Off the Rip

"Future Proof" method of downloading Soundcloud audio and embedding ID3 tags (title, artist, artwork) within the resulting file.

Installing

npm i -g off-the-rip

# Update
npm update -g off-the-rip

After cloning the repo...

brew install eyeD3 phantomjs rtmpdump
npm install
npm link # Gives you access to `otr` in your terminal

The CLI has only one command, dl. It takes two required parameters, url and dir.

otr dl https://soundcloud.com/artist/track ~/Music

var otr = require('off-the-rip');

otr('https://soundcloud.com/artist/track', '~/Music', function() {
   // Done
});

Network traffic on the soundcloud page is monitored and API requests and artwork are intercepted.
Page information is scraped (Title, Artist, etc)
Data is sent to Node where ID3 tags including artwork is written to the dist folder

This tool is in no way shape or form to be used for downloading copyrighted music, it is designed and built as a proof-of-concept.

MIT