Last.fm top fan highlighter

By Nick 1 Last update Jan 17, 2006 — Installed 2,939 times.


Script Summary: Puts a red star next to an artist if you're the top fan for that artist

Remotely hosted version

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at the moment it has the following features/limitations:

uses ajax to get the top-fans list

-this means it hits the last.fm servers quite a lot (once for each of the artists you've listened to)

it checks one artist at a time

-it highlights them in red as it's checking so you can see where in the list it is
-i did this both because i don't want to slam the last.fm servers and because multiple ajax requests in javascript at the same time is tricky/impossible

it only works on your overall chart list (i.e. when you click the 'More top artists...' link)

-i didn't want this to run every time you viewed your profile, it would make the bandwidth of your account huge
-this way it shows ALL the artists you are a top fan for, even if they are not in your top 50 artists

firefox 1.5

there are two versions of the script, one for firefox 1.0 / greasemonkey 0.5.3 and one for firefox 1.5 / greasemonkey 0.6.4.

new script [ff1.5/gm0.6.4]: http://afternight.org/nick/greasemonkey/last.fm.topartists.user.js

old script [ff1.0.x/gm0.5.3]: http://afternight.org/nick/greasemonkey/last.fm.topartists.ff1.0.user.js