#SOUNDCLOUD BOT HOW TO#

Collaborations with Zedd, 3lau, Loudpvck & Snails soon followed as well as an even heavier touring schedule. This time for The Chainsmokers' вЂњ#SELFIEвЂќ, which really put Botnek on the map. More singles for Dim Mak followed, along with another viral remix. Shifting styles into more main stage ready Electro House and Big Room, the duo began touring internationally. The duo gained far more attention from this than ever expected, and started the next chapter in their career. From the signing to Dim Mak came a number of singles & EPs, tours in America, and their viral edit of Martin GarrixвЂ™s hit вЂњAnimalsвЂќ. It wasn't much longer until Dim Mak Records & Steve Aoki were interested in signing the project to the label. In this first chapter of their careers, the duo toured first in Europe and Asia, in clubs such as Fabric, Sub Club, and Bootshaus. The guys landed a couple of key remix opportunities from this early buzz around the project from names including Crookers, AC Slater, Felix Cartal & Jack Beats. Soon after forming a strong friendship through similar musical interests, the project was formed, which led to a string of releases with a number of up & coming fidget & electro house labels.

With a shortage of inspiration in the form of nightclubs and generally an unlikely scene for the quiet seaside Canadian town, Gordon & Erick bonded over Ableton tips, dance music blogs and late night radio shows on BBC Radio 1. ( and are the first two.Label heads at // All other inquires: / demos: Huntley & Erick Muise joined forces as Botnek back in 2008 in Halifax, Nova Scotia through a shared love for house music. (This tweet and account have since been deleted.) Twitter user also had this idea in July of 2015. I could not have created this bot without help from the following people and resources: Randomly select one of the comments that is useable. If either is untrue, get another track at random.Д¬heck all comments using the criteria listed above. Checks whether the track still exists and if it has any comments. The soundcloud-comments-bot.js script does the following:Д¬hooses a track at random from SoundCloud. The primary reason for this filter is preventing abusive language appearing in my bot in a language that I don't speak and thus cannot filter out. The library is imperfect for checking informal, comment-style language, but helps discard most non-English comments. I also filter out any comment including any of the bad words listed in Darius Kazemi's wordfilter.ДЇinally, I use the Yandex translation API to ensure the comment is English.

anything pointing to another user or track on SoundCloud.

replies and mentions (anything including the symbol).

classic spam ( free, dollars, cam, sex).

self-promotion (anything including the words follow, check out, blog, and any of a half-dozen social networks).

So I filter the potential comments rigorously. My aesthetic for this bot is simple, text-only, anonymous. And now it works again! Filtering Comments In any case, I had to rework this script to first fetch a random track and then check if it has any useable comments.

(Strangely, the API itself is still returning URIs for comments as though the endpoint still existed-e.g., check the uri property on this comment.) The script picks a number at random, checks if the comment still exists, and passes it on for filtering.ДЄs of Mathe /comments endpoint was apparently removed from the SoundCloud API, so this stopped working! There was no notice of this on the SoundCloud API blog, but the API reference has nothing about a comments endpoint anymore.

I found an old comment ID at 100000000, a recent one at 500000010, and figured that 190 million comments was more than enough of a well from which to draw. Then I discovered that track IDs (and comment IDs) are sequential.

#SOUNDCLOUD BOT HOW TO#

How I Built It Getting Random CommentsДЄt first I struggled with how to retrieve a random comment-the SoundCloud API doesn't allow for getting random nodes. SoundCloud comments have a certain character: a lot of concise and enthusiastic praise, a ton of spam, the occasional multi-sentence opinion on the production, and, rarely, a negative review. This bot is currently posting every few hours to both Twitter and Mastodon.ДЄs a lover of music I spend a lot of time on SoundCloud, and can't help but notice the comments.

A bot that posts random comments from SoundCloud.

Soundcloud bot