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In juyeongkim/lastfmr: An R interface to Last.fm

lastfmr

WORK IN PROGRESS

lastfmr is an R interface to Last.fm.

Installation

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("juyeongkim/lastfmr")

Get API Key

• Create an API account
• Read API Terms of Service
• Copy and save the API key somewhere safe
• On your R console, set environment variable with your API key:

Sys.setenv(lastfm_key = "yourAPIKey")

Examples

Get user's top 5 artists

library(lastfmr)
top5 <- user_getTopArtists("platyjus", limit = 5)

dplyr::glimpse(top5)

## Observations: 5
## Variables: 10
## $ name             <chr> "Leon Bridges", "::M∆DE::IN::HEIGHTS::", "The...
## $ playcount        <chr> "295", "290", "251", "233", "222"
## $ mbid             <chr> "", "72c9f2ac-12ca-4a2a-ae79-6b19bd1e5b73", "...
## $ url              <chr> "https://www.last.fm/music/Leon+Bridges", "ht...
## $ streamable       <chr> "0", "0", "0", "0", "0"
## $ image.extralarge <chr> "https://lastfm-img2.akamaized.net/i/u/300x30...
## $ image.large      <chr> "https://lastfm-img2.akamaized.net/i/u/174s/4...
## $ image.medium     <chr> "https://lastfm-img2.akamaized.net/i/u/64s/4e...
## $ image.small      <chr> "https://lastfm-img2.akamaized.net/i/u/34s/4e...
## $ `@attr.rank`     <chr> "1", "2", "3", "4", "5"

top5$name

## [1] "Leon Bridges"          "::M∆DE::IN::HEIGHTS::" "The Lumineers"        
## [4] "Lisa Hannigan"         "Kendrick Lamar"

Get album information

fearfun <- album_getInfo("Father John Misty", "Fear Fun")

dplyr::glimpse(fearfun)

## Observations: 1
## Variables: 12
## $ name             <chr> "Fear Fun"
## $ artist           <chr> "Father John Misty"
## $ mbid             <chr> "da07a173-bf3d-4e7e-995d-ce473ce83030"
## $ url              <chr> "https://www.last.fm/music/Father+John+Misty/...
## $ image.extralarge <chr> "https://lastfm-img2.akamaized.net/i/u/300x30...
## $ image.large      <chr> "https://lastfm-img2.akamaized.net/i/u/174s/2...
## $ image.medium     <chr> "https://lastfm-img2.akamaized.net/i/u/64s/24...
## $ image.small      <chr> "https://lastfm-img2.akamaized.net/i/u/34s/24...
## $ listeners        <chr> "249377"
## $ playcount        <chr> "4985944"
## $ tracks           <list> [<c("Funtimes in Babylon", "Nancy From Now O...
## $ tags             <list> [<c("2012", "best of 2012", "availableonemus...

fearfun$tracks[[1]][, c("name", "duration")]

##                                    name duration
## 1                   Funtimes in Babylon      220
## 2                     Nancy From Now On      234
## 3      Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings      191
## 4                   I'm Writing a Novel      215
## 5  O I Long to Feel Your Arms Around Me      143
## 6              Misty's Nightmares 1 & 2      193
## 7             Only Son of the Ladiesman      249
## 8                 This Is Sally Hatchet      238
## 9        Well, You Can Do It Without Me      163
## 10     Now I'm Learning to Love the War      262
## 11                        Tee Pees 1-12      196
## 12           Everyman Needs a Companion      320

juyeongkim/lastfmr documentation built on June 6, 2019, 12:07 a.m.