A lightweight last.fm scraper. Provides access to last.fm's album, artist, track and search features through a simple, intuitive API. This module does not require an API key.

Installation

$ npm install scrapefm

Examples

var scrapefm = require('scrapefm');

scrapefm.search('ty segall', function (err, results) {
    if (!err) {
        results.forEach(function (result) {
            console.log(result.type + ': ' + result[result.type]);
        });
    }
});

// artist: Ty Segall
// artist: Ty Segall Band
// album: Melted
// album: Slaughterhouse
// ...

scrapefm.album('melted ty', function (err, album) {
    if (!err && album) {
        console.log(album.album + ' by ' + album.artist);
        album.tracks.forEach(function (track, i) {
            i++;
            console.log(i + '. ' + track.track + ' - ' + track.duration + 's');
        });
    }
});

// Melted by Ty Segall
// 1. Finger - 173s
// 2. Caesar - 183s
// ...

API

scrapefm.search(terms, [options], done)

Search last.fm website for an artist, tag, album or track.

terms is expected to be a string.

options is an optional object with the following properties:

{
    host: 'http://www.last.fm', // which base host to use for scraping
    needle: { } // options passed into each needle request
}

done returns an array of search results (in order of relevance).

scrapefm.artist(terms, [options], done)

Fetch various information about an artist.

terms is a string of the artist's name.

options is the same options described in .search.

done returns an object of the following:

{
    artist: String,
    description: String,
    listeners: Number,
    scrobbles: Number,
    tags: [ String, ... ],

    // the top <15 tracks
    tracks: [
        {
            track: String,
            listeners: Number
        },
        ...
    ],

    // the top <4 albums
    albums: [
        {
            album: String,
            listeners: Number,
            art: String
            tracks: Number
        },
        ...
    ],

    // the top <6 similar artists
    similar: [
        {
            artist: String,
            art: String
        },
        ...
    ]
}

scrapefm.album(terms, [options], done)

Fetch various information about a specific album.

terms can either be a string or an object. If terms is a string,it's searched and the first album found is used. If terms is an object, it should have the album and artist properties.

options is the same options described in .search.

done returns an object of the following:

{
    album: String,
    artist: String,
    description: String,
    released: Date,
    label: String,
    listeners: Number,
    scrobbles: Number,
    art: String, // album art URL
    tags: [ String, ... ],
    tracks: [
        {
            track: String,
            duration: Number, // seconds
            listeners: Number
        },
        ...
    ]
}

scrapefm.track(terms, [options], done)

Fetch information about a specific track.

terms can either be a string or an object. If terms is a string, it's searched and the first track is used. If terms is an object, it should have artist and track properties.

options is the same options described in .search.

done returns an object of the following:

{
    track: String,
    duration: Number,
    description: String,
    artist: String,
    album: String,
    listeners: Number,
    scrobbles: Number,
    art: String, // album art URL
    tags: [ String, ... ],
    similar: [
        {
            artist: String,
            track: String,
            duration: Number,
            listeners: Number
        },
        ...
    ]
}