# scdl-org/scdl

Soundcloud Music Downloader

Repository: https://github.com/scdl-org/scdl
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/scdl
Language: Python
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: soundcloud-music-downloader, python, soundcloud, music, downloader
Last push: 2026-08-20T06:34:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4353, "days_push": 13, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4099, forks 398 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:35.516524+00:00)

## What it is
scdl is a Python command-line tool for downloading music, playlists, likes, and reposts from SoundCloud, with automatic ID3 metadata tagging. Since version 3 it acts as a wrapper around yt-dlp with SoundCloud-specific defaults and is in maintenance mode.

## Use cases
- download tracks from soundcloud
- download all uploads of a soundcloud user
- download a user's likes or favorites
- download a soundcloud playlist
- sync a playlist and skip already downloaded tracks
- add id3 metadata to downloaded soundcloud music

## When to choose
- you want a simple CLI to bulk-download SoundCloud tracks, playlists, or user likes with metadata
- you need cross-platform Python tooling with ffmpeg support
- you want incremental syncing via a download archive

## When to avoid
- you need active development or new features beyond what yt-dlp offers
- you want a GUI downloader
- you are downloading from platforms other than SoundCloud

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-scraping, cli, file-system
- domain: media, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform, windows
- tags: soundcloud, music-downloader, yt-dlp, id3-tags, audio, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- scdl-org/scdl (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:35.516524+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:23:17.648364+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/scdl-org/scdl (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:35.516524+00:00, sha 3cfc03da6502)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/scdl/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:14:51.838623+00:00, sha 5841deb85706)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.