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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].

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 67.9/100 · strong
Contract Quality 18.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.5 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 56/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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.

Scroll within the panel for all 9 ·

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.

ARAZZO

Last.fm Artist Discovery

Search for an artist by name, resolve full metadata, then surface their top tracks and similar artists.

ARAZZO

Last.fm Genre Artist Explorer

Take a genre tag's top artist, branch into similar artists, and pull that artist's top tracks.

ARAZZO

Last.fm Geo Artist Spotlight

Find the top artist in a country, resolve their full profile, and list their top albums.

ARAZZO

Last.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.

ARAZZO

Last.fm Now Playing Context

Read a user's most recent track, resolve its full info, and surface the community tags that describe it.

ARAZZO

Last.fm Tag To Track Deep Dive

Resolve a tag's metadata, pull its top tracks, and fetch full info for the leading track.

ARAZZO

Last.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.

ARAZZO

Last.fm User Taste Profile

Read a user's profile, find their top artist for a period, and surface that artist's top tracks.

ARAZZO

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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

2 plans

PLANS

Rate 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

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

Semantic 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

27 classes · 8 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral 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

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Last.fm API Rules

13 rules · 6 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON 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

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Last.fm Artist

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Last.fm Tag

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Last.fm Track

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Last.fm User

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON 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

11 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Lastfm Artist Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Lastfm Track Structure

12 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 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.

Security 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.

Lastfm Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Lastfm Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

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.

Lastfm Agentic Access

59 operations · 12 acting

59 operations · 12 acting

AGENTIC

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

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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