Last.fm

Fetch data and create notes from your Last.fm listening history directly inside Obsidian.

This plugin lets you fetch:

Recent scrobbles
Top tracks, artists, and albums (for any Last.fm period)
Weekly charts (from → to weekly ranges via Last.fm’s API)
Album artwork (available for recent scrobbles and top albums)
Automatically generate Markdown notes into your chosen folder

📸 Preview

✨ Features

• Recent scrobbles
  • Most recent tracks you scrobbled (includes artwork of each track's album)
  • Select the number of tracks you want to pull from Last.fm (5, 10, 20, 50, 100)
• Top Tracks / Artists / Albums
  • Period-based (7day, 1month, 3month, 6month, 12month, overall)
  • Set a custom limit for how many results to fetch
• Weekly charts
  • Real chart-based weekly ranges from Last.fm (up to 20 years back !)
• Automatic note creation
  • Create notes to persist data in your vault
  • Choose a folder in which notes will be created
• Album art included when available (recent plays & top albums only)
• Clean UI modal with tabs
• Ribbon icon for quick access
• Fully local — only Last.fm API requests are made

🔧 Setup

1. Get a Last.fm API key
   https://www.last.fm/api/account/create

2. In Obsidian:

   • Open Settings → Community Plugins
   • Enable Third-party plugins
   • Install this plugin manually (see below)
   • Enter your API key, username, and output folder

📦 Manual Installation

1. Clone this repo

2. Make sure your NodeJS is at least v16 (node --version)

3. npm i to install dependencies

4. npm run build to compile the code

5. Copy main.js, styles.css, manifest.json to your vault VaultFolder/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-lastfm-plugin/

6. Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin.

🧾 License

MIT

🙏 Credits

Built by Gorka Gómez
Uses the Last.fm public API.

⭐ Support

If you enjoy this plugin, consider starring the repo on GitHub!