Posted on: September 15, 2005 in Technology
Audioscrobbler web services
As promised, Audioscrobbler has now released their web services API. The API consists of a slew of methods to slurp data out of last.fm, but nothing to add or modify content (although I’m not sure what one could really edit on last.fm anyway). It seems a bit strange to have an option to get a text file of comma separated values being returned, but I bet some people might find it easier to parse then the XML.
There are a few other strange items: For example if you go to:
http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/cbumelle/weeklyalbumchart.xml the ‘from’ and ‘to’ fields are identical; probably not the best range to choose. Its possible to change these by playing with the query string like so: http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/cbrumelle/weeklyalbumchart.xml?from=1&to=2
This is all un-documented of course, but hey, it’s beta! What do you expect? But all in all, it looks like fun to play with. I can’t wait to see how people will remix this!