Epidemic Sound

[UltraBlackLinux]

Checklist

• I'm reporting a new site support request
• I've verified that I'm running youtube-dl version 2021.12.17
• I've checked that all provided URLs are alive and playable in a browser
• I've checked that none of provided URLs violate any copyrights
• I've searched the bugtracker for similar site support requests including closed ones

Example URLs

Search anything on https://www.epidemicsound.com/

Here is the audio link: https://dkihjuum4jcjr.cloudfront.net/ES_ITUNES/Think%20It's%20over%20Now%20(Instrumental%20Version)/ES_Think%20It's%20over%20Now%20(Instrumental%20Version).mp3

Description

Epidemicsound allows the user to "preview" the tracks on the website. Whenever pressing the play button while inspecting the site traffic monitor, one can, see that the client receives a link that corresponds to the track's audio.

This should be reasonably easy to retrieve.

In case this is added, please consider that links from the search tool are an easy way to get a playlist of tracks in the user's taste, so being able to download from a search would be appreciated.

[rautamiekka]

They also have multiple YouTube channels.

[UltraBlackLinux]

it's hard to search the youtube channels for particular genres

[rautamiekka]

Very true, at least if they didn't have genre-specific channels, a long list of them, at that: https://www.youtube.com/@epidemicsound/channels

And each one has playlists for even more specificity, like in the case of jazz that I randomly picked: https://www.youtube.com/@EpidemicJazz/playlists

[dirkf]

Is there an example URL for an example track, or does all the action happen in the same page? In the latter case, how would yt-dl know which track to target?

[UltraBlackLinux]

it all happens on teh same page:

1. You click the play button on a song
2. You get a response with the link and some metadata

I also found out that they have some kind of api at https://www.epidemicsound.com/json/search/tracks/ but there is no documentation on this, that's why I'm still sticking to yt-dl

[dirkf]

This is not a real web site (as it doesn't have URLs for different resources within the site) and so isn't suitable for use with yt-dl. Unless anyone can persuade me otherwise this will be closed wontfix.

[realRobotix]

This is not a real web site (as it doesn't have URLs for different resources within the site) and so isn't suitable for use with yt-dl. Unless anyone can persuade me otherwise this will be closed wontfix.

They do actually have URLs for all resources, but this might also be a recent addition. Just hover over a song/sound effect and on the right there is a link icon which copies the URL to the clipboard. Example: https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/yFfQVRpSPz/