SoundBash extracts the streaming URLs from SoundCloud. Either single track links or pages containing multiple tracks such as user pages or search results can be passed.
The most basic form of using soundbash is passing SoundCloud URLs to the script.
It will then extract up to ten pages of streaming URLs from each link. You can
change that number using the -m flag. If 0 or a negative number is passed,
soundbash will extract all URLs it can find.
If you want the tracks uploaded by a user, use -u username and
-f username for his or her favorites. You can extract URLs from tracks
posted to a group with -g group. The commands can be mixed. Please note
that -m only works for the URLs coming afterwards.
Extract the link for a single track:
soundbash "http://soundcloud.com/silvahound/silva-hound-martyr-original"
Extract the links from the first two pages of a user’s tracks:
soundbash -m 2 "http://soundcloud.com/silvahound/tracks"
Or shorter:
soundbash -m 2 -u silvahound
Even shorter, but not quite as clear:
soundbash -mu 2 silvahound
You can also mix:
soundbash -m 2 -f patagonicus -m 4 -g trance "http://soundcloud.com/powerlifter/tracks"
This will extract the first two pages of patagonicus’ favorites and the first four pages of the trance group and Powerlifter’s tracks. The short (and unreadable) version would be:
soundbash -mfmg 2 patagonicus 4 trance "http://soundcloud.com/powerlifter/tracks"
The URLs always have the form
http://media.soundcloud.com/stream/$ID?/$user/$track. You can therefore
get the track page from an URL by replacing everything up to (and including)
the quotation mark with http://soundcloud.com.