SoundScrape

I have a very similar story! I maintain a similar project for SoundCloud called SoundScrape: https://github.com/Miserlou/soundscrape which I started for a similar reason, to save my own 'likes' and tracks that I've made and my friends have made. SoundCloud made this very easy, as they had an API which exposed the endpoint MP3/WAV location in a field. The tool used an API key provided by SoundCloud to fetch the response. Overnight and without warning, they removed that field from responses, changed the terms of service, banned my application for terms of service violations, and deleted all of my personal music and likes because I had used my own account to create the API key. I was very angry at the time since all my my music got deleted, but these days I'm just sad. Things like this have little by little destroyed all of my enthusiasm for

Back up your Soundcloud files (in case they disappear for good!) with SoundScrape: https://github.com/Miserlou/SoundScrape

I really like that Bandcamp supports "pay what you want" as an option, I find I'm always more likely to buy music when that's a possibility. That being said, I also wrote a BandCamp scraper, https://github.com/Miserlou/SoundScrape , so maybe I have weird priorities. Either way, I love BC way, way more than SoundCloud. In the long run, at the scale that BC-type artists operate, I think that the merch game is actually bigger than the paying-for-music game. They've made a few moves in that space, but I get the impression that BigCartel is actually the sleeping giant. I think whoever can combine BigCartel, BandCamp and a _manufacturing_ component into a single experience will be the winner.

I wrote a specific SoundCloud downloader that's very easy to use: pip install soundscrape soundscrape black-moth-super-rainbow https://github.com/Miserlou/SoundScrape