🎧 dj-soundcloud-digger

The ultimate crate-digging companion for DJs and electronic music collectors. Instantly extract purchase links, free downloads, and download gates from SoundCloud playlists, user likes, or artist profiles—then preview tracks and manage your library in a high-performance terminal interface.

dj-digger https://soundcloud.com/someone/sets/that-playlist

⚡ Highlights & Features

• 🚀 Ultra-Fast API v2 Digging: Digs a 300-track playlist in ~3 seconds using batch hydration API calls—no browser scrolling or DOM scraping required.
• 🏷️ Smart Store & Gate Classification: Group links automatically into Bandcamp, Beatport, Traxsource, JunoDownload, Record Shops, Download Gates (Hypeddit, Toneden, etc.), Smart links, and Direct SoundCloud Downloads.
• 🎶 In-Memory Audio Preview: Zero-latency streaming and seeking powered by miniaudio. Pre-fetches upcoming tracks and renders dynamic 16-level block waveforms with reactive audio level meters.
• 📦 Multi-Crate Local Library: Save dig sessions as local crates in ~/.local/share/dj-digger/crates/. Switch, refresh, or search across crates seamlessly.
• 🧠 Cross-Crate Track Memory: Track decisions (got it / skipped) are stored globally by SoundCloud track ID. Buying a track once marks it across all future playlists.
• 🔓 Download Gate Automation: Resolves follow-to-download gates (Hypeddit, ToneDen, GateRush, Droploud) by replaying their step-completion calls. No browser automation, no Playwright.
• 📄 Saved-HTML Fallback: Fully supports saved HTML pages (Ctrl+S) for private or unlisted SoundCloud playlists.
• ⚙️ CLI & Non-Interactive Mode: Export crates directly to JSON or CSV for automated pipelines and scripts.

📦 Installation

Recommended (via uv or pipx)

# Install with audio preview support (requires miniaudio)
uv tool install 'dj-soundcloud-digger[play]'

or with pipx:

pipx install 'dj-soundcloud-digger[play]'

From Source (Development)

git clone https://github.com/fbialogrecki/dj-soundcloud-digger.git
cd dj-soundcloud-digger
uv venv
uv pip install -e '.[play,dev]'

Requires Python 3.12 or newer.

Note on optional extras:

• play: Enables in-memory audio preview via miniaudio. If installed without [play], the tool runs normally and displays an advisory if audio playback is requested.

🔗 Supported Input Links

🖥️ Interactive TUI Workflow

Launching dj-digger opens an interactive Textual browser divided into three key areas:

1. Crate Sidebar (Ctrl+B): Switch between saved crates, add new links (d), or refresh existing crates (r).
2. Track Table: Displays tracks with status badges (· untouched, ○ opened, ✓ got, ✗ skipped), position, artist/title, available store badges, genre, and duration.
3. Player & Waveform Bar: Shows playback state, position, volume, real-time VU level meter, and a 16-level waveform display.

▸ 0 all  1 soundcloud·18  2 bandcamp·12  3 gate·53      83/83 tracks · got 0 · skipped 4

Keybinding Reference

Press ? inside the TUI at any time to view the full grouped keybinding modal.

Track Navigation & Status Marks

Audio Preview Controls

Filtering, Stores & Library

🏷️ Store & Gate Categories

Links are parsed and categorized using strict domain-boundary matching:

🎧 In-Memory Streaming & Waveform Engine

• Zero-Latency Playback: Decodes audio chunks directly off the network socket in memory via miniaudio.
• Pre-Fetching & Gapless Transitions: While listening to a track, the next track's stream URL, waveform data, and initial MBs are buffered 20 seconds prior to track completion.
• SoundCloud Waveform Rendering: Renders SoundCloud's 1800-sample waveform data into a 2-row block ASCII visualizer with logarithmic loudness scaling.
• Reactive Audio VU Metering: Real-time RMS audio signal measurement rendered at 30 FPS.
• Remote SSH / Headless Systems: Automatically degrades to 4 FPS under TEXTUAL_ANIMATIONS=none for smooth operation over SSH connections.

🤖 Non-Interactive CLI & Automation

Add --no-tui to run dj-digger in batch mode for terminal pipelines, cron jobs, or export scripts:

# Export playlist links to CSV
dj-digger https://soundcloud.com/user/sets/playlist --no-tui -f csv -o playlist.csv

# Limit extraction to first 20 tracks and export to JSON
dj-digger https://soundcloud.com/user/likes -n 20 -f json -o likes.json

# Re-open a previously exported JSON crate in the TUI browser
dj-digger open likes.json

# Open all Bandcamp links directly in browser from a saved crate
dj-digger open likes.json --category bandcamp

🏗️ Project Architecture

                       ┌─────────────────────────┐
                       │  SoundCloud URL / HTML  │
                       └────────────┬────────────┘
                                    │
                         ┌──────────▼──────────┐
                         │ SoundCloudClient v2 │
                         │ (Resolve & Hydrate) │
                         └──────────┬──────────┘
                                    │
                         ┌──────────▼──────────┐
                         │ Link Categorizer    │
                         │ (Store & Gate Engine│
                         └──────────┬──────────┘
                                    │
           ┌────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┐
           │                        │                        │
┌──────────▼──────────┐  ┌──────────▼──────────┐  ┌──────────▼──────────┐
│   Textual TUI App   │  │ Local Crate Library│  │ In-Memory Player   │
│ (Interactive Grid)  │  │ (~/.../crates/)    │  │ (Miniaudio & VU)   │
└─────────────────────┘  └────────────────────┘  └────────────────────┘

🧪 Testing & Quality Assurance

The codebase includes an extensive offline test suite covering unit tests, API serialization, player buffering, link parsing, and TUI reactive widgets.

# Run offline test suite (360+ tests, no network required)
uv run pytest

# Run live integration tests (verifies SoundCloud API v2 contract stability)
uv run pytest -m live

📄 License

Distributed under the Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE for details.