Question

Is it possible to make an API request that returns only favorited tracks by a specific uploader? I tried:

https://api.soundcloud.com/me/favorites.json?contact_id=…

and

https://api.soundcloud.com/me/favorites.json?user_id=…

I also tried just searching favorites https://api.soundcloud.com/me/favorites.json?q=…

but with all of my trials, I always got the exact same response as without parameters (in the API console)

I am most interested in the first problem: making an API request to get favorited tracks by a specific uploader, but being able to filter favorites by genre/tag, bpm, etc would certainly be useful and interesting as well! Am I overlooking anything or is this not possible with SoundCloud’s API? I don’t want to have to get ALL the users’ tracks or ALL of the favorites in order just to get all the favorites by that user.

Answer 1

There is no way currently to filter by the owner of the favorited track. The best thing to do would be to grab a list of favorites using the /me/favorites endpoint, then filter in your application logic. Unfortunately there are no filters that work with that particular endpoint.