R Observatory: Metrics for scrobbler version 1.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

scrobbler

1.0.3Package record

Download 'Scrobbles' from 'Last.fm'

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

41.7%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Conor NeilsonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

'Last.fm'https://www.last.fm is a music platform focussed on building a detailed profile of a users listening habits. It does this by 'scrobbling' (recording) every track you listen to on other platforms ('spotify', 'youtube', 'soundcloud' etc) and transferring them to your 'Last.fm' database. This allows 'Last.fm' to act as a complete record of your entire listening history. 'scrobbler' provides helper functions to download and analyse your listening history in R.

Changes in 1.0.3

Fixed a longstanding (sorry!) issue where download_scrobbles would fail due to differing numbers of columns. Issues is fixed and code is made more robust overall (by explicitly selecting needed columns rather than dropping unneeded ones)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("scrobbler", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("condwanaland/scrobbler")

Development version from condwanaland/scrobbler. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-scrobbler

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-scrobbler

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-scrobbler

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Conor Neilson <condwanaland@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Conor",
                    family = "Neilson",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "condwanaland@gmail.com")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.3Citation fileNo

Help pages: 4
Examples that run: 0%4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,370 · ~7/day · ~213/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21830 days

65890 days

2.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on68 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

condwanaland/scrobbler ↗Account: condwanaland

5Stars

0Forks

5Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

152Commits

1Commit identities

152 commits · Last activity 2023-10-22 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.0.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.0.3 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 59
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2024-08-19 · 42026-09-14 · 5

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/condwanaland/scrobbler on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-10-22

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing scrobbler adds 8 packages (6 with compiled code, 3.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

httr jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Conor Neilson

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019)

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.3Latest
record
2023-10-15 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.2
record
2021-08-15 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.1
record
2021-01-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
check_py_script, fetch_tracks, find_py_script, install_scrobble_script, py_path, py_version

added 2 exports
get_last_timestamp, get_lastfm_credentials
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.15
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2020-02-24 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
convert, read_scrobbles

added 1 export
update_scrobbles
0.2.12
record
2019-10-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
download_scrobbles
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.0
record
2019-01-08
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-01-08
Total releases: 6 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 22 KB

Cite

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citation("scrobbler")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for scrobbler version 1.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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