lastfm_monitor

Powerful real-time tracker for Last.fm that brings your music data to life with automated Spotify playback, instant activity alerts and deep scrobble analytics.

🚀 Quick Install & Run

New to Python or unsure what is installed? Follow the Python install walkthrough first.

Install from PyPI:

pip install lastfm_monitor

Run the setup wizard:

lastfm_monitor --setup

The wizard asks for the target, the Last.fm API credentials and optional notifications. Review the settings before saving them. See Setup & First Run for how to get the Last.fm API key and shared secret and the required privacy settings.

For the manual single-file method, dependencies and upgrade commands, see Installation.

Features

🔍 Listening and Profile Tracking

• Listening activity: Track songs, active and inactive periods, pauses and resumes.
• Playback detail: Show listening duration, skipped tracks and an optional progress indicator.
• Profile changes: Track followers, followed accounts, About Me bio and display name.
• Activity gaps: Detect offline listening and estimate Spotify private mode, which is not always accurate.

📊 Playback and Insights

• Spotify playback: Follow the tracked user's songs, pauses and resumes in your local Spotify client.
• Session statistics: Summarize listening time, tracks, skips, repeats and pauses.
• Last.fm Wrapped: Generate top artist, track and album statistics from CSV history.
• Music and lyrics links: Open configurable searches from console output and email.

🔔 Notifications and History

• Event alerts: Configure email, Discord and ntfy notifications for listening and profile changes.
• CSV history: Save listened tracks with timestamps.
• Saved state: Retain activity, friend lists and tracked profile fields across restarts.

⚙️ Setup and Configuration

• Guided setup: Configure the monitor with --setup and check readiness with --doctor.
• Flexible settings: Use config files, dotenv files, environment variables and command-line options.
• Runtime controls: Adjust the running monitor through supported signals.

Common Commands

Use Quick Install & Run above for first-time setup. The table uses PyPI commands. For the manual script equivalents, see Run Individual Commands.

Replace the target placeholders with a Last.fm username. Monitoring requires the Last.fm API key and shared secret described in the setup guide.

The monitored account must expose the activity described in User Privacy Settings.

Running the tool with no arguments offers the wizard if you have not saved a user. If a user is already saved, it starts monitoring that user.

The tool runs until interrupted (Ctrl+C). Use tmux or screen for persistence and run multiple copies to monitor several users.

For credentials, saved users and notification setup, see the full Setup & First Run guide.

For the Spotify metadata backends, email and webhook setup, see Configuration. For notification choices, listing commands, automatic playback and output files, see Usage.

If a run fails, start with Doctor Preflight.

Documentation

Full documentation is available at misiektoja.github.io/lastfm_monitor:

Change Log

See RELEASE_NOTES.md for details.

Contributing

Bug reports, documentation fixes and code contributions are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the development setup, the checks CI enforces and what a change needs before it is merged. Participation is covered by the Code of Conduct.

Security

Report a suspected vulnerability privately through GitHub security advisories, never as a public issue. SECURITY.md covers the reporting process, the supported versions and the security posture of stored credentials and configuration loading.

Maintainers

• misiektoja (@misiektoja)

License

Licensed under GPLv3. See LICENSE. Dependency licenses are listed in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.

Support

Questions, bug reports and vulnerability reports each have a place, listed in SUPPORT.md.

If the project is useful to you, you can support its development through GitHub Sponsors or Buy Me a Coffee.