SoundCloud API for public profile data

One call. Real response.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $HH_KEY" \
  "https://honesthook.com/api/v1/soundcloud/profile?handle=edsheeran"

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "soundcloud",
  "endpoint": "soundcloud/profile",
  "data": {
    "author": {
      "id": "3685019",
      "handle": "edsheeran",
      "name": "Ed Sheeran",
      "followers": 2977786,
      "following": 0,
      "posts_count": 466,
      "verified": true,
      "is_private": null
    }
  },
  "error": null,
  "cached": false
}

Recorded response, captured 27 Sep 2026. A live call returns the value at the moment you ask. The same envelope comes back from every other platform — only platform and endpoint change.

What this endpoint does not return.

• No private accounts. SoundCloud has no private profile of this kind, so is_private is null.
• No plays and no likes. Those are per track, not per profile, and this endpoint answers about the profile.
• Not followings_count. It sits one letter away from followers_count in the same object and reads zero on the account measured, so the wrong field would have published a verified artist with no followers.

A field we cannot read comes back null, never 0. A zero would be a claim about the account; null is a fact about our collection.

The part you are handing over.

The number comes from the __sc_hydration block, which is real embedded JSON with seven counters in it, one of them right. Keeping the right one selected when SoundCloud reshuffles that block is what you are handing over.