last.fm
Discover music you'll love based on what you already like.
This API is best for creating music applications, personalizing webpages and finding related artists.
Developers should use the last.fm API because it allows them to create personalized music applications like radio stations, explore music and create interesting visualizations of user data. It also enables developers to find related artists and recommend music content to users to increase user engagement with the app. Additionally, last.fm's API is well-documented and easy to integrate with other services and platforms.
Key features
- The last.fm API allows developers to explore songs
- artists
- albums
- listeners
- userID lookups
- path lookups
- individual scrobbles and user scrobbles
- track playlists and more.
Potential use cases
- Artist Alerts: Create an app which sends notifications to users when one of their favourite artists has upcoming concerts, releases a new single or album, or is featured in a new article.
- Visual Discovery Platform: Create an interactive discovery platform which uses last.fm's API to generate visual elements and a timeline of music released by popular artists and suggest songs, albums and artists to users.
- Online Radio: Create an online radio where users can listen to personalized music playlists based on their listening habits.
I've been using last.fm's API for the past year to develop an online radio app for my users and I'm really happy with it! The API allowed me to easily create interactive music experiences, find related artists and develop personalized music playlists - all without having to spend time building the entire back-end infrastructure. I would definitely recommend last.fm's API to anyone looking to develop music applications!
Related Technologies
- Spotify API
- Apple Music API