Javascript code for retrieving recently played songs from Last.fm API. Original article: https://goo.gl/bCcEvN
$(document).ready(function() {
$.getJSON("http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=user.getRecentTracks&user=defsamm&api_key=5b801a66d1a34e73b6e563afc27ef06b&limit=2&format=json&callback=?", function(data) {
var html = ''; // we declare the variable that we'll be using to store our information
var counter = 1; // we declare a counter variable to use with the if statement in order to limit the result to 1
$.each(data.recenttracks.track, function(i, item) {
if(counter == 1) {
html += 'Currently listening to: <span><a href="' + item.url + '" target="_blank">' + item.name + '</a> - ' + item.artist['#text'] + '</span>';
} // close the if statement
counter++ // add 1 to the counter variable each time the each loop runs
}); // close each loop
$('.listening-to h5').append(html); // print the information to the document - here I look for the h5 tag inside the div with a class of 'listening-to' and use the jQuery append method to insert the information we've stored in the html variable inside the h5 tag.
}); // close JSON call
}); // close document ready function