Scrobbler2¶ ↑

Scrobbler2 is a wrapper for the Last.fm web services (www.last.fm/api), inspired by Jnunemaker’s Original Scrobbler Gem (github.com/jnunemaker/scrobbler).

Installation¶ ↑

Install via ruby-gems

sudo gem install gingerhendrix-scrobbler2 --source http://gems.github.com

Requirements¶ ↑

Scrobbler2 requires

• HTTParty (github.com/jnunemaker/httparty)

• ActiveSupport (rubyforge.org/projects/activesupport/).

Usage¶ ↑

API Key¶ ↑

All last.fm requests require an API Key. Register for an API key at www.last.fm/api

Scrobbler2::Base.api_key = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456"

Authentication¶ ↑

Some requests (eg. write requests) require authentication. Authenticated request require an api secret (provided with your api key) and a session key.

Scrobbler2::Base.api_secret = "9876543210zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfe"
Scrobbler2::Base.session_key = "qwertyuioplkjhgfdsamnbvcxz"

Obtaining a session key¶ ↑

scrobbler2 currently supports last.fm’s desktop authentication protocol. In this process

1. The app requests a authentication token

2. The app sends the user to a last.fm authentication page

3. The user agrees to allow the the app acess to their data.

4. The app requests a session key.

5. The app makes an authenticated request with the session key.

auth = Scrobbler2::Auth.new
token = auth.token
puts "Auth Token #{token} \n" 
token.should_not be_nil
puts "Now go to #{auth.url} and authorise\n"

gets #Wait for enter

session = auth.session
puts "Session: #{session.inspect} \n"
session.should be_kind_of(Hash)
session['key'].should_not be_nil  

Scrobbler2::Base.session_key = session['key']
user = Scrobbler2::User.new(username)
user.info

Users¶ ↑

username = 'gingerhendrix'
user = Scrobbler2::User.new(username)

puts "#{username}'s Recent Tracks"
puts "=" * (username.length + 16)
user.recent_tracks["track"].each { |t| puts t["name"] }

puts
puts

puts "#{username}'s Top Tracks"
puts "=" * (username.length + 13)
user.top_tracks["track"].each { |t| puts "(#{t["playcount"]} plays) #{t["name"]}" }

Albums¶ ↑

album = Scrobbler2::Album.new('Carrie Underwood', 'Some Hearts')

puts "Album: #{album.info["name"]}"
puts "Artist: #{album.info["artist"]}"
puts "Listeners: #{album.info["listeners"]}"
puts "URL: #{album.info["url"]}"
puts "Release Date: #{album.info["releasedate"]}"

puts
puts

puts "Album Tags"
longest_tag_name = album.info["toptags"]["tag"].collect {|t| t["name"] }.sort {|x, y| y.length <=> x.length }.first.length
puts "=" * longest_tag_name
album.info["toptags"]["tag"].each { |t| puts t["name"] }

Artists¶ ↑

artist = Scrobbler2::Artist.new('Carrie Underwood')

puts 'Top Tracks'
puts "=" * 10
artist.top_tracks["track"].each { |t| puts "(#{t["playcount"]} plays) #{t["name"]}" }

puts

puts 'Similar Artists'
puts "=" * 15
artist.info["similar"]["artist"].each { |a| puts "#{a["name"]}" }

Tags ¶ ↑

tag = Scrobbler2::Tag.new('country')

puts 'Top Albums'
tag.top_albums["album"].each { |a| puts "(#{a["tagcount"]} tags) '#{a["name"]}' by #{a["artist"]["name"]}" }

puts

puts 'Top Tracks'
tag.top_tracks.each { |t| puts "(#{t["tagcount"]} tags) '#{t["name"]}' by #{t["artist"]["name"]}" }

Tracks¶ ↑

track = Scrobbler2::Track.new('Carrie Underwood', 'Before He Cheats')
puts 'Fans'
puts "=" * 4
puts track.info["listeners"]

Development¶ ↑

Scrobbler2 is still in development. If you want to help out please feel free to fork the project on github (github.com/gingerhendrix/scrobbler2).

Build and install¶ ↑

The scrobbler2 gem can be built and installed via rake.

rake build    # builds the gem (in pkg/)
rake install  # builds and installs the gem (using sudo gem install)

Tests¶ ↑

Scrobbler2 has unit and acceptance tests written using RSpec. The tests can be run using rake.

rake test:unit        # runs the unit tests
rake test:acceptance  # runs the acceptance tests

The acceptance tests run against the live last.fm api. You will need to set the api_key and authentication parameters in test/acceptance/test_helper.rb before running these tests. You can obtain a session key by running the auth_test, this test is not invoked with the rest of the acceptance suite.

ruby test/acceptance/auth/auth_test.rb

Internals¶ ↑

Scrobbler2 api methods use a simple set of macros to implement the api. All the hard work goes on in Scrobbler2::Base.

TODO¶ ↑

• Write requests.

• Submissions

• Radio API