Artist Discovery
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Recipe · 4 steps
Artist Discovery
with Last.fm
Turn an artist name into a rich profile of info, top tracks, and similar artists.
- Search the Last.fm catalog for artists matching the supplied name, returning matches sorted by relevance.
- Retrieve the full artist profile for the best matching artist, including stats, bio, and tags.
- Pull the artist's most popular tracks, ordered by listener play counts.
- Find artists most similar to the resolved artist, based on listening data.
What you'll need to have ready
- apiKey: Your Last.fm API key.
- artist: The artist name to search for (e.g. "Radiohead").
- limit: Max items per page for the top tracks and similar artists lists.
For your developer
Arazzo workflow lastfm:artist-discovery, 4 operations: artistSearch → artistGetInfo → artistGetTopTracks → artistGetSimilar. Specs on APIs.io.