
summary: Get playlist (with optional tracks)
operationId: getPlaylist
parameters:
- name: show_tracks
in: query
schema:
type: boolean
description: Set to false to exclude tracks from the response
responses:
'200':
description: Playlist details
put:
tags:
- Playlists
summary: Update playlist metadata or tracks
operationId: updatePlaylist
responses:
'200':
description: Playlist updated
components:
parameters:
Id:
name: id
in: path
required: true
schema:
type: string
securitySchemes:
oauth2:
type: oauth2
description: 'OAuth 2.1 with PKCE. Access tokens are short-lived (~1 hour). Use
Authorization: OAuth {ACCESS_TOKEN} on each request.
'
flows:
authorizationCode:
authorizationUrl: https://secure.soundcloud.com/authorize
tokenUrl: https://secure.soundcloud.com/oauth/token
scopes:
non-expiring: Non-expiring refresh-token grant
clientCredentials:
tokenUrl: https://secure.soundcloud.com/oauth/token
scopes: {}