Soundcloud API Returning 403 on Some Tracks

Question

I'm developing a site using the soundcloud API but it is giving me some troubles.

For some odd reason some tracks are returning a 403 forbidden error, whilst others are not. Does anybody know the cause of this issue?

For example, this works perfectly: https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/334511096.json?client_id=REDACTED_CLIENT_ID

Whilst this gives the 403 forbidden error: https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/328406416.json?client_id=REDACTED_CLIENT_ID

Any suggestions would be great, thanks!

Answer 1

My guess is the track owner has made the track private so it's only shared through a secret link that the track owner can give out.

Answer 2

This question was answered here: SoundCloud API URLs timing out and then returning error 403 on about 50% of tracks

TL;RD SoundCloud API return 403 if they think that the track should not be available via API.