Use the soundcloud API to search by geofilter
When trying to search for tracks based on the “geo” filter, I always get zero results. According to the documentation, you can use ***** as a wildcard to search for latitude/longitude ranges present in the “label list” for each track in the server response. We use the “Tags” filter when making POST requests.
For example
HttpResponse response = api.get("/tracks?tags=geo:lat%3D52.0*", null);
Returns zero results.
I’ve also tried omitting the “geo:” namespace reference, trying various latitude and longitude string variants such as ‘lat=52.0’ ‘geo:lat=52.0*’. Tried both urlencoded and non-urlencoded values and nothing seemed to work.
If I do
HttpResponse response = api.get("/tracks?tags=geo:", null);
This brings back the result that the geolocation is referenced in the tag list, so there must be a geotagged track in the database! I’ve copied one of the geo: positions from a random track into the POST parameter of the api request, but it doesn’t find the track.
As far as I know, another person submitted this issue on SO a month ago using JQuery Soundcloud api: Geo Tag search not working
Any help would be appreciated.
(FYI, the null parameter in the code I used above is just another option for passing the post parameter, you can choose to use the NameValuePair object, I also tried this way without success [when searching on a geofilter])
Solution
This should work
HttpResponse response = api.get("/tracks?geo:lat%3D52.0*", null);