SoundCloud Tracks API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: SoundCloud Playlists Tracks 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: Tracks
  description: Track CRUD, streaming, and comments
paths:
  /tracks:
    get:
      tags:
      - Tracks
      summary: Search tracks
      operationId: searchTracks
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Free-text query against title and description
      - name: genres
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: access
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: bpm
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: duration
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: ids
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: linked_partitioning
        in: query
        schema:
          type: boolean
        description: Enable cursor pagination via next_href
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Track collection
    post:
      tags:
      - Tracks
      summary: Upload audio file with metadata
      operationId: createTrack
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Track created
  /tracks/{id}:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Id'
    get:
      tags:
      - Tracks
      summary: Retrieve track
      operationId: getTrack
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Track details
    put:
      tags:
      - Tracks
      summary: Update track metadata and artwork
      operationId: updateTrack
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Track updated
  /tracks/{id}/stream:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Id'
    get:
      tags:
      - Tracks
      summary: Access transcoded streaming formats for a track
      operationId: getTrackStream
      responses:
        '302':
          description: Redirect to stream URL
  /tracks/{id}/comments:
    parameters:
    - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Id'
    get:
      tags:
      - Tracks
      summary: List comments on a track
      operationId: listTrackComments
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Comment collection
    post:
      tags:
      - Tracks
      summary: Add a timed or non-timed comment to a track
      operationId: createTrackComment
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Comment created
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: {}