SoundCloud Scraper — Artists, Tracks & Creator Leads (Emails, Socials & Plays)

Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by SoundCloud or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. "SoundCloud" is referenced only to describe the publicly available website this Actor collects data from.

Extract complete SoundCloud data — full artist profiles (followers, track counts, play counts, city, country, Pro status), tracks and playlists with genres and play stats, and turn every artist into a ready-to-contact creator lead: the booking/management email from their bio, every linked social (Instagram, YouTube, Spotify, Twitter/X, TikTok, Facebook), and — optionally — emails & phone numbers crawled from their own website.

No login, no OAuth, no API key, no browser — fast JSON extraction from SoundCloud's own public API with 99%+ reliability.

Why this SoundCloud scraper?

Most SoundCloud scrapers return a track list and stop. This actor pulls from SoundCloud's internal api-v2 and ships the richest dataset in the category, built for A&R, sync licensing, distribution, PR, and artist outreach:

Data	Typical scrapers	This actor
Artist followers, track count, play/like counts	partial	✅
City, country, Pro/Next subscription, verified	❌	✅
Booking / management email (from the bio)	❌	✅
Linked socials — Instagram, YouTube, Spotify, TikTok, X	❌	✅
Artist's own website + crawled contact emails/phones	❌	✅ opt-in
Lead score (0–100) per artist	❌	✅
Tracks: genre, plays, likes, reposts, ISRC, license, label	partial	✅
Playlists & albums (track count, genre, release date)	❌	✅ opt-in
Monitoring — only new artists / tracks since last run	❌	✅

Use cases

• Music-industry lead generation — find independent artists, producers and beatmakers by genre or keyword and reach them directly via their booking/management email and socials. Score them by reach (followerCount, playbackCount).
• A&R & talent scouting — discover rising artists in a genre, filter by followers/plays, and monitor for new uploads with Schedules.
• Sync, distribution & label outreach — build target lists of unsigned artists with contact data, label names and ISRCs.
• Playlist & catalog research — pull tracks and playlists with genres, play counts and release dates for trend and market analysis.
• PR & influencer marketing — find creators by audience size and topic, then contact them with verified emails and social handles.

How to use

1. Sign up for Apify — the free plan is enough to try this actor.
2. Open the SoundCloud Scraper, choose a mode, enter search terms (or paste artist URLs), and click Start.
3. Watch results stream into the dataset table.
4. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS — or pull results programmatically via the Apify API.

Input

{
    "mode": "searchArtists",
    "searchTerms": ["lofi", "techno producer"],
    "maxResultsPerQuery": 50,
    "includeWebProfiles": true,
    "includeTracks": true,
    "maxTracksPerArtist": 10,
    "enrichCreatorContacts": true,
    "withEmailOnly": false
}

• mode — searchArtists (creators by keyword + leads), artistDetails (full profiles for specific artists, plus tracks/playlists), or searchTracks (tracks by keyword).
• searchTerms — keywords, genres or artist names. One row per term. Used by the search modes.
• artistUrls — profile URLs (https://soundcloud.com/flume), bare permalinks (flume) or numeric user ids. Used by artistDetails.
• maxResultsPerQuery — cap per search term (auto-paginated).
• includeWebProfiles (default true) — fetch each artist's linked socials + website (the lead wedge).
• includeTracks / maxTracksPerArtist — also output recent tracks per artist (type track).
• includePlaylists / maxPlaylistsPerArtist — also output playlists & albums per artist (type playlist).
• enrichCreatorContacts (default false) — crawl the artist's own website (home + contact/about, max 3 pages) for emails, phone and extra socials.
• minFollowers / withEmailOnly — output filters to tighten the result set to qualified leads.
• monitorMode (default false) — emit only records not seen in previous runs (see below).

Output

One record per artist (type: "artist"), plus optional track and playlist records:

{
    "type": "artist",
    "userId": 2976616,
    "urn": "soundcloud:users:2976616",
    "username": "flume",
    "displayName": "Flume",
    "profileUrl": "https://soundcloud.com/flume",
    "description": "Management: management@example.com",
    "city": "Sydney",
    "countryCode": "AU",
    "followerCount": 2227189,
    "trackCount": 231,
    "playlistCount": 46,
    "likesCount": 149,
    "isVerified": true,
    "isPro": true,
    "subscriptionTier": "creator-pro-unlimited",
    "avatarUrl": "https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-...-large.jpg",
    "website": "https://example.store",
    "socialLinks": {
        "facebook": "http://www.facebook.com/flumemusic",
        "twitter": "http://twitter.com/flumemusic",
        "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/user/flumeaus",
        "instagram": "http://instagram.com/flume",
        "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/artist/..."
    },
    "webProfiles": [
        { "network": "instagram", "title": "Instagram", "url": "http://instagram.com/flume", "username": "flume" }
    ],
    "descriptionEmails": ["management@example.com"],
    "contactEmails": [],
    "contactPhones": [],
    "leadScore": 92,
    "searchQuery": "electronic",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-16T00:00:00.000Z"
}

A track record carries trackId, title, permalinkUrl, genre, playbackCount, likesCount, repostsCount, commentCount, durationMs/durationFormatted, license, labelName, isrc, releaseDate, plus the artist summary (artistId, artistName, artistUrl).

How much does it cost to scrape SoundCloud?

This Actor uses Apify's pay-per-event pricing: you are charged only for the results it delivers, with no monthly rental and no start fee. The events it can charge are:

• Artist scraped - Full creator profile (followers, tracks, plays, city, country, Pro status), linked web profiles & creator–contact lead fields (booking email, socials, website, lead score).
• Track scraped - One track: title, artist, genre, plays, likes, reposts, duration, release date, license, label.
• Playlist scraped - One playlist/album: title, artist, track count, genre, duration, likes, release date.
• Creator contacts enriched - Website crawl of one artist for emails, phones & socials.

The current price of each event is shown on the Pricing tab of this page. Set a maximum total charge on the run if you want a hard cap on spend, and use the input limits to control how much the Actor fetches.

Automate & schedule

Run this actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API — start runs, fetch datasets, and manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and apify-client for Python — official SDKs.
• Schedules — run it hourly/daily/weekly with monitorMode on to capture only new artists or new uploads in a genre; perfect for A&R pipelines and newsletters.
• Webhooks — trigger downstream actions (CRM import, Slack alert, email sequence) the moment a run finishes.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/soundcloud-scraper').call({
    mode: 'searchArtists',
    searchTerms: ['hip hop beats'],
    maxResultsPerQuery: 50,
    enrichCreatorContacts: true,
    withEmailOnly: true,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} artist leads`);

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to 5,000+ apps — no code required:

• Make — multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier — push new creator leads straight into your CRM.
• Slack — get notified when a monitored search finds new artists.
• Google Drive / Sheets — auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte — pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub — trigger runs from commits or releases.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

The output is clean, LLM-ready JSON. You can call this actor from Claude, ChatGPT, or any agent framework through the Apify MCP server — ask your assistant to "find techno producers on SoundCloud with over 10k followers and list their contact emails" and let it run this scraper for you.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready — AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 — an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server — no account, no API key.
• Skyfire — agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

More scrapers from scrapesage

Build a complete creator / social lead-gen stack:

• YouTube Scraper — channels, videos and creator-contact leads.
• Apple Podcasts Scraper — shows, episodes, reviews and host leads.
• Substack Scraper — newsletters, posts and creator leads.
• Telegram Scraper — channels, messages, media and search.
• Product Hunt Scraper — launches, makers and leads.
• GitHub Scraper — repos, developers and contact leads.
• Eventbrite Scraper — events and organizer leads.
• Facebook Ad Library Scraper — competitor ad intelligence.

Tips

• Genre targeting: search broad genre terms (lofi, techno, drill, house) or niche ones — SoundCloud's search returns artists and tracks ranked by relevance.
• Best leads: turn on includeWebProfiles (default) for socials + website, then enrichCreatorContacts to crawl the website, and set withEmailOnly to keep only contactable artists.
• Recurring monitoring: combine Schedules with monitorMode to track only newly listed artists/tracks; it dedupes against earlier runs and never conflicts with the scheduler.
• Cost control: web-profile fetches and website crawls are per-artist; lower maxResultsPerQuery for quick test runs.

FAQ

Do I need a SoundCloud API key or login? No. The actor uses SoundCloud's public web API with the same public client_id the website uses, discovered automatically at runtime. If SoundCloud rotates that key and results look empty, paste a fresh one into the clientId input.

Where do the emails come from? From the artist's public bio (where many list a "Management" / "Booking" email) and their webProfiles. With enrichCreatorContacts on, the actor also visits the artist's own public website and extracts publicly listed contact emails — the same thing a human visitor would see.

Can I export to Google Sheets, CSV, or Excel? Yes — one click in the dataset view, or automatically on every run via the Google Drive integration.

How do I monitor new uploads automatically? Turn on monitorMode, then create a Schedule. Each run emits only artists/tracks not seen before.

A field is null — why? Some artists genuinely don't publish a city, website or email. Fields are null only when the data doesn't exist, not because the scraper skipped them.

Is scraping SoundCloud legal? This actor collects publicly available data only. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with applicable laws (GDPR/CCPA for personal data) and SoundCloud's terms.

Data & lawful use

This Actor reads only what SoundCloud publishes to logged-out visitors: it does not log in, use cookies or session tokens, create accounts, or reach anything behind a sign-in. Names, handles, bios and engagement figures are public, but they relate to identifiable people, so treat the output as personal data. If you are in the EU or UK you are the data controller for what you do with it: have a lawful basis (usually legitimate interest for research, marketing analytics or B2B prospecting), honour access and deletion requests, and do not use the output for spam or unsolicited messaging.

Under Apify's Standard Actor Contract, which governs your use of this Actor, you are the controller of any personal data in your input and output and scrapesage acts only as your processor: that data is processed solely to run your job, written only to your own Apify storage, never used for any other purpose and never shared onward. If you need help with a data-subject request that involves this Actor's output, open an issue on the Issues tab.

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by SoundCloud or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

"SoundCloud" and any related marks are the property of their respective owners and are used here only in a descriptive, nominative sense - to identify the publicly accessible website from which this Actor collects data. This Actor is not an official SoundCloud product, is not authorised or certified by SoundCloud, and does not distribute SoundCloud software. It collects only publicly available information; you are responsible for ensuring your use of that data complies with applicable laws, regulations and the terms of the source website.

Need help?

Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab, or visit the Apify help center. Feature requests are welcome — this actor is actively maintained.