Now Playing

Unified Metadata

On Air

GET https://data.bff.fm/api/data/onair/now.json

An endpoint which will return what's currently playing on BFF.fm at the finest fidelity available: the track, or current playing show.

Query Parameters

Name	Type	Description
app_id	String	You may include this parameter to identify your app in our stats, so that we can understand who's building cool stuff for BFF.fm and feature you!

200: OK

Example Track response

{
   title: I NEED YOU TO (BREONNA TAYLOR)
   attribution: Tobe Nwigwe
   collection: THE PANDEMIC PROJECT
   licensor: Self Released
   image: https://a.bff.fm/…/album.jpg
   url: https://bff.fm/broadcasts/234345324
   type: track
}

Example Show response

{
   title: No Magic
   attribution: Ben Ward
   collection: BFF.fm
   licensor: BFF.fm
   image: https://a.bff.fm/…/logo.jpg
   url: https://bff.fm/shows/nomagic
   type: show
}

Track Metadata

Detailed Metadata

GET https://data.bff.fm/api/data/tracks/detail.text

What's currently playing on the BFF.fm stream.

Query Parameters

Name	Type	Description
app_id	string	You may include this parameter to identify your app in our stats, so that we can understand who's building cool stuff for BFF.fm and feature you!

200 Cake successfully retrieved.

Title: There Goes The Fear
Artist: Doves
Album: The Last Broadcast
Label: Heavenly
Artwork: https://a.bff.fm/image/original/trs2.jpg

See Also: Audio Hijack Pro's “Now Playing.txt” documentation.

One-Line Summary

GET https://data.bff.fm/api/data/tracks/now.text

A single-line summary of what's playing on BFF.fm. Track Name followed by Artist, separated by -.

Query Parameters

Name	Type	Description
app_id	string	You may include this parameter to identify your app in our stats, so that we can understand who's building cool stuff for BFF.fm and feature you!

200

Because It's Not Love (But It's Still A Feeling) - The Pipettes

JSON structured Detailed Metadata

GET https://data.bff.fm/api/data/tracks/now.json

The current artist, track, album and record label being played on BFF.fm

Query Parameters

Name	Type	Description
app_id	String	You may include this parameter to identify your app in our stats, so that we can understand who's building cool stuff for BFF.fm and feature you!