getArtists

A paginated list of all the artists in a user's library, with play counts and tag counts.

No authentication required.

Parameters¶

Method	Type	Default	Description
`user`	string	`none`	The user whose library you want to fetch.
`limit`	number	50	The number of results to fetch per page. Maximum 2000.
`page`	number	1	The page number to fetch.
`api_key`	key	`none`	A Last.fm API key.

Responses¶

Errors:

6 : Invalid parameters - Your request was either missing a required parameter, the parameter was not found, or had 0 results
8 : Operation failed - Something else went wrong
9 : Invalid session key - Please re-authenticate
10 : Invalid API key - You must be granted a valid key by last.fm
11 : Service Offline - This service is temporarily offline. Try again later.
13 : Invalid method signature supplied
16 : There was a temporary error processing your request. Please try again
26 : Suspended API key - Access for your account has been suspended, please contact Last.fm
29 : Rate limit exceeded - Your IP has made too many requests in a short period

Examples¶

Example response

Parameter	Value
user	aidan-
limit	2
api_key	YOUR_API_KEY
format	json

HTTP status: 200 OK

https://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=library.getArtists&user=aidan-&limit=2&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&format=json

{
    "artists": {
        "artist": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.last.fm/music/Queen",
            "mbid": "5eecaf18-02ec-47af-a4f2-7831db373419",
            "tagcount": "0",
            "playcount": "1511",
            "streamable": "0",
            "name": "Queen",
            "image": [
            {
                "size": "small",
                "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/34s/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
            },
            {
                "size": "medium",
                "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/64s/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
            },
            {
                "size": "large",
                "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/174s/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
            },
            {
                "size": "extralarge",
                "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/300x300/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
            },
            {
                "size": "mega",
                "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/300x300/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
            }
            ]
        },
        {
            "url": "https://www.last.fm/music/Videoclub",
            "mbid": "f4903035-e9cd-4b7f-b462-0447b0cd490a",
            "tagcount": "0",
            "playcount": "1123",
            "streamable": "0",
            "name": "Videoclub",
            "image": [
            {
                "size": "small",
                "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/34s/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
            },
            {
                "size": "medium",
                "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/64s/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
            },
            {
                "size": "large",
                "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/174s/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
            },
            {
                "size": "extralarge",
                "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/300x300/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
            },
            {
                "size": "mega",
                "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/300x300/2a96cbd8b46e442fc41c2b86b821562f.png"
            }
            ]
        }
        ],
        "@attr": {
        "page": "1",
        "total": "1931",
        "user": "aidan-",
        "perPage": "2",
        "totalPages": "966"
        }
    }
}

Warning

To use parameters: from and to, you must declare both of them otherwise it will be treated with no start or end date