Soundcloud API Get current track name without widget - soundcloud

Question

Is it possible via the SoundCloud API to get the current playing trackname ? Via the widget it's ok but it will be better (UX point of view) if I could without.
I found nobody mention it, if you have an idea, you're welcome !
Thx

Answer 1

I'm currently looking to do the same thing. Seems that the only way to do it via the API is to use what they call "activities" : https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/reference#activities
So you can have a list of all activities made by a user, which includes the listening of a track. But I assume the activity will appear in the list only once the music has been played, not while the music plays.
Has anyone already used that functionnality ?
Regards,
Seb

Answer 2

I coded this litlle script that bind DOM's updates but it's very tricky.
// Bind new song on the soundcloud player
$('.playbackSoundBadge').bind('DOMSubtreeModified', function(e){
track_info = e.target;
if(track_info.className.indexOf('sc-media-image') > -1){
thumb = track_info.querySelector('span');
if(thumb != null){
splitted_url = track_info.href.split(/\//);
playing.artist = splitted_url[3];
playing.trackname = splitted_url[4];
thumb = track_info.querySelector('span');
playing.thumbnail = standardizeThumb(thumb.style.backgroundImage);
toaster(playing);
}
}
});
// Toast factory
function toaster(playing){
// Is there already a toast ?
toast = document.getElementById('sc-toast');
if(toast == null){
toast = document.createElement('div');
toast.id = 'sc-toast';
document.body.appendChild(toast);
}else{
toast.innerHTML = '';
}
// Build our toast
thumb = document.createElement('img');
thumb.src = playing.thumbnail;
toast.appendChild(thumb);
wrapper = document.createElement('div');
wrapper.className = 'wrapper-text';
playing.artist = standardizeString(playing.artist);
playing.trackname = standardizeString(playing.trackname);
artist = document.createElement('h1');
artist.innerHTML = playing.artist;
trackname = document.createElement('h2');
trackname.innerHTML = playing.trackname;
wrapper.appendChild(artist);
wrapper.appendChild(trackname);
toast.appendChild(wrapper);
}