Scrobble tracks to Last.fm using track.scrobble with proper API method signature (api_sig) authentication
domain: last.fm · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Verified steps
Register an API application on Last.fm to get an API key and shared secret
Obtain a session key by completing Last.fm's desktop auth flow (get an auth token, have the user authorize it in a browser, then exchange the token for a session key)
For each scrobble call, build a plain-text signature: concatenate every request parameter (excluding `format`) as `key` + `value` pairs sorted alphabetically by key, append your shared secret at the end with no key name, then MD5-hash the resulting string to produce `api_sig`
Send a `POST` to the Last.fm API root with `method=track.scrobble`, the required array-style parameters `artist[i]`, `track[i]`, `timestamp[i]` (Unix time the track started playing) for each scrobble, plus your `api_key`, session key, and computed `api_sig`
Batch up to the documented per-call maximum (50 scrobbles) rather than issuing one request per track when backfilling history
Only scrobble a track once the user has played at least half of it or 4 minutes, whichever is shorter, per Last.fm's scrobbling guidelines
Known gotchas
The `api_sig` must be computed over every parameter except `format`, sorted alphabetically, with the secret appended unlabeled — omitting a parameter or using the wrong sort order silently produces an invalid signature (usually a generic authentication error)
track.scrobble is a write method and must be called via POST with parameters in the body, not as a GET query string
Session keys obtained via the desktop auth flow do not expire the way OAuth access tokens typically do, but they are tied to the exact API key/secret pair used to generate them — rotating your app's secret invalidates existing session keys
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