I was wondering if anyone could give any insight on a way that I should get artist images, since last.fm API doesn't provide them (it just returns a gray star icon). I've tried the like one stackoverflow post I could find on this but the answer isn't very helpful since not all urls are wikimedia commons image urls.
#How to get artist image with last.fm API
violet peak
exotic dune
It's not possible, Last.fm removed artist image access a while ago due to copyright reasons
we use Spotify images
violet peak
ah, so should i use the mbid provided in the response from last.fm api to get the url to the artist's spotify from musicbrainz and then use spotify api to get the image?
exotic dune
Last.fm mbids are unreliable
you can just get the artist directly from Spotify using the name
no need to go through musicbrainz
violet peak
ok, i'll look into spotify's api, thanks for the help
exotic dune
np
if you have future questions about the lastfm api u can probably ask better in discord.gg/lastfm
the #help-api-tools channel also has other devs