Fetch album or artist cover art ➔ "The Beatles" → http://path/to/beatles.jpg

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Important

This library is feature-complete and only receives bug-fix updates. Feature requests still welcome — please open an issue.

Note

Last.fm cannabilized their own API and broke many applications, including this one. album-art now uses Spotify for image data. The public API is fully backwards-compatible.

Features

• Use anywhere, browser or Node (UMD bundle — browser support)
• Works in React + Next.js, client and server, via cross-fetch
• Promise and callback API
• Fetch images for albums or artists
• Multiple size options (small · medium · large)
• Powered by Spotify's catalog

Install

npm install album-art

In the browser:

<!-- albumArt as a window global -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/album-art"></script>

Also available via JSDelivr.

Usage

const albumArt = require("album-art");

albumArt("Rush").then(console.log);
//=> http://path/to/rush.jpg

Callback form

albumArt("Rush", (error, response) => {
  console.log(response);
  //=> http://path/to/rush.jpg
});

With album and size options

albumArt("Rush", { album: "2112", size: "small" }).then(console.log);
//=> http://path/to/rush_2112_small.jpg

Tip

Try it live without installing — open in RunKit (here's an example output).

API

albumArt(artist [, options] [, callback])

Accepts an artist string to search for. Returns a Promise that resolves to a URL string.

Argument	Type	Required	Description
artist	string	✅	Artist to search for
options.album	string		Album to search for
options.size	"small" | "medium" | "large"		Requested image size
callback	(err, response) => void		Optional Node-style callback

CLI

Install globally to use from the shell:

npm install --global album-art

album-art --help
#  Usage
#    $ album-art artist [album] [size]
#
#  Example
#    $ album-art 'The Beatles' --album 'Abbey Road' --size 'large'
#    http://path/to/beatles/abbey_road_large.jpg

Related

Part of a small family of media-data utilities:

• movie-info — Get info, images, and ratings about a movie.
• movie-trailer — Find the trailer for a movie.
• movie-art — Get the poster art for a movie.

Acknowledgments

• Spotify Web API — image data (subject to the Spotify API Terms).
• The original Last.fm API — RIP, you were the source for the first three major versions of this library.

License

MIT © Lacy Morrow

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