Collecting Statistics from Soundcloud

[John Heery]

Hello
I was wondering is there a simple way of pulling statistics from
soundcloud based on a username?

Ideally I'd like to get data such as: no of tracks, no of loved
tracks, no of plays etc.
Any ideas/suggestions? thanks

[SoundCloud API Support]

Hi John,

I suggest you have a look at the API wiki, particularly this[1] page,
which lists all the data you can currently get about Users, Tracks,
Playlists etc.

What you mention in your question is directly available by just
issuing a GET to /users/{user-id} or /tracks/{track-id}

Greets,
Lorenzo // API Team

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[Johan Uhle]

I think this is the page Lorenzo meant:
https://github.com/soundcloud/api/wiki/03-Representations

Cheers,
Johan

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[John Heery]

Thanks for these tips but I'm afraid I'm still a bit lost.

Am I correct in saying that I need to create a php page which issues a GET to http://api.soundcloud.com/me?consumer_key=my_consumer_key ?
If I currently try this with my consumer key I get an xml doc returned saying : <error>401 - Unauthorized</error>

If there's a basic walkthough tutorial to get started on this I'd really appreciate it
thanks
J

[SoundCloud API Support]

Hi John,

on SoundCloud there are public and private resources. To access
private ones, you will need to be authenticated. This can be done with
OAuth2. Several libraries exist to make authentication easier (e.g.
PHP [1] and jQuery [2]). Read more about authentication here [3].

/me is obviously a private resource that needs authentication.

But I assume, that it might be sufficient for you to only access
public resources, thus you will not need authentication then. To
access a specific user, you can use the public resource GET
/users/{user-id} [4]. To get the user-id, you can use the resolver
[5].

Hope this helps you. You should also browse and read a bit in the
documentation [6], to get a better understanding of the API.

Best,
Johan // SoundCloud API Developer

[1] https://github.com/mptre/php-soundcloud/
[2] https://github.com/soundcloud/SoundCloud-API-jQuery-plugin/
[3] https://github.com/soundcloud/api/wiki/02-Authentication
[4] https://github.com/soundcloud/api/wiki/10.1-Resources%3A-users
[5] https://github.com/soundcloud/api/wiki/12-Resolver
[6] https://github.com/soundcloud/api/wiki/