Now pulling in Last.fm API and displaying recent tracks for a user.

.jshintrc

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+{
+  "node": true,
+  "browser": true,
+  "esnext": true,
+  "bitwise": false,
+  "curly": false,
+  "eqeqeq": true,
+  "eqnull": true,
+  "immed": true,
+  "latedef": true,
+  "newcap": true,
+  "noarg": true,
+  "strict": false,
+  "trailing": true,
+  "smarttabs": true,
+  "undef": false
+}

.meteor/packages

@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@
 # but you can also edit it by hand.
 
 standard-app-packages
-insecure
 preserve-inputs
+http

client/main.html

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
     </div>
   </header>
   <div id="main" class="row-fluid">
-    {{> songsList}}
+    {{> hello}}
   </div>
   </div>
 </body>

client/views/hello.html

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+<template name="hello">
+  <h3>Meteor: Last.FM check</h3>
+  <input type="text" id="userName" value="{{userName}}"></input>
+  <input type="button" value="Fetch" id="fetchButton" />
+
+<ul>
+  {{#each recentTracks}}
+    <li>{{name}}, {{artist.text}}</li>
+  {{/each}}
+</ul>
+</template>

client/views/hello.js

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+var userName = "Pxl_Buzzard";
+
+Template.hello.events({
+    'click #fetchButton': function (e) {
+        e.preventDefault();
+        console.log("Recent tracks from last.fm!");
+        $('#fetchButton').attr('disabled', 'true').val('loading...');
+        userName = $('#userName').val();
+        Meteor.call('fetchFromService', userName, function (err, respJson) {
+            if (err) {
+                window.alert("Error: " + err.reason);
+                console.log("error occured on receiving data on server. ", err);
+            } else if(respJson) {
+                console.log("respJson: ", respJson);
+                //window.alert(respJson.length + ' tracks received.');
+                Session.set("recentTracks", respJson);
+            }
+            $('#fetchButton').removeAttr('disabled').val('Fetch');
+        });
+    }
+});
+
+Template.hello.recentTracks = function () {
+    return Session.get("recentTracks") || [];
+};
+
+Template.hello.userName = function() {
+    return userName;
+};

collections/songs.js

@@ -1 +1,26 @@
 Songs = new Meteor.Collection('songs');
+
+Meteor.methods({
+	fetchFromService: function(userName) {
+		var url = "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=user.getrecenttracks&user="+userName+"&api_key="+Meteor.settings.lastfm_apikey+"&format=json";
+
+		var result = HTTP.get(url, {timeout:30000});
+		if(result.statusCode === 200) {
+			var respJson = JSON.parse(result.content);
+			respJson = respJson.recenttracks.track;
+
+			// clean last fm json
+			for(var i = 0; i < respJson.length; ++i) {
+				respJson[i].artist.text = respJson[i].artist['#text'];
+				delete respJson[i].artist['#text'];
+			}
+
+			console.log("response received.");
+			return respJson;
+		} else {
+			console.log("Response issue: ", result.statusCode);
+			var errorJson = JSON.parse(result.content);
+			throw new Meteor.Error(result.statusCode, errorJson.error);
+		}
+	}
+});