cannot download as of 18/03 > yesterday was working fine :( about scdl HOT 5 CLOSED

having the same error.
did soundcloud update something new?

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
File "", line 88, in run_code
File "C:\Users\Something\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts\scdl.exe_main.py", line 7, in
sys.exit(main())
^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\Something\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\scdl\scdl.py", line 158, in main
if not client.is_client_id_valid():
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\Something\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\soundcloud\soundcloud.py", line 125, in is_client_id_valid
next(
StopIteration

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Linux code blowing the same errors, on the same line numbers with the exception of the first line, is Line 8, not Line 7.

Seems Soundcloud made a change.

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i'm also getting the same error ); really sad this broke because it was a really useful tool and it doesn't seem to have any active maintainers. i'd try and fix it myself but i would probably make it worse lol.

this works well in the meantime though:

yt-dlp --embed-metadata --embed-thumbnail https://soundcloud.com/artist/song

The only caveat is that if it downloads the original file it won't autoconvert it to flac, so it will just fail to add the thumbnail if the original file is a wav or aiff file. definitely not perfect but it's better than nothing!

Upon closer inspection i think this is a problem with the soundcloud library for python and not scdl itself? idk

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Should be fixed in v2.7.4

soundcloud seems to have removed the recent-tracks endpoint (RIP tag watching) which I was using to validate the client_id. I changed the validation method to just fetch some track instead.

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Amazing - thanks so much for fixing it so quickly!

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