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SC.connect fails in node, documentation is misleading

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Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, node.js
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Review the Basic authorization section at https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/sdks#basic and compare its claim about Node with the reported getUserMedia failure in the SDK. Done means the documentation accurately distinguishes browser authorization from Node usage and no longer implies unsupported behavior.

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Description

This page seems to suggest that the authorization can also be done with node.
https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/sdks#basic

This is not true since it fails on getUserMedia since node does not execute this in a browser
/Users/Peter/Repositories/Vorpal/node_modules/soundcloud/sdk.js:8 this}())},function(t,e){(function(e){"use strict";var n=e.navigator.getUserMe ^ TypeError: Cannot read property 'getUserMedia' of undefined

Edit: this library does work with node: https://github.com/monbro/soundcloud-nodejs-api-wrapper

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