Verified status on artist search results

[belasmith1997]

I am searching artists by using https://api.soundcloud.com/users API. but I can not get the artist data I want.

[dpreussler]

Hi @belasmith1997 can you tell us a bit more? What artist are you looking for with the request you are doing?

[belasmith1997]

By using this API I am integrating an artist list into a website. But all the artists are not coming. Example if I search in the SoundCloud I am getting the artist =>

But when I search the artist using the API I am not getting these artists. You can see the verified artists are on top. then others are coming.

[dpreussler]

Hi @belasmith1997 thanks for the additional info
When I search for "& me" via API
https://api.soundcloud.com/users?q=%26%20me&limit=3&offset=0&linked_partitioning=true

I'm getting exactly the same results:

https://soundcloud.com/andmeandyou
https://soundcloud.com/listenbeltran
https://soundcloud.com/erfanpaydar

[belasmith1997]

How can i know that the artist is verified or not?

[dpreussler]

Currently we do not expose the verified status on the API

[belasmith1997]

So how can we know whether the user is verified or not?

[belasmith1997]

Acutally, we have seen some websites use SoundCloud APIs,
such as : https://soundcloud.shotgun.live/api/users/search?q=%26%20me
Where they get a verified flag in the response.
We wish to achieve the same.

[dpreussler]

@belasmith1997 currently we do not offer the verified status on our public API.
We are currently working on our artist verification program, so this info can change in the future

I'm keeping this issue open for visibility

[DevSciCloan]

I would also like to bump this thread.
I am developing an app that could really use a verified boolean field in the /me response object.
I would like to use this to authenticate verified artists to be able to access pages that normal users cannot.