soundcloud-follow-downloader

import requests
import json
import os
from subprocess import call
#Requires a working external youtube-dl installation, as the python module is missing some stuff.
__YOUTUBE_DL_PATH__ = ""
# To find USER ID, go to your profiles page on soundcloud and view the pages source. Search for "soundcloud://users:"
# The number that follows is your user ID, paste that here (ex. 21397662)
__USER_ID__ = ""

artists = []

# This simply retrieves every artist the account with the given ID follows, limited to 1000
# and saves it to file artists.txt


def getFollows():
    #These probably break SoundClouds TOS as they were pulled from a browser request.
    #Ideally, I would have an official application registerred and OAuth set up
    p = {"limit": 1000, "offset": 0,
         "client_id": "2t9loNQH90kzJcsFCODdigxfp325aq4z"}
    c = {"sc_anonymous_id": "515501-311086-12010-173992"}

    res = requests.get(
        "https://api-v2.soundcloud.com/users/{}/followings".format(__USER_ID__), params=p, cookies=c)
    resjson = res.json()
    with open("artists.txt", "w+") as file:
        for i in resjson["collection"]:
            name = i["permalink"]
            print(name)
            file.write("{}\n".format(name))
            artists.append(name)

# This loops through every artist in the artists array and downloads the tracks.


def downloadTracks():

    for artist in artists:
            # Creates a folder with the artist's name if it doesn't exist already
        if not os.path.exists(artist):
            os.makedirs(artist)

        os.chdir(artist)  # "cd ..."

        # with ydl:
        #     result = ydl.extract_info("https://soundcloud.com/{}".format(artist), download=True)
        call([__YOUTUBE_DL_PATH__, "https://soundcloud.com/{}".format(artist)])

        os.chdir("..")

def loadArtistsFromFile():
    #TODO: support loading artists from file. It's like 3 LOC
    pass


if __name__ == "__main__":
    getFollows()
    downloadTracks()