Efficiently adding tracks to playlist

[Ruud14]

Adding a track to a playlist cannot be done efficiently.

I am using the API to add tracks to a playlist. Currently my procedure is as follows:

1. GET the enitre playlist including all tracks and all track information. (https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/<playlist_id>)
2. From the response of the GET, take the ID of each track.
3. PUT https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/<playlist_id> with tracks set to the enitre list of track ids + the track id of the track to be added.

This is very inefficient because:

1. I need to make two requests just to add a track to a playlist.
2. The first request response can be huge for large playlists especially because all details for each track are included.

Ideally we would like to just have a seperate endpoint to add a track to a playlist. However, having a way to just fetch all tracks in a playlist without all detailed information of the tracks would already be a huge improvement.
Is there some way to do this?

[dpreussler]

Hi @Ruud14,
thanks for your input. This feature is currently only available for users of our partner API.
I would keep this issue here ope for future feature considerations for public api!
Thanks again and keep suggestions coming!

[Ruud14]

Hi @dpreussler
Thanks for your response. How does one apply for the access to the partner API?

[MariaVWSoundCloud]

@Ruud14 please reach out to [email protected] - the business development team can help you