I'm trying to implement Soundcloud connect and having a weird issue.
First thing I do is send my users to
https://soundcloud.com/connect?client_id=MY_CLIENT_ID&redirect_uri=http://myredirecturl.example.com&state=RANDOM_STRING&display=page&response_type=code&scope=email
When users connect they get redirected to
http://myredirecturl.example.com?error=invalid_scope&error_description=The+requested+scope+is+invalid%2C+unknown%2C+or+malformed.&state=RANDOM_STRING
The same happens if I use scope=*
.
However, if I use scope=non-expiring
it lets me go through, but I need the users email and that type of scope doesn't have enough grants.
I thought it had something to do with my app being in development mode, but Osman at Soundcloud said it doesn't.
Thanks.
The 'email' scope is not available to all integrations. It's used for a few custom integrations that have provided us with accepted terms of service / privacy policies. There is no way to get a user's email address using the SoundCloud API.
You should however be able to use the '*' scope to get an expiring access token. I'll check with our app team to see why this is giving you an error. I'll edit my answer once I have more information there.
For your purposes, I would stay with the 'non-expiring' scope and simply prompt a user for their email address (providing them with a way to agree to your terms of use / privacy information).
Using scope=*
sometimes doesn't work because the url is not properly encoded. If you are getting this error while using the *
wildcard, try properly encoding the url, using a function like urlencode() (for PHP).