How do we get a genres popular tracks or top charts?

[AllFatherGray]

When using the tracks api, I get unexpected results and I also see that the old api that could get the charts for the top songs of each genre is not in the current api reference. Is there a replacement? Some people on stackoverflow are suggesting html parsing but that can't be the current solution, right?

[youssefhassan]

Can you please share the endpoints you are looking for?
Also can you please mention your soundcloud profile so I can check your application?

[AllFatherGray]

@youssefhassan
I was looking at this endpoint: https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/explorer/open-api#/search/get_tracks
There seems to be no list of acceptable genres to put in without looking elsewhere.

These are old guides but I saw 2020 repos doing something similar:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13285555/using-the-genres-filter-on-soundcloud-api
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35688367/access-soundcloud-charts-with-api

But I would rather use the developer supported routes.
I'm trying to get the top songs of a specific genre.

Thanks in advance.

[youssefhassan]

As I mentioned on the other thread, public APIs don't offer genres or top tracks per genres. There is a higher tier of API access where there are more features offered around discovering content on SoundCloud genres and top tracks can be retrieved

[AllFatherGray]

@youssefhassan Is that access something I must pay for?

I already have a developer account.
My app was a game that was going to analyze a song and generate a picture/level from the notes in it.

The genre was to provide a weight as well.
The search by genre doesn't seem to offer a way to get songs by top ratings but I see other api repos scraping the charts page and other stuff to obtain the info. Is there a supported way to achieve this?