# Upcoming API Security Updates -- Action Required

DevFeed: [Upcoming API Security Updates -- Action Required](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/upcoming-api-security-updates-action-required-2133.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//security-updates-api>)

Published: 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SoundCloud Backstage Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/soundcloud-backstage-blog.md>)

Topics: [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [OAuth 2.0](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/oauth2.md>), [TLS (Transport Layer Security)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tls.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>)

Tags: [announcements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcements.md>), [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [api-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api-security.md>), [auth](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/auth.md>), [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authorization.md>), [oauth](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/oauth.md>), [oauth-2-0](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/oauth-2-0.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [tls](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tls.md>), [tokens](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tokens.md>), [updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/updates.md>)

## AI overview

SoundCloud announces urgent API security updates requiring HTTPS/TLS, moving OAuth access tokens from URL query parameters to authorization headers, changing supported OAuth grant and response flows, requiring client credentials for server-side access to public resources, and handling six-hour token expiration.

## Source excerpt

As part of our continuous effort toward making improvements to our API with the hope that we can relaunch API access to all developers, we...