alexa-soundcloud

This public endpoint allows playing music from SoundCloud via a generated RSS feed. This endpoint acts as an convenience wrapper around SoundCloud's public API linked below. It works by calling the same URL path after https://alexa-soundcloud.now.sh appended to https://api.soundcloud.com.

This is with the exception of https://alexa-soundcloud.now.sh/stream/<track_id> which resolves a track ID to a temporary playable URL using the SoundCloud internal API (https://api-v2.soundcloud.com).

Installation

Enable any Alexa skill capable of playing music from RSS. I found https://mypodapp.com which has a minimal but ad-free option for users.

SoundCloud API

The documentation of SoundCloud's public API (not the https://api-v2.soundcloud.com used on the live site) can be found here: https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/guide

To get your SoundCloud client_id log in and go to https://soundcloud.com/stream and check the network tab of your developer tools for any requests containing the client_id as HTTP GET query parameter.

alexa-soundcloud API

Additional options can be passed as HTTP Basic authentication username in form of a query string, e.g.:

simple=foo&shorthand&nested.key=bar

Name	Usage	Description
shuffle	shuffle	Set to any value to randomly shuffle the output after retrieving the desired list
relative	relative.created.to=P10Y	Today's date subtracted of the duration parsed by ISO 8601 will be added to the key path after relative

Examples

• Create new playlist on https://mypodapp.com
• Add link to playlist
  • Name: Favourites
  • Link: https://alexa-soundcloud.now.sh/resolve?url=https://soundcloud.com/<name>/likes
  • Advanced
    • Username: shuffle
    • Password: <client_id>
    • Disable resume: [X]
    • Save
  • Say Alexa, play Favourites on MyPod
  • Enjoy the finest music in the world, i.e. your favourites
• Add link to playlist
  • Name: Feed
  • Link: https://alexa-soundcloud.now.sh/tracks?q=dub+techno&duration.from=1800000
  • Advanced
    • Username: shuffle&relative.created_at.from=P1W
    • Password: <client_id>
    • Disable resume: [X]
    • Save
  • Say Alexa, play Feed on MyPod
  • Enjoy the freshest* music in the world, i.e. last week's new sets of sweet dub techno (*taste may differ)