UserData: Last.FM last.year data

In zappingseb/analyze_last_fm: What the package does (short line)

Description

This class can be used to import data for a specific http://www.last.fm user from a specific year by calling the user.getRecentTracks (https://www.last.fm/api/show/user.getRecentTracks) function. The whole data will be stored inside the data_table data.frame of the class.

Usage

data <- UserData$new(username, API_KEY, year, timezone)

album_analysis <- data$albumstats()

Arguments

username	character username character The http://www.last.fm user whos data shall be taken
API_KEY	character The http://www.last.fm API key of your app or any app
year	integer Year which shall be analyzed
timezone	numeric Compared time to GMT, for Warsaw or Berlin it's +1

Format

An R6Class generator object

Fields

username

character The http://www.last.fm user whos data shall be taken

apikey

character The http://www.last.fm API key of your app or any app

timezone

numeric Compared time to GMT, for Warsaw or Berlin it's +1

data_table

data.frame A data table containing the last years tracks of the user in the columns

• artist: Artist Name

• track: Track Name

• album: Album Name

• uts: Time as a Javascript time starting 1970-01-01

• datetext: Time as Human readible text

Methods

create_api(page)

This method uses page to create the API json call needed for last.fm

get_data(year)

This method downloads the last.fm data of a specific year into the data_table field

clean_data_duplicates()

This method will delete scrobbles that are duplicated due to issues of the last.fm / Spotify API

album_stats(exclude_artist="Die drei ???",exclude_album="",min_tracks=5,sort_by=c("by_total_count","by_album_count"))

This method creates a table with album statistics for the specific year

zappingseb/analyze_last_fm documentation built on Dec. 10, 2019, 1:19 a.m.