Create an Audius account if you do not have one already.
Head to the Settings page and select "Manage Your Apps." Follow the prompts to create a new developer app and get your Audius API Key and API Secret.

:::tip

Make sure you save your API Secret somewhere safe — treat it like a password.

:::

Install the SDK

Node.js

If your project is in a Node.js environment, run this in your terminal:

npm install @audius/sdk

@audius/sdk on NPM

HTML + JS

Otherwise, include the SDK script tag in your web page. The Audius SDK will then be assigned to window.audiusSdk.

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@audius/sdk@latest/dist/sdk.min.js"></script>

Initialize the SDK

Initialize the SDK with your API key.

If you plan to write data to Audius (e.g. upload a track, favorite a playlist, etc.), then pass in your API secret as well.

Node.js example

import { sdk } from '@audius/sdk'

const audiusSdk = sdk({
  apiKey: 'Your API Key goes here',
  apiSecret: 'Your API Secret goes here'
})

HTML + JS example

const audiusSdk = window.audiusSdk({ apiKey: 'Your API key goes here' })

:::warning

Do NOT include your API secret if you are running the SDK on the frontend, as this will expose your secret.

:::

Make your first API call using the SDK

Once you have the initialized SDK instance, it's smooth sailing to making your first API calls.

:::note

If you included your API secret in the previous step, you'll be able do both reads (e.g. fetching a playlist) and writes (e.g. reposting a playlist) to Audius. Otherwise, you'll be able to read data only.

:::

// Fetch your first track!
const track = await audiusSdk.tracks.getTrack({ trackId: 'D7KyD' })
console.log(track, 'Track fetched!')

// If you initialized the SDK with your API secret, you can write data as well.
// For example, to favorite the track above:
const userId = (
  await audiusSdk.users.getUserByHandle({
    handle: 'Your Audius handle goes here'
  })
).data?.id
const track = await audiusSdk.tracks.favoriteTrack({
  trackId: 'D7KyD',
  userId
})

Full Node.js example

import { sdk } from '@audius/sdk'

const audiusSdk = sdk({
  apiKey: 'Your API Key goes here',
  apiSecret: 'Your API Secret goes here'
})

const track = await audiusSdk.tracks.getTrack({ trackId: 'D7KyD' })
console.log(track, 'Track fetched!')

const userId = (
  await audiusSdk.users.getUserByHandle({
    handle: 'Your Audius handle goes here'
  })
).data?.id

const track = await audiusSdk.tracks.favoriteTrack({
  trackId: 'D7KyD',
  userId
})
console.log('Track favorited!')

:::note

Writing data (such as uploading or favoriting a track) is only possible if you provide an apiSecret

:::

Full HTML + JS example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@audius/sdk@latest/dist/sdk.min.js"></script>
    <script>
      const fn = async () => {
        const audiusSdk = window.audiusSdk({
          apiKey: 'Your API Key goes here'
        })
        const track = await audiusSdk.tracks.getTrack({ trackId: 'D7KyD' })
        console.log(track, 'Track fetched!')
      }

      fn()
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Example content</h1>
  </body>
</html>

What's next?

Get authorization to access your app's users' Audius accounts
Explore the API docs to see what else you can do with the Audius SDK

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