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BigSoundBank

Joseph Sardin's BigSoundBank: about 3,600 free CC0 sound effects and ambiences. Search by keyword and UCS category with sorting and filters, and read one sound with recording details, licence, attribution and direct WAV/AIFF/MP3/OGG/FLAC file URLs.

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1Request
number

Sound number, e.g. 1 for Dial Phone #1.

string

A sound page URL: bigsoundbank.com/<name>-s<number>.html, /s<number>.html, or the older /sound-<number>-... and /detail-<number>-... forms.

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const result = await firecrawl.scrape({
  alexandria: {
    provider: "bigsoundbank-com",
    capability: "sound-effects/get_sound",
    options: {
      id: 1,
    },
  },
});
2Response example

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{
  "attribution": "\"Dial Phone #1\" by Joseph SARDIN, BigSoundBank.com (https://bigsoundbank.com/dial-phone-s0001.html), CC0 1.0",
  "bit_depth": 16,
  "categories": [
    {
      "code": "COMTelph",
      "name": "Communications / Telephone"
    }
  ],
  "channels": "Monophonic",
  "conditions": "Studio",
  "creator": {
    "name": "Joseph SARDIN",
    "url": "https://josephsardin.fr/"
  },
  "description": "Old phone: ring (x3), stall (x1), hangup (x1).",
  "disposition": null,
  "download_url": "https://bigsoundbank.com/UPLOAD/bwf-en/0001.wav",
  "downloads": [
    {
      "format": "wav",
      "mime_type": "audio/wav",
      "size_bytes": 2347090,
      "url": "https://bigsoundbank.com/UPLOAD/bwf-en/0001.wav"
    },
    {
      "format": "aiff",
      "mime_type": "audio/aiff",
      "size_bytes": 2345870,
      "url": "https://bigsoundbank.com/UPLOAD/aiff/0001.aiff"
    },
    {
      "format": "mp3",
      "mime_type": "audio/mpeg",
      "size_bytes": 322143,
      "url": "https://bigsoundbank.com/UPLOAD/mp3/0001.mp3"
    },
    {
      "format": "ogg",
      "mime_type": "audio/ogg",
      "size_bytes": 674401,
      "url": "https://bigsoundbank.com/UPLOAD/ogg/0001.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "duration_seconds": 27,
  "equipment": null,
  "format": "wav",
  "id": 1,
  "license": {
    "attribution_required": false,
    "code": "CC0-1.0",
    "commercial_use": true,
    "label": "CC0 (public domain): Free and royalty-free",
    "name": "Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (also offered as WTFPL or a public domain dedication)",
    "terms_url": "https://bigsoundbank.com/licenses.html",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"
  },
  "observed_at_ms": 1793744203908,
  "page_url": "https://bigsoundbank.com/dial-phone-s0001.html",
  "preview_url": "https://bigsoundbank.com/UPLOAD/mp3/0001.mp3",
  "published_at": "2006-03-15T08:00:00+01:00",
  "rating": {
    "best": 10,
    "count": 475,
    "value": 6.5
  },
  "realism": "Realistic",
  "sample_rate": 44100,
  "sound_type": "Alone sound",
  "source_url": "https://bigsoundbank.com/s0001.html",
  "tags": [
    "dial",
    "old",
    "phone",
    "ring",
    "ringtone",
    "landline",
    "ringing",
    "call",
    "tune",
    "melody",
    "hang",
    "up",
    "land",
    "line",
    "retro",
    "ringout",
    "ringer",
    "mechanics",
    "museumofsounds",
    "rotary",
    "telephonic"
  ],
  "title": "Dial Phone #1"
}

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