soundcloud-api/profile

SoundCloud profile API — followers, tracks, verified

Public SoundCloud profile: followers, following, tracks, bio, verified. Read from the __sc_hydration block, which is real embedded JSON.

Parameters

Name	What it is
`handle`	The SoundCloud handle.

Handle format and anchor

Handle: handle
Anchor: __sc_hydration

Where this goes wrong.

Seven counters live in that object and one of them is right. The dangerous neighbour is followings_count — one letter away from followers_count in the same object. On edsheeran it is ZERO, so the mistake would surface as an account with no followers rather than as an error.

Measured

About 110 KB decoded, about 16 KB on the wire, measured 2026-09-10.

Cost

1 credit per call. A call that finds nothing costs nothing.

What is the difference between followers_count and followings_count?

One letter, and the entire meaning. On some large accounts the second one is zero, so reading it looks like a working answer.

What happens with a handle that does not exist?

SoundCloud returns a real 404, unlike Medium.

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