getFriends¶

Get a list of the user's friends (follow each other) on Last.fm.

No authentication required.

Parameters¶

Method	Type	Default	Description
`user`	string	`none`	The Last.fm username to fetch the friends of.
`recenttracks`	boolean	0	Whether or not to include information about friends' recent listening in the response.
`limit`	number	50	The number of results to fetch per page.
`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	1
api_key	YOUR_API_KEY
format	json

HTTP status: 200 OK

https://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=user.getFriends&user=aidan-&limit=1&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&&format=json

{
    "friends":{
        "user": [
            {
                "playlists": "0",
                "playcount": "4",
                "subscriber": "0",
                "name": "oldmaneatintwix",
                "country": "United Kingdom",
                "image": [
                    {
                        "size": "small",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/34s/1c3fd3c2548906f6ea0f2863718c2668.png"
                    },
                    {
                        "size": "medium",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/64s/1c3fd3c2548906f6ea0f2863718c2668.png"
                    },
                    {
                        "size": "large",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/174s/1c3fd3c2548906f6ea0f2863718c2668.png"
                    },
                    {
                        "size": "extralarge",
                        "#text": "https://lastfm.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/300x300/1c3fd3c2548906f6ea0f2863718c2668.png"
                    }
                ],
                "registered": {
                    "unixtime": "1603189685",
                    "#text": "2020-10-20 10:28"
                },
                "url": "https://www.last.fm/user/oldmaneatintwix",
                "realname": "Charlie Brown",
                "bootstrap": "0",
                "type": "user"
            }
        ],
        "@attr": {
            "page": "1",
            "total": "10",
            "user": "aidan-",
            "perPage": "1",
            "totalPages": "10"
        }
    }
}

Example response of non existing user

HTTP status: 404 NOT FOUND

https://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&method=User.getfriends&user=userthatdoesntexist&format=json

{
    "error": 6,
    "message": "User not found"
}

Example response of a user with no friends

HTTP status: 400 BAD REQUEST

https://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&method=User.getfriends&user=letmeridee&format=json

{
    "error": 6,
    "message": "no such page"
}