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Cloudflare OAuth now supports optional scopes, giving users more control over what an app can access and helping developers build secure consent flows around the task at hand.
In May we opened self-service app registration for Artist Pro subscribers. That fixed the browser flow. Two requests kept coming up anyway…
Have you ever had a brilliant idea for a music app, a custom playlist curator, or a unique way to discover underground tracks on SoundCloud…
I have a new project where we will be integrating with a third party API that is currently being written. Due to Conway's Law, we are being sent new versions of the OpenAPI spec as a set of JSON files via email. I quite like seeing the HTML rendering of an OpenAPI spec when reading it and understanding it, so I knocked up a simple shell script that takes an OpenAPI spec file and outputs… continue reading.
At SoundCloud, we’re always looking for ways to improve the listening experience for our creators, partners, and listeners. One of the…
To all developers using SoundCloud’s public API — we’re introducing an important change that will affect how you reference resources like…
A while ago we made an improvement to how track and artist information is displayed on SoundCloud, making it clearer and easier to…
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Software isn't what it used to be. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it does come with its own set of challenges. In the past, if you wanted to build a feature, you'd have to build it from scratch, without AI 😱 Fast forward from the dark ages of just
We’re working on improving our API offering. In order to do that, a few changes are coming: We need to revoke access for some of you with…
Tens of thousands of API applications interact with Strava’s publicly available API, from small projects whose only users are the developers who created them to larger partners like Garmin, Zwift, Wahoo, or Peloton, who upload thousands of activities to Strava daily on our athletes’ behalf. Recently the API & Platform team undertook a project to redefine the way that Strava supports API applications and allows them to interact with Strava data (read more about the updated Developer program here).As part of the effort to redefine the management of API applications, a main requirement of the…
My name is Avery Dunn and I am a rising master’s student at Washington University in St. Louis studying computer science. For the past 12 weeks, I have been a software engineering intern on the API & Platform pod of the Foundation team. I am an active Strava user and have been for approximately 3 years with my favorite activity being running. Some other activities I enjoy are playing the piano, reading novels, or skiing (more of a luxury rather than a hobby). My internship at Strava has been a wonderful experience to help me learn, grow, and develop into becoming a more well-rounded,…
This article is the last part in a series of posts aiming to cast some light onto how service architecture has evolved at SoundCloud over…