Soundcloud: How do I know the sound cloud track ID right away after uploading a track? - soundcloud

Question

http://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api
When I look at the API docs, I see
SC.stream("/tracks/293", function(sound){
sound.play();
});
When I look at the track I uploaded, it only provides me the permalink. How do I get the track ID from the website? Do I always have to do a /resolve to get the ID?

Answer 1

This is probably more manual steps than /resolve, but it is "from the website." The sound id also appears in the embed code when you go to the sound and click "Share".
For example, if you go to a sound page, e.g.:
https://soundcloud.com/lowcountrykingdom/another-ordinary-day
Then click "Share", which brings up a pop up. Click "Embed" to switch to the embed tab, and copy the Embed code, which will look something like:
<iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/47580057&color=ff6600&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true"></iframe>
Note the ID in the value of the url query parameter:
url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/47580057

Answer 2

I'd use jquery ajax call to grab the data from Soundcloud. Say you save your variables permalink_url and client_id:
$.get('http://api.soundcloud.com/resolve.json?url='+
permalink_url+'/tracks&client_id='+client_id , function (result) {
console.log(result);
});
This should log an array of the songs. Check out this bin for reference http://jsbin.com/viviza/4/edit
Update: This answer is pretty old.
Soundclick docs https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api#uploading
The SC object now allows for getting the id's directly
SC.connect().then(function(){
return SC.get('/me/tracks');
}).then(function(tracks){
return tracks.map(function(track){
console.log("you can log the id here too: " + track.id")
return track.id
})
})

Answer 3

You could also get all the tracks from a given user id. Then use $.map() to place each of the tracks into an array. Call SC.stream() with song[i].id to play a random song from the array from the array of tracks.
SC.get('/users/123456/tracks/', function(tracks) {
// get an array of tracks
var song = $.map(tracks, function(i){
return i;
});
var i = Math.floor(Math.random() * song.length) // get a random value between 0 & the of songs in SC account -1
SC.stream(song[i].id, function(sound){
sound.play();
});
});

Answer 4

Using JavaScript to find the track data from a soundcloud song url:
let trackUrl = 'https://soundcloud.com/user-869590724/talk-to-animals-sentra-remix'
let client_id = '<your-client-id>'
let resolveUrl = `http://api.soundcloud.com/resolve.json?url=${trackUrl}/tracks&client_id=${client_id}`
fetch(resolveUrl, {
method: 'get'
}).then((response) => {
return response.json()
}).then((result) => {
/* now you have the track */
console.log(result)
})