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Comment by fiatpandas | Hacker News Reader

Glad I've had a script running for the last 6 months that has been polling + backing up my soundcloud favorites. This is stuff that, if SoundCloud went under, I would never be able to find nor listen to again. It really is depressing to think how much music culture disappears with SoundCloud.

I'm doing the same with my YouTube stuff, but not because I think it's going anywhere anytime soon.

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Seriously, when the shit hits the fan, it is data troves like this that will re-ignite culture and humanity. So many things from my youth that we highly prevalent are totally gone to the sands of time. Remembering via downloading is to internalize your own memories. Vendor your own ephemeral existence.

That's exactly it. With the internet, you have to take your memories into your own hands. Everything is ephemeral. Even if you think you're paying for it, it can disappear.

Is that or s similar script somewhere public? I'd like to do the same.

Yea, I would love that script. Online services I've used to download my likes kinda suck.

https://github.com/flyingrub/scdl

I used this one to download all of my soundcloud likes and some tracks/likes of other users, was pretty fast/painless

Check out YouTube-DL. It supports SoundCloud, and I believe you can point it to playlist URLs for batch downloading.

Yeap. Just pass --batch-file <file with urls>

Also, you can give it a SoundCloud user or a playlist, and it'll download it all. And if you use --download-archive, you can re-run it later and it'll only download the new songs.

I have a cron with no scripting, just the youtube-dl command, that pulls down new videos from an YouTube channel every week. It's awesome.

Heres my script https://github.com/jbhamilton/Soundcloud-Downloader

"Glad I've had a script running for the last 6 months that has been polling + backing up my soundcloud favorites."

Can you share who your soundcloud favorites are ?

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