Question

I use pylast to get information from Last.fm API.

When I use the code below:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import pylast

API_KEY = "############################"
API_SECRET = "##############################"

###### In order to perform a write operation you need to authenticate yourself
username = "########"
password_hash = pylast.md5("###########")
network = pylast.LastFMNetwork(api_key = API_KEY, api_secret = API_SECRET, username =         username, password_hash = password_hash)

##          _________INIT__________
COUNTRY = "United Kingdom"

#---------------------- Get Geo Country --------------------
geo_country = network.get_country(COUNTRY)
print "The country we are digging is", geo_country

#----------------------  Get artist --------------------
top_artists_of_country = geo_country.get_top_artists(limit = 1000)
top_artists_of_country_file = open('test_artist_number.txt', 'w+')
print >> top_artists_of_country_file, top_artists_of_country
top_artists_of_country_file.close()

I found that I cannot get, for instance, 1000 records when I call

 geo_country.get_top_artists(limit = 1000)

I just want to know, is this limitation caused by Last.fm’s API setings or by pylast?

Any help would be great:)

Answer 1

It is a limitation of Last.fm.