Backstage Blog

• API
• Announcements

A while ago we improved the artist shown underneath a track. This change is now avalailable in our API too.

• Update
• API
• Announcements

We’re working on improving our API offering. In order to do that, we need to revoke access for some developers with inactive apps. We’ve reached out directly to those who will be affected via email and we’re working to mitigate impact where we can.

• API
• Announcements

As part of our continuous effort toward making improvements to our API with the hope that we can relaunch API access to all developers, we’re making some critical security improvements. Please note that these are important and time sensitive and may cause disruptions in your app if you don’t make the necessary security upgrades.

• API
• Announcements

You can now retrieve metadata for our full SoundCloud catalog through our API by providing the new access filter in your request.

• API
• Announcements

As a part of our efforts to improve API use, we’re introducing a new Track object that’s more up to date with our current data model. The following change is intended to standardize and simplify the response data. A new object will be used for all endpoints returning track-related information.

• API
• Announcements

As part of our efforts to improve our APIs, we’re introducing updates on how we paginate over tracks. This only affects developers and apps that aren’t strictly relying on the next_href field, but rather custom manipulating the offset to request a page.

• Engineering
• Finagle
• Twirp
• Scala
• Open Source
• Announcements

This article announces the release of Twinagle, an open source implementation of the Twirp protocol for Scala/Finagle.

• Engineering
• Go
• Monitoring
• Open Source
• Typescript
• React
• Announcements

A new approach to exception monitoring, designed for high scalability...

• Announcements
• Security

We’re excited to announce the launch of our public bug bounty program with Bugcrowd — the #1 crowdsourced security platform. This public program is open to Bugcrowd’s full crowd of top, trusted whitehat hackers, and we will award up to $1,500 per vulnerability identified on our website, API, and mobile apps.

• Announcements

Today we are launching a new API application process.

Starting today, developers will need to fill out an application form to request access to our API.

Here is why.

As SoundCloud has grown, we’ve seen our API used in countless innovative ways that support and enhance the SoundCloud experience for our creators and listeners around the globe. At the same time, we’ve also seen a number of apps or services that act on behalf of our users without their explicit permission or attempt to use creator…