fix 401 unauthorized - client_id not found

[DJoepie]

Somewhere between new years of 2026 and now the client id scraping broke, causing 401 authorized.
Apparently the current regex is not matching the client_id as they are now using : instead of =.

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Downloader working again after fix

[zHd4]

Btw there is a simplier way to fetch client id.
For example:

import re
import requests

def fetch_client_id():
    resp = requests.get('https://soundcloud.com')
    pattern = re.compile(r'"apiClient"[\s\S]*?"id"\s*:\s*"([^"]+)"')
    match = pattern.search(resp.text)
    if match:
        return match.group(1)
    return None


print(fetch_client_id())