Soundcloud Go Track Fetching

[CoelacanthsKill]

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Add support for logging into soundcloud, and having the ability to fetch full length Soundcloud Go tracks.

[yan12125]

Is there an example URL?

[CoelacanthsKill]

https://soundcloud.com/herbalpert/jump-street

You must have SoundcloudGo in order to listen to the entire song.

[yan12125]

This track is not available in Taiwan

Which countries does it require?

[CoelacanthsKill]

It works in the USA, not sure about other countries.

[VFUC]

SoundCloud now requires logging in via OAuth2, so that's a bit tricky to implement without registering an app and implementing a redirect flow. You can however just log in with a browser, read the OAuth-Token from the cookies and pass it to youtube-dl.
SoundCloud will then provide the full-length tracks instead of only the preview when fetching, the rest works seamlessly 🙂
The cookie is called oauth_token and an example call would be
youtube-dl --add-header 'Authorization':'OAuth 2-123456-123456789-aaa...' https://soundcloud.com/artist/track

Cheers!

[josephecombs]

@VFUC 's solution confirmed as working on 5/4/19. I did need to update to get it to work.

[hussong]

Can confirm as well that @VFUC's above solution is working as of 2019-05-14 with youtube-dl version 2019.05.11.

[bersbersbers]

Had to use

youtube-dl --add-header "Authorization:OAuth 2-..." https://soundcloud.com/artist/track

(note quotation marks) on Windows 10. Working fine otherwise on 2020.06.16.1.