Freesound Client

This Library is a wrapper around the freesound API, an application interface that allows you to browse, search and retrieve information stored in the Freesound.org Database. For more information visit the developer page

https://freesound.org/help/developers/

DISCLAIMER The official python library is the freesound-python. This implementation has been developed for teaching purpose.

The Freesound API is very well documented, and it is a useful resource to make the best use out of this library.

Python Versions

This project has different branches for the following Python versions:

• main (3.11)
• 3.10
• 3.8

for full annotation and hints support download and use main

Before you start

Dependencies

This software depends on the requests library which can be installed globally or locally (in a virtual environment) via pip

pip install requests

or

pip3 install requests

The API Credentials

In order to use this software you need an account on freesound.org and apply for an API key following this link https://freesound.org/apiv2/apply/. The form is quite straight forward in the Create new API credentials you must give a name and a description to your key, accept the terms of use and click on Request new access crediantials

Documentation

You can find tutorials and the full documentation of this library at the following link: https://ddgg-el.github.io/freesound-client/

A special thanks to

Davide Bardi

Francesca Seggioli

Alessandro Cagiano

Marco Rotondella

for their collaboration in developing this library