This is a script I have developed to create comprehensive archives of Soundcloud pages. It downloads every track available on a given Soundcloud page as an MP3 and performs appropriate ID3 tagging, along with track/album art; there is also optional functionality to download all reposts as well.

USER INPUT

To use this script, simply set the url to a full url address for a Soundcloud page, e.g: https://soundcloud.com/kendrick-lamar-music. The downloadReposts flag can be set to True or False depending on whether you want the script to also download every track, album, etc.. that has been reposted onto the given page.

DOWNLOAD STRUCTURE

Running this script will create a directory under its root directory, named after the given Soundcloud page. It will create up to three subdirectories here:

• Albums (where all albums will be located)
• Playlists (see above)
• {artist name} Soundcloud Files (rips of every track on the page, including duplicates of those included in all Albums and Playlists, will be included here)
• Reposts (this will contain subdirectories for every artist whose tracks/albums/etc. were reposted onto the given page. they will each follow the same download structure recursively)

TECHNOLOGIES USED

Out of many packages used to power this script, these are the most essential / those which I researched the most thoroughly to make this script possible:

• Selenium: automates the simulated Chromium browser, which is used to load every track on the given Soundcloud page into the browser's DOM before downloading them
• BeautifulSoup: simplifies process of webscraping in Python; used to extract audio metadata from static Soundcloud page DOM
• youtube_dl: makes downloading the tracks possible in the first place; functionality regarding download quality, metadata, tagging, etc... are used extensively in this script
• Mutagen: Python module that provides the ID3 tagging required for MP3 downloads; allows downloads to be readily used in audio players with comprehensive metadata visualization

CONSIDERATIONS

This script is powered by the Chrome WebDriver, which makes it possible for Selenium to access webpages using Chrome / Chromium. This repo currently contains the WebDriver version suited for Chrome version 131.0.6778.85. Please follow the provided link to obtain a WebDriver .exe for different Chromium versions.

While the script downloads all associated artwork from a given track, album, or playlist, it does not assign the artwork to the audio file itself via ID3 tagging. This must be done manually; I will look into providing a utility script to quickly accomplish this in the future.