# SoundCloud Track API

SoundCloud

Returns a public SoundCloud track from its link, share link, URN or ID, with exact play, like, repost, comment and download counts. It also has the title, description, hashtags, artwork, length, release and upload dates, uploader, genre, tags, license, and the album, ISRC, UPC, label, publisher and copyright that labels fill in. It says whether the track plays in full or as a preview in the United States.

GET `/v1/soundcloud/track`

## Example

cURL:

```shell
curl -G 'https://socialtap.dev/v1/soundcloud/track' \
  --data-urlencode 'url=https://soundcloud.com/forss/flickermood' \
  -H "x-api-key: $SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"
```

TypeScript SDK:

```typescript
import { SocialTap } from "socialtap";

const client = new SocialTap(); // apiKey defaults to process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY

const res = await client.soundcloud.track.get({ url: "https://soundcloud.com/forss/flickermood" });
console.log(res.data);
console.log(res.credits.charged, res.meta.request_id);
```

Node.js (fetch):

```javascript
const params = new URLSearchParams({
  url: "https://soundcloud.com/forss/flickermood",
});
const res = await fetch(`https://socialtap.dev/v1/soundcloud/track?${params}`, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.SOCIALTAP_API_KEY ?? "" },
});
const body = await res.json();
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${body.error.code}: ${body.error.message}`);
const { data, meta } = body;
console.log(data, meta.credits_charged);
```

Python (requests):

```python
import os

import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://socialtap.dev/v1/soundcloud/track",
    params={"url": "https://soundcloud.com/forss/flickermood"},
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"]},
)
body = res.json()
if not res.ok:
    raise RuntimeError(f"{body['error']['code']}: {body['error']['message']}")
data, meta = body["data"], body["meta"]
print(data, meta["credits_charged"])
```

Go (net/http):

```go
package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"net/http"
	"net/url"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	q := url.Values{}
	q.Set("url", "https://soundcloud.com/forss/flickermood")
	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://socialtap.dev/v1/soundcloud/track?"+q.Encode(), nil)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", os.Getenv("SOCIALTAP_API_KEY"))
	res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()
	var body struct {
		Data  json.RawMessage `json:"data"`
		Meta  map[string]any  `json:"meta"`
		Error *struct {
			Code    string `json:"code"`
			Message string `json:"message"`
		} `json:"error"`
	}
	if err := json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&body); err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	if body.Error != nil {
		log.Fatalf("%s: %s", body.Error.Code, body.Error.Message)
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body.Data), body.Meta["credits_charged"])
}
```

200 OK:

```json
{
  "data": {
    "approximate_fields": [],
    "author": {
      "avatar_url": "https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-000012778523-59quu3-t500x500.jpg",
      "display_name": "Forss",
      "id": "183",
      "is_verified": true,
      "url": "https://soundcloud.com/forss",
      "username": "forss"
    },
    "coauthors": [],
    "duration_ms": 213890,
    "hashtags": [],
    "id": "293",
    "is_nsfw": null,
    "is_pinned": null,
    "is_sponsored": null,
    "language": null,
    "media": [
      {
        "alt_text": null,
        "duration_ms": 213886,
        "expires_at": null,
        "height": null,
        "thumbnail_url": "https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000067273316-smsiqx-t500x500.jpg",
        "type": "audio",
        "url": null,
        "width": null
      }
    ],
    "mentions": [],
    "metrics": {
      "comment_count": 400,
      "like_count": 2621,
      "quote_count": null,
      "repost_count": 413,
      "save_count": null,
      "share_count": null,
      "view_count": 972697
    },
    "platform": "soundcloud",
    "platform_specific": {
      "soundcloud": {
        "album_title": null,
        "artist_name": "Forss",
        "author_follower_count": 132108,
        "c_line": null,
        "caption": null,
        "download_count": 21595,
        "embeddable_by": "all",
        "genre": "Electronic",
        "is_commentable": true,
        "is_downloadable": true,
        "is_explicit": null,
        "is_music": true,
        "is_streamable": true,
        "isrc": "DEP960300042",
        "label_name": "sonarkollektiv",
        "last_modified_at": "2022-07-11T10:55:58Z",
        "license": "all-rights-reserved",
        "monetization_model": "AD_SUPPORTED",
        "p_line": null,
        "permalink": "flickermood",
        "policy": "MONETIZE",
        "publisher": "Universal Music Publishing",
        "purchase_title": null,
        "purchase_url": "http://sonarkollektiv.com/tracks/DE-P96-03-00042",
        "release_title": null,
        "released_at": "2003-06-02T00:00:00Z",
        "tags": [
          "downtempo"
        ],
        "transcodings": [
          {
            "duration_ms": 213886,
            "is_snipped": false,
            "mime_type": "audio/mp4; codecs=\"mp4a.40.2\"",
            "preset": "aac_160k",
            "protocol": "hls",
            "quality": "sq"
          },
          {
            "duration_ms": 213886,
            "is_snipped": false,
            "mime_type": "audio/mp4; codecs=\"mp4a.40.2\"",
            "preset": "aac_96k",
            "protocol": "hls",
            "quality": "lq"
          },
          {
            "duration_ms": 213886,
            "is_snipped": false,
            "mime_type": "audio/mpegurl",
            "preset": "abr_sq",
            "protocol": "hls",
            "quality": "sq"
          }
        ],
        "upc": null,
        "uploaded_at": "2007-09-22T14:45:46Z",
        "visual_url": null,
        "waveform_url": "https://wave.sndcdn.com/cWHNerOLlkUq_m.json",
        "writer_composer": "Eric Wahlforss"
      }
    },
    "platform_type": "track",
    "published_at": "2007-09-22T14:45:46Z",
    "text": "From the Soulhack album, recently featured in this ad https://www.dswshoes.com/tv_commercial.jsp?m=october2007",
    "thumbnail_url": "https://i1.sndcdn.com/artworks-000067273316-smsiqx-t500x500.jpg",
    "title": "Flickermood",
    "type": "audio",
    "unknown_fields": [],
    "url": "https://soundcloud.com/forss/flickermood"
  },
  "meta": {
    "request_id": "req_3f9c2a7d1e8b4c6a9f0e2d4b6a8c0e1f",
    "platform": "soundcloud",
    "source": "api",
    "is_cached": false,
    "credits_charged": 1,
    "latency_ms": 287,
    "fetched_at": "2026-10-25T12:00:00Z",
    "input": {
      "kind": "post",
      "id": "293",
      "url": "https://soundcloud.com/forss/flickermood"
    },
    "credits_remaining": 9999,
    "client_request_id": null,
    "warnings": []
  }
}
```

> [!NOTE]
>
> **Good to know**
>
> - type is audio, SoundCloud's plays are metrics.view_count and its reposts metrics.repost_count.
> - media\[\].url is null, because SoundCloud's playback links need a request of their own per track and expire within minutes. platform_specific.soundcloud.transcodings lists the encodings it serves.
> - A secret link's token is never used: the link returns the track only when it is public anyway, and private_or_unavailable otherwise.
> - Many major-label tracks play only as a preview to logged-out listeners: platform_specific.soundcloud.policy is SNIP, duration_ms is the whole track's length and media\[\].duration_ms the preview's. Under policy BLOCK nothing plays and media\[\].duration_ms is null.
> - platform_specific.soundcloud.policy, monetization_model and transcodings and media\[\].duration_ms are what SoundCloud serves a logged-out listener in the United States, wherever you call from, and can differ in other countries. duration_ms and every other field are the same everywhere.

## Authorizations

`x-api-key`stringheaderrequired

Your API key. [Authentication](https://socialtap.dev/docs/authentication/index.md)

## Query parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Example |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `url` required | `string`<br>max 2,048 chars | The track: its link (soundcloud.com/forss/flickermood, also on m.soundcloud.com, with any share parameters), a share link (on.soundcloud.com/\<code>), its address on the API (api.soundcloud.com/tracks/293), the embedded player's link to it, its URN (soundcloud:tracks:293) or its ID (293). | `https://soundcloud.com/forss/flickermood` |

`url` takes SoundCloud post links; another kind of link, or another platform's, fails free with [`invalid_input`](https://socialtap.dev/docs/errors/index.md#invalid_input). Unknown parameters are rejected with a suggestion, never ignored ([Requests](https://socialtap.dev/docs/requests/index.md)).

**Parameters every endpoint accepts**

| Name | Type | Description | Example |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `max_age` optional | `integer`<br>min 0 | Accept a cached response up to this many seconds old. Cache hits cost 0 credits. Omit to always fetch fresh. The Cache-Control: max-age=N request header is equivalent; max_age wins when both are sent. | — |
| `fields` optional | `string` | Return only these fields of each item: comma-separated paths in the schema's notation (id,text,metrics.view_count,segments\[\].text; a parent path keeps the whole object). Unknown paths are rejected. Applied after the cache, so it changes neither the price nor cache hits; page and meta are always returned whole. | — |

## Response

### 200

`{data, meta}`. `data` is a [post](https://socialtap.dev/resources/post/index.md) object; `meta` describes the request ([meta](https://socialtap.dev/docs/reference/index.md#meta)). Fields only SoundCloud has are under `platform_specific.soundcloud`.

| Field | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `data.platform` | `string` | Platform ID (tiktok, youtube, …). |
| `data.id` | `string` | Platform-native post ID (string; Instagram shortcode, Reddit with its t3_ prefix). |
| `data.url` | `string` (uri) | Canonical post URL. |
| `data.type` | `string` | Normalized content shape. New values may be added; treat unknown values as other.<br>One of `video`, `image`, `carousel`, `text`, `link`, `audio` |
| `data.platform_type` | `string` or `null` | The platform's own product label, lowercase (reel, short, story, live, tweet, …). |
| `data.title` | `string` or `null` | Headline (YouTube title, Reddit title); null on caption-only platforms. |
| `data.text` | `string` or `null` | Caption, description or body as plain text. |
| `data.language` | `string` or `null` | BCP-47 language of text, when the platform states it. |
| `data.published_at` | `string` (date-time) or `null` | When the post went public, RFC 3339 UTC. |
| `data.author` | `object` | The posting account. An account the platform no longer names (a deleted account) has a null id and username and the platform's label as display_name (Reddit: \[deleted\]). A post credited to what is no account of the platform's (an Apple Music radio episode's show) has a null id and username, and every other field null too when the platform doesn't name it. |
| `data.author.id` | `string` or `null` | Platform-native account ID; null when only the handle is known. |
| `data.author.username` | `string` or `null` | Handle without the @; null when the account has none. |
| `data.author.display_name` | `string` or `null` | Display name shown on the profile. |
| `data.author.url` | `string` (uri) or `null` | Canonical profile URL. |
| `data.author.avatar_url` | `string` (uri) or `null` | Profile picture URL. Platform CDN URLs can expire within hours. |
| `data.author.is_verified` | `boolean` or `null` | Platform verification badge; null where the platform has no badge. |
| `data.coauthors` | `object[]` | Other accounts credited as co-authors of the post (Instagram and Facebook collabs, YouTube collaborations), in the platform's order, author excluded; \[\] if none. |
| `data.coauthors[].id` | `string` or `null` | Platform-native account ID; null when only the handle is known. |
| `data.coauthors[].username` | `string` or `null` | Handle without the @; null when the account has none. |
| `data.coauthors[].display_name` | `string` or `null` | Display name shown on the profile. |
| `data.coauthors[].url` | `string` (uri) or `null` | Canonical profile URL. |
| `data.coauthors[].avatar_url` | `string` (uri) or `null` | Profile picture URL. Platform CDN URLs can expire within hours. |
| `data.coauthors[].is_verified` | `boolean` or `null` | Platform verification badge; null where the platform has no badge. |
| `data.duration_ms` | `integer` or `null` | Length of the primary video or audio in milliseconds; null for other posts. |
| `data.thumbnail_url` | `string` (uri) or `null` | Cover or poster image URL. |
| `data.media` | `object[]` | Attachments in display order (carousel items); \[\] for text posts. |
| `data.media[].type` | `string` | Kind of file. New values may be added; treat unknown values as other.<br>One of `image`, `video`, `audio`, `gif` |
| `data.media[].url` | `string` (uri) or `null` | Direct file URL; null when the platform withholds it, or when the link would only work from SocialTap's network or with a login. Often signed and expiring: see expires_at. |
| `data.media[].expires_at` | `string` (date-time) or `null` | When url stops working, RFC 3339 UTC, read from the platform's signed URL; null when unknown or when it does not expire. |
| `data.media[].thumbnail_url` | `string` (uri) or `null` | Poster or preview image URL. |
| `data.media[].width` | `integer` or `null` | Width in pixels. |
| `data.media[].height` | `integer` or `null` | Height in pixels. |
| `data.media[].duration_ms` | `integer` or `null` | Duration in milliseconds (video and audio only). |
| `data.media[].alt_text` | `string` or `null` | Accessibility text provided by the author or platform. |
| `data.hashtags` | `string[]` | Hashtags without #, case kept; \[\] if none. |
| `data.mentions` | `string[]` | Mentioned or tagged usernames without @; \[\] if none. |
| `data.is_pinned` | `boolean` or `null` | Pinned to the author's profile. |
| `data.is_sponsored` | `boolean` or `null` | Labeled as a paid partnership or branded content. |
| `data.is_nsfw` | `boolean` or `null` | Marked adult or sensitive by the platform. |
| `data.metrics` | `object` | Counts at fetch time; null = hidden or not exposed, 0 = zero. |
| `data.metrics.view_count` | `integer` or `null` | SoundCloud: plays. Views or plays. |
| `data.metrics.like_count` | `integer` or `null` | Likes, hearts, total reactions or upvotes; never negative. Null when hidden by the owner. |
| `data.metrics.comment_count` | `integer` or `null` | Comments and replies. |
| `data.metrics.share_count` | `integer` or `null` | Shares or sends (not reposts). |
| `data.metrics.repost_count` | `integer` or `null` | Reposts, retweets or reshares. |
| `data.metrics.quote_count` | `integer` or `null` | Quote posts. |
| `data.metrics.save_count` | `integer` or `null` | Saves, bookmarks or favorites. |
| `data.platform_specific` | `object` | Fields only this platform has, under its ID (platform_specific.\<platform>); each null when unknown. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud` | `object` or `null` | A SoundCloud track's own fields. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.genre` | `string` or `null` | The genre the uploader chose, as written; null when none. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.tags` | `string[]` | The uploader's tags, without the quotes SoundCloud keeps around a tag of several words; \[\] when none. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.caption` | `string` or `null` | The short line the uploader wrote beside the track; null when none. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.permalink` | `string` or `null` | The track's name in its link (soundcloud.com/\<artist>/\<permalink>). |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.license` | `string` or `null` | The license the track is published under (all-rights-reserved, cc-by, …). |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.label_name` | `string` or `null` | The record label the uploader credits; null when none. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.artist_name` | `string` or `null` | The credited artist in the release metadata, who may not be the account that uploaded it; null when none. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.album_title` | `string` or `null` | The album in the release metadata; null when none. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.release_title` | `string` or `null` | The release in the release metadata; null when none. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.released_at` | `string` (date-time) or `null` | The release date the uploader states, RFC 3339 UTC; it can be long before the track came to SoundCloud. Null when none. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.uploaded_at` | `string` (date-time) or `null` | When the track was uploaded, RFC 3339 UTC; before published_at when its release was scheduled. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.last_modified_at` | `string` (date-time) or `null` | When the uploader last changed the track, RFC 3339 UTC. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.isrc` | `string` or `null` | International Standard Recording Code; null when none. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.upc` | `string` or `null` | The release's UPC or EAN barcode; null when none. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.publisher` | `string` or `null` | The music publisher in the release metadata; null when none. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.writer_composer` | `string` or `null` | The writer or composer in the release metadata; null when none. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.p_line` | `string` or `null` | The sound recording copyright line (℗); null when none. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.c_line` | `string` or `null` | The composition copyright line (©); null when none. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.is_explicit` | `boolean` or `null` | The release metadata marks the track explicit; null when it does not say. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.is_music` | `boolean` or `null` | The release metadata says the track holds music (false: spoken word or a podcast); null when it does not say. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.download_count` | `integer` or `null` | Downloads. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.is_downloadable` | `boolean` or `null` | The uploader allows downloads of the track. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.is_streamable` | `boolean` or `null` | SoundCloud lets the track be played. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.is_commentable` | `boolean` or `null` | The uploader allows comments on the track. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.policy` | `string` or `null` | What SoundCloud lets a logged-out listener in the United States do: ALLOW and MONETIZE play the whole track, SNIP a preview of it (see transcodings), BLOCK nothing. SoundCloud answers each country its own way: this is the US answer. New values may be added. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.monetization_model` | `string` or `null` | How the track earns in the United States (AD_SUPPORTED, SUB_HIGH_TIER, BLACKBOX, NOT_APPLICABLE); SoundCloud answers each country its own way. New values may be added. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.embeddable_by` | `string` or `null` | Who may embed the player (all, me, none). |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.purchase_url` | `string` (uri) or `null` | The buy link the uploader set; null when none. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.purchase_title` | `string` or `null` | The label of the buy link; null when SoundCloud's default is used. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.waveform_url` | `string` (uri) or `null` | The JSON file of the track's waveform, which SoundCloud's player draws. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.visual_url` | `string` (uri) or `null` | The banner image the uploader set for the track's page; null when none. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.transcodings` | `object[]` | The encodings SoundCloud serves of the track to a logged-out listener in the United States, in its order; each country gets its own list. \[\] when none, as under policy BLOCK. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.transcodings[].preset` | `string` or `null` | SoundCloud's name of the encoding (aac_160k, mp3_1_0, abr_sq, …). |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.transcodings[].protocol` | `string` or `null` | How it is delivered: hls, progressive (one file), or cbc-encrypted-hls and ctr-encrypted-hls. New values may be added. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.transcodings[].mime_type` | `string` or `null` | The audio's media type. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.transcodings[].quality` | `string` or `null` | SoundCloud's quality label: lq (lower), sq (standard) or hq (high). New values may be added. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.transcodings[].is_snipped` | `boolean` or `null` | Only a preview of the track, not all of it. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.transcodings[].duration_ms` | `integer` or `null` | Length of this encoding in milliseconds: the preview's on a snipped one. |
| `data.platform_specific.soundcloud.author_follower_count` | `integer` or `null` | The uploader's exact follower count. |
| `data.approximate_fields` | `string[]` | JSON paths of values rounded by the platform or parsed from display text. A list path (external_links) means the list may be incomplete. \[\] when all exact. |
| `data.unknown_fields` | `string[]` | JSON paths of lists whose \[\] means unknown rather than none (a source that cannot see them); null already means unknown for every other field. \[\] when every list is known. |

not_found and private_or_unavailable are item-level: the request was fine, the item can't be returned.

### 400

400 Bad Request: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `invalid_input` | 400 | No | A parameter is missing or malformed, or the link is not one this endpoint takes. | Fix the parameter named in param as the message says. For a link of the wrong kind, call an endpoint listed in details.endpoints, when there is one. |

### 401

401 Unauthorized: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `unauthorized` | 401 | No | The x-api-key header is missing, or its key is unknown or revoked. On the dashboard's routes: the session cookie is missing or expired. | Send a valid API key in the x-api-key header. No key yet? A person gets one at details.signup_url; an AI agent follows details.agent_auth_url. |

### 402

402 Payment Required: 2 error codes. Free: errors cost nothing.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `insufficient_credits` | 402 | No | The account does not have enough credits for this request. | Have a person buy credits at details.purchase_url (or make them a checkout link with details.checkout), then repeat the request. Do not retry automatically. |
| `spend_limit_reached` | 402 | No | The API key reached its spend limit for this period. The account may still have credits. | Wait until details.resets_at, or raise the key's spend limit (PATCH /v1/api_keys/{id}). Do not retry automatically. |

### 403

403 Forbidden: 2 error codes. Free: errors cost nothing.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `forbidden` | 403 | No | The API key is valid but may not make this request, and details.reason says why: the account is suspended, the key lacks the route's scope, waits for its owner to confirm it by email, has expired, or was used from an IP outside its allowlist, or a rotated key's previous secret was used for a call that needs the admin scope. A running job stops with it too when its account is suspended or the key that created it is revoked or expires. It is about the key, never the item: a private item is private_or_unavailable, also 403, so branch on the code. | Act on details.reason. suspended: contact [support](mailto:support@socialtap.dev). scope: use a key with details.required_scope. previous_secret: use the new secret. key_pending: have the owner open the emailed link. key_expired or key_revoked: create a new key. ip_not_allowed: call from an allowed IP. |
| `private_or_unavailable` | 403 | No | The item exists but is not public: it is private, age- or region-restricted, or needs a login to view. It shares 403 with forbidden (which is about the key), so branch on the code. | Only public items can be fetched. Do not retry. |

### 404

404 Not Found: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `not_found` | 404 | No | The item does not exist or was deleted. On GET /v1/requests/{id}/response: the response was not kept (details.reason says why). | Check the link or ID. Do not retry. |

### 429

429 Too Many Requests: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `rate_limited` | 429 | Yes, later | The account passed its runaway-protection ceiling: a high per-account limit that stops a broken client loop (plans have no rate limit). Requests without an API key (signup, the MCP server's tool listing and find_endpoint) are limited per IP address instead. It also stops an account whose failed requests in the last hour cost far more than its successful ones paid for: failures are free within a limit (the message says so), and successes raise it. | Wait the seconds in the retry-after header, then retry. If your steady traffic needs more, ask [support](mailto:support@socialtap.dev) to raise the ceiling; without an API key, send one. |

### 500

500 Internal Error: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `internal` | 500 | Yes, later | An unexpected error on SocialTap's side. | Retry with backoff. If it keeps happening, contact [support](mailto:support@socialtap.dev) with the request_id. |

### 502

502 Bad Gateway: 1 error code. Free: errors cost nothing.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `upstream_error` | 502 | Yes, later | The platform failed, or answered with something we could not read. | Retry with backoff. Failed requests are free. |

### 503

503 Unavailable: 2 error codes. Free: errors cost nothing.

| Code | HTTP | Retry | Meaning | What to do |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `upstream_blocked` | 503 | Yes, later | The platform refused every attempt, our own retries included. | Retry later with backoff. Failed requests are free. |
| `overloaded` | 503 | Yes, later | SocialTap was at capacity, or paused by its operators, and did not start the request. Nothing was fetched or charged. | Retry after the seconds in the retry-after header. Failed requests are free. |

## Pricing

From **1 credit** per request. Charged only for successful requests. Errors are free. The price depends on the source that produced the result, reported as `meta.source`; sources are tried cheapest first: Platform API → Public page.

| Source | Price per successful request | Per 1,000 requests |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Platform API `api` | 1 credit | $0.75–$1.97 |
| Public page `page` | 1 credit | $0.75–$1.97 |

**Balance, sources and what you were charged**

Your balance must be at least **1 credit** to start a request; with less, it is refused with [`insufficient_credits`](https://socialtap.dev/docs/errors/index.md#insufficient_credits) (HTTP 402) and costs nothing. Only that minimum is set aside when the request starts.

| meta.source | Source | What it means |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `api` | Platform API | The platform's public, logged-out API. |
| `page` | Public page | Data embedded in the platform's public web page. |

`meta.credits_charged` and the `x-credits-charged` header show what you paid. [How credits work](https://socialtap.dev/docs/credits/index.md) · [Packs](https://socialtap.dev/pricing/index.md)

Endpoint ID `soundcloud.track` · operationId `soundcloud.track.get` · [Product overview](https://socialtap.dev/apis/soundcloud/track/index.md)

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