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user3502626
user3502626

Reputation: 838

Soundcloud api search no result

How does the Soundcloud search api work? I searched some songs and I get some results but, I just searched the word DJ SNAKE and I get no result. Why is that?

The link I used:

https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks?client_id={myID}&q=DJ%20SNAKE

Then I searched the word dj snake from the SoundCloud search bar, I get a lot of result. Why?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 374

Answers (1)

johnh10
johnh10

Reputation: 4185

(Posted as answer only for formatting)

This is interesting and looks like a bug to me.

First try it with linked_partitioning:

http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks.json?client_id={myID}&q=dj+snake&linked_partitioning=1

SoundCloud returns 

{"collection":[],"next_href":"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks.json?linked_partitioning=1&client_id={myID}&offset=10&q=dj%20snake&limit=10"}

If you follow the next_href you find a DJ Snake track result, with another next_href to the next one.

For some reason, first page is empty, and each linked partition has only 1 result. That's not right....

When I try another search, I get a full page of results, as expected.

http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks.json?client_id={myID}&q=black+crowes&linked_partitioning=1

Upvotes: 1

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