from json import loads from urllib import urlencode categories = ['music'] guest_client_id = 'b45b1aa10f1ac2941910a7f0d10f8e28' url = 'https://api.soundcloud.com/' search_url = url + 'search?{query}&facet=model&limit=20&offset=0&linked_partitioning=1&client_id='+guest_client_id def request(query, params): global search_url params['url'] = search_url.format(query=urlencode({'q': query})) return params def response(resp): global base_url results = [] search_res = loads(resp.text) for result in search_res.get('collection', []): if result['kind'] in ('track', 'playlist'): title = result['title'] content = result['description'] results.append({'url': result['permalink_url'], 'title': title, 'content': content}) return results