SocialFolders Releases SoundCloud Ruby Gem

There are many approaches to building libraries that wrap HTTP APIs. For many of our
officially supported SDKs we
chose to build light wrappers around HTTP client libraries with a few added features
to make it easier to work with the SoundCloud API. This approach has a few benefits.
It guarantees a certain consistency and is relatively easy to maintain. It’s also fairly
future proof. Changes in the HTTP API do not typically require updates to client libraries. Sometimes however, you might be looking for something a bit more feature-full, or with
more abstraction from our HTTP API. That’s why I was really happy to see that the great folks at
SocialFolders built an alternative SoundCloud Ruby gem and
released it to the public. You can check out their blog post
about it or go straight to the source on GitHub.

SocialFolders Releases SoundCloud Ruby Gem

July 6th, 2012 by Paul Osman

There are many approaches to building libraries that wrap HTTP APIs. For many of our
officially supported SDKs we
chose to build light wrappers around HTTP client libraries with a few added features
to make it easier to work with the SoundCloud API. This approach has a few benefits.
It guarantees a certain consistency and is relatively easy to maintain. It’s also fairly
future proof. Changes in the HTTP API do not typically require updates to client libraries.

Sometimes however, you might be looking for something a bit more feature-full, or with
more abstraction from our HTTP API. That’s why I was really happy to see that the great folks at
SocialFolders built an alternative SoundCloud Ruby gem and
released it to the public. You can check out their blog post
about it or go straight to the source on GitHub.

You can install the library from source or by running:

$ gem install soundcloud-client

The library is based on the excellent Faraday HTTP
client library and can therefore be used really easily with libraries like EventMachine
or Typhoeus. It also provides wrapper methods for all
SoundCloud API endpoints. This means that instead of calling a method named for an HTTP verb
and providing an endpoint path, you can write code that looks like this:

require 'soundcloud-client'

client = Soundcloud::API.new('ACCESS_TOKEN')
tracks = client.tracks(:order => 'hotness', :limit => 10)
tracks.each do |track|
puts "Track: #{track.title}"
end

It’s great to see tools like this coming out of our developer
community. Huge shout out to Saverio Trioni
and the rest of the SocialFolders team.

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