Last.fm
Last.fm is the long-running music recommendation, scrobbling, and music-data service operated by CBS Interactive. Its Web Services 2.0 API (the AudioScrobbler API at ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/) exposes catalog data (artists, albums, tracks, tags), charts, geo-listening data, user listening history (recent tracks, top tracks/albums/artists, weekly charts), and the Scrobbling 2.0 write surface (track.scrobble, track.updateNowPlaying, track.love). Every operation is dispatched through a single endpoint via the `method` parameter (e.g. `method=user.getRecentTracks`). Authentication uses an API key for reads and a signed (`api_sig`) session-key flow for writes. The API is free for non-commercial use; commercial use requires a separate agreement via [email protected].
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Last.fm the way a machine reads it — 42 machine-readable artifacts across 9 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Last.fm scores 67.9/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 56/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
How we profile Last.fm
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Last.fm. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 9
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Last.fm Album API
Album metadata, tagging, and search.
Last.fm Artist API
Artist metadata, similarity, tagging, top albums/tracks, and search.
Last.fm Auth API
Token, session, and mobile session acquisition for authenticated calls.
Last.fm Chart API
Global top artists, tags, and tracks.
Last.fm Geo API
Country-level top artists and tracks.
Last.fm Library API
A user's scrobbled artist library.
Last.fm Tag API
Tag metadata, similar tags, top albums/artists/tracks, and chart history.
Last.fm Track API
Track metadata, scrobbling, love/unlove, tagging, search.
Last.fm User API
User profile, friends, listening history, top entities, and weekly charts.
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Postman Collections 1
A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Arazzo Workflows 10
Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
Last.fm Album Genre Profile
Search for an album, resolve its full info and tracklist, then surface the community tags that define its genre.
ARAZZOLast.fm Artist Discovery
Search for an artist by name, resolve full metadata, then surface their top tracks and similar artists.
ARAZZOLast.fm Genre Artist Explorer
Take a genre tag's top artist, branch into similar artists, and pull that artist's top tracks.
ARAZZOLast.fm Geo Artist Spotlight
Find the top artist in a country, resolve their full profile, and list their top albums.
ARAZZOLast.fm Loved Tracks Insight
Read a user's loved tracks, resolve the latest one's full info, and surface the community tags that describe it.
ARAZZOLast.fm Now Playing Context
Read a user's most recent track, resolve its full info, and surface the community tags that describe it.
ARAZZOLast.fm Tag To Track Deep Dive
Resolve a tag's metadata, pull its top tracks, and fetch full info for the leading track.
ARAZZOLast.fm Track Radio Seed
Search for a track, resolve its full info, and build a similar-tracks radio seed — branching when no match is found.
ARAZZOLast.fm User Taste Profile
Read a user's profile, find their top artist for a period, and surface that artist's top tracks.
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Lastfm Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Lastfm Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Lastfm Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Last.fm API Rules
SPECTRALLast.fm API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 5
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Last.fm Album
JSON SCHEMALast.fm Artist
JSON SCHEMALast.fm Tag
JSON SCHEMALast.fm Track
JSON SCHEMALast.fm User
JSON SCHEMAJSON Structure 3
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Lastfm Album Structure
JSON STRUCTURELastfm Artist Structure
JSON STRUCTURELastfm Track Structure
JSON STRUCTUREExamples 6
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Lastfm Album Getinfo Example
EXAMPLELastfm Track Getinfo Example
EXAMPLESecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Last.fm — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 14
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 18
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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