You probably noticed the new Last.fm design. One thing I really miss, the Friends who listen to XY widget.
So I wrote a browser extension for that.
It uses the official Last.fm API so it's quite fast (it depends on how many friends you have). But to save requests, caching is enabled by default. You can disable it or choose when the cache should expiry in settings (the cog icon).
By friends I mean people you follow. I just like the word friends more.
You can download the latest version from the Chrome Web Store.
You can download the latest version from the Mozilla Add-ons.
The extension is built with Webpack using Gulp.
yarn # or npm install
yarn global add gulp-cli # npm i -g gulp-cli
gulpIt worked fine back in the 2015 but now I had to use Node of version 9 to install Gulp without any issues.
Running gulp will create folder build/chrome (before Firefox began to support WebExtensions API, it also used to generate a bit different version for Firefox). You can load this extension in Chrome at chrome://extensions/ by turning Developer Mode on, clicking Load unpacked and selecting the build/chrome directory. Similarly in Firefox you can load the extension at about:debugging by clicking Load Temporary Add-on and selecting generated manifest.json also in the build/chrome directory.
Pull requests are welcome!
This is mostly for me because I will surely forget how to do it the next I'll want to update the extension.
Chrome is easy, you just zip the build/chrome folder and upload it to the Developer dashboard and that's it. For Firefox, you have to install their CLI tool (yarn global add web-ext) and then run web-ext build in the build/chrome directory. This will generate a zip file inside a newly created folder web-ext-artifacts. Then you upload the zip at Add-on Developer Hub. They also require you to upload the source code, so you zip the whole source code and upload that too. Don't forget to append notes about how to build the extension and you're done.