Why retrieving soundcloud tracks gives 403 forbidden error?

I am trying to retrieve my uploaded tracks from soundcloud using this API after getting client_id from browser inspector, but it gives me "403 Forbidden"

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I don't know what language you are using, but I stumbled across the same problem in my c# application. I solved it by adding a new Header key-value pair to my GET request.

"Authorization":"OAuth x-xxxxx"

You get the OAuth token by logging in on your soundcloud and searching the Cookies for oauth_token. Just append that to "OAuth " and your are good to go. This also allows you to access some user-related features on the api.