Getting Started
Anyone is free to use the Last.fm API. Here's what you need to get going:
The Last.fm API allows anyone to build their own programs using Last.fm data, whether they're on the web, the desktop or mobile devices. Find out more about how you can start exploring the social music playground or just browse the list of methods below.
Featured Applications
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Personal Tag Cloud

Generates a tag cloud of 50 recommended artists based on your overall top…
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Extra Stats

Last.fm Extra Stats is a windows program that calculates many cool stats using…
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Genre Finder

Shows what 'Percentage' of a certain tag/genre a user is.
API Methods
Album
Artist
- Artist.addTags
- Artist.getEvents
- Artist.getImages
- Artist.getInfo
- Artist.getPastEvents
- Artist.getPodcast
- Artist.getShouts
- Artist.getSimilar
- Artist.getTags
- Artist.getTopAlbums
- Artist.getTopFans
- Artist.getTopTags
- Artist.getTopTracks
- Artist.removeTag
- Artist.search
- Artist.share
- Artist.shout
Auth
Event
Geo
Group
- Group.getMembers
- Group.getWeeklyAlbumChart
- Group.getWeeklyArtistChart
- Group.getWeeklyChartList
- Group.getWeeklyTrackChart
Library
- Library.addAlbum
- Library.addArtist
- Library.addTrack
- Library.getAlbums
- Library.getArtists
- Library.getTracks
Playlist
Radio
Tag
- Tag.getSimilar
- Tag.getTopAlbums
- Tag.getTopArtists
- Tag.getTopTags
- Tag.getTopTracks
- Tag.getWeeklyArtistChart
- Tag.getWeeklyChartList
- Tag.search
Tasteometer
Track
- Track.addTags
- Track.ban
- Track.getInfo
- Track.getSimilar
- Track.getTags
- Track.getTopFans
- Track.getTopTags
- Track.love
- Track.removeTag
- Track.search
- Track.share
User
- User.getEvents
- User.getFriends
- User.getInfo
- User.getLovedTracks
- User.getNeighbours
- User.getPastEvents
- User.getPlaylists
- User.getRecentStations
- User.getRecentTracks
- User.getRecommendedArtists
- User.getRecommendedEvents
- User.getShouts
- User.getTopAlbums
- User.getTopArtists
- User.getTopTags
- User.getTopTracks
- User.getWeeklyAlbumChart
- User.getWeeklyArtistChart
- User.getWeeklyChartList
- User.getWeeklyTrackChart
- User.shout