Last-Spot 🎵

Last-Spot is a Rust application that creates personalized Spotify playlists based on your Last.fm listening history. It analyzes your top artists, finds similar artists you might enjoy, and automatically creates a Spotify playlist with their top tracks you might not know! Built with the aid of CLAUDE! <3

Features ✨

• Analyzes your Last.fm listening history from the past 6 months
• Discovers new artists similar to your favorites
• Automatically creates a Spotify playlist
• Randomly selects recommendations for variety
• Opens the playlist in your browser when done

Prerequisites

Before running Last-Spot, you'll need:

1. A Last.fm API account:

   • Sign up at Last.fm API
   • Get your API key

2. A Spotify Developer account:

   • Go to Spotify Developer Dashboard
   • Create a new application
   • Get your Client ID and Client Secret
   • Add http://localhost:8888/callback to your Redirect URIs in the app settings

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/last-spot.git
cd last-spot

2. Create a .env file in the project root with your credentials:

LASTFM_API_KEY=your_lastfm_api_key
LASTFM_USERNAME=your_lastfm_username
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID=your_spotify_client_id
SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET=your_spotify_client_secret
SPOTIFY_USER_ID=your_spotify_username

3. Build the project:

cargo build --release

Usage

Run the program:

cargo run

The application will:

1. Fetch your top albums from Last.fm
2. Find similar artists
3. Open your browser for Spotify authorization
4. Create a new private playlist
5. Add discovered tracks to the playlist
6. Open the playlist in your browser

How ?

1. Last.fm Analysis:

   • Fetches your top albums from the last 6 months
   • Identifies unique artists from these albums

2. Discovery:

   • For each top artist, finds similar artists
   • Gets top albums from these similar artists
   • Randomly selects tracks to ensure variety from these albums

3. Spotify Integration:

   • Creates a new playlist with recommended tracks

Dependencies

[dependencies]
tokio = { version = "1.28", features = ["full"] }
reqwest = { version = "0.11", features = ["json"] }
serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
serde_json = "1.0"
dotenv = "0.15"
base64 = "0.21"
urlencoding = "2.1"
chrono = "0.4"
rand = "0.8"
url = "2.4"