Last.fm Integration about geemusic HOT 11 CLOSED

@fergyfresh That library isn't lightweight enough for what I want. The last.fm API is dead simple (a single POST request will scrobble a song), so writing my own shouldn't be very hard.

@Danondso I don't think a skill can get access to the APIs needed to acquire the currently playing song, but I'll look into it and see if it could be done. That would definitely be optimal, and if it is possible, I'll definitely build a skill for it.

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This is going to sound a bit naïve, but could we trigger the 'scrobbling' outside of this skill and do it based on what is currently playing on Alexa so that way the last.fm skill can integrate with the Spotify skill?

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@fergyfresh IFTTT has the ability to fire a trigger whenever a new song is played, and one could build a Maker endpoint that would then log the song in Last.fm for you (one would have to create the logging code yourself as Last.fm isn't supported by IFTTT). However, the IFTTT trigger only fires when an official music service is being used such as Spotify, whereas GeeMusic wouldn't be able to access this functionality. I suppose I can write a general purpose python scrobbler library, and then it can be included in this code base and also used with IFTTT or another service to scrobble Spotify.

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I've gone ahead and started the code in a separate GitHub repo, and will open a PR once it is complete. I'll leave this issue open for now, in case someone else is interested in chiming in.

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https://github.com/pylast/pylast would that do what you want? The documentation is kind of lacking, but I just found it and wanted to push out the info to you before you got too far down the rabbit hole.

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Hmm what about a standalone scrobbling skill for Alexa? No clue about the work involved with that but it would be nice to have a scrobbler independent of service.

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Count me in, also using lastFM on all of my devices, just missing the Echo now !

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I likely would have finished the entire system by now if the Last.fm API dashboard wasn't down. No matter what I do (using different devices, different URL endpoints) it always returns a 500 error when I try to acces the place where my API keys are controlled from. I have the code fully working except for this, and will update you all when it resolved. I haven't been able to get a response from support.

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The API wrapper should be complete now and seems to function correctly. All the code can be accessed, tested, and contributed to at https://github.com/huberf/lastfm-scrobbler

Now, I just need to work on correctly integrating this into the GeeMusic repo.

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I now have Last.fm support fully working. You can view it in this PR or at my cloned repo. If you have any questions about setup, or recommendations for improving the setup directions, let me know and I will assist as quickly as possible.

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#54 is merged 👍 🎉

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