lastfm-cg 1.6.0

Generate covers collage from albums listened by a lastfm user.

lastfm_cg : lastfm collage generator

Generate covers collage from albums listened by a lastfm user.

This utility needs a valid config file with your lastfm API keys (get them at last.fm/api.) in ~/.config/lastfm_cg/config.ini (the config file will be created at first launch, you can also see config_sample.ini for an example). You can also use the --API_KEY and --API_SECRET argument to set your lastfm API key.

It also caches the image files downloaded thanks to the requests-cache library. If you don't want the script to create an sqlite file in your ~/.local/share/lastfm_cg/ directory, you will have to launch the script with the -d/--disable_cache flag.

A twitter bot and a mastodon bot are also available in the bot_lastfm_cg folder. You can see them in action on my own Twitter and Mastodon accounts.

Some systemd service are also available in the systemd-service directory to run the lastfm_cg script at a given time. You will have to change them to match your configuration, more specifically the WorkingDirectory and ExecStart directive.

Requirements

• pylast
• numpy
• pillow
• requests
• requests-cache
• tqdm

Installation

Classic installation :

pip install lastfm_cg

If you are an Archlinux user, you can install the AUR package lastfm_cg-git.

Run from source

First method (installing the lastfm_cg package)

git clone https://github.com/dbeley/lastfm_cg
cd lastfm_cg
python setup.py install
lastfm_cg -h

Second method (installing the lastfm_cg package with pipenv)

git clone https://github.com/dbeley/lastfm_cg
cd lastfm_cg
pipenv install '-e .'
pipenv run lastfm_cg -h

Usage

Show the help and the available options.

lastfm_cg -h

usage: lastfm_cg [-h] [--debug] [--timeframe TIMEFRAME] [--rows ROWS]
                 [--columns COLUMNS] [--username USERNAME] [-d] [--top100]
                 [--API_KEY API_KEY] [--API_SECRET API_SECRET]
                 [--output_filename OUTPUT_FILENAME]

Create lastfm album collage for one or several lastfm users.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --debug               Display debugging information
  --timeframe TIMEFRAME, -t TIMEFRAME
                        Timeframe (Accepted values : 7day, 1month, 3month,
                        6month, 12month, overall. Default : 7day).
  --rows ROWS, -r ROWS  Number of rows (Default : 5).
  --columns COLUMNS, -c COLUMNS
                        Number of columns (Default : number of rows).
  --username USERNAME, -u USERNAME
                        Usernames to extract, separated by comma.
  -d, --disable_cache   Disable the cache
  --top100              Create a top 100 image. Will override columns/rows.
  --API_KEY API_KEY     Lastfm API key (optional)
  --API_SECRET API_SECRET
                        Lastfm API secret (optional)
  --output_filename OUTPUT_FILENAME
                        Output filename (optional, example: output.png)

Generate a collage for the user USER of the size 5x5 for the last 7 days (default values).

lastfm_cg -u USER
lastfm_cg -u USER -t 7day -r 5

Generate a collage for the user USER of the size 10x8 for the last year.

lastfm_cg -u USER -t 12month -r 10 -c 8

Generate a top 100 collage for the user USER for all its listening history.

lastfm_cg -u USER --top100 -t overall

Generate collages for the users USER and USER2 of the size 3x30 for all their listening history.

lastfm_cg -u USER,USER2 -t overall -r 3 -c 30
lastfm_cg --username USER,USER2 --rows 3 --columns 30 --timeframe overall

Sample results

5 rows x 8 columns

top 100

Systemd service

You will have to change the command executed with the systemd service (ExecStart option) and the working directory (WorkingDirectory option).

cp systemd-service/* ~/.config/systemd/user/
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable --now lastfm_cg_weekly.timer