Scraping song lyrics from Genius.com

Setup

This repository is intended to provide an easy interface for programatically accessing the song information stored on Genius.com. Check out my blog post for a more thorough description of the package and its usage.

To use the Genius API you'll need to sign up for a (free) client that authorizes you to access their API. You'll need to supply your client_access_token from Genius when using this module. See Usage below for an example.

Installation

LyricsGenius requires Python 3.

The easiest way to start using this package is to install it via PyPI using pip:

$pip install lyricsgenius

If you'd prefer to clone the repository and install it yourself, follow these steps:

1. Clone this repo: $git clone https://github.com/johnwmillr/LyricsGenius.git
2. Enter the cloned directory: $cd LyricsGenius
3. Install using pip: $pip install .

Usage

>>> import lyricsgenius as genius
>>> api = genius.Genius('my_client_access_token_here')
>>> artist = api.search_artist('Andy Shauf', max_songs=3)
Searching for Andy Shauf...

Song 1: "Alexander All Alone"
Song 2: "Begin Again"
Song 3: "Comfortable With Silence"

Reached user-specified song limit (3).
Found 3 songs.

Done.
>>> print(artist)
Andy Shauf, 3 songs
>>> song = api.search_song('To You',artist.name)
Searching for "To You" by Andy Shauf...
Done.
>>> print(song)
"To You" by Andy Shauf:
    Jeremy can we talk a minute
    I've got some things that I need to
    Get off of my chestI know that we h...
>>> artist.add_song(song)
>>> print(artist)
Andy Shauf, 4 songs
>>> artist.save_lyrics() # Saves artist's lyrics to a JSON file

You can also call the package from the command line. When ran from the command line, the package expects to find an environment variable with your Genius client access token.

$export GENIUS_CLIENT_ACCESS_TOKEN="my_client_access_token_here"
$python3 -m lyricsgenius --search-song 'Begin Again' 'Andy Shauf'
$python3 -m lyricsgenius --search-artist 'Lupe Fiasco' 3

Example projects

• Textual analysis of popular country music
• What makes some blink-182 songs more popular than others?
• Words per song for rap, rock, and country music

I'd love to have more examples to list here! Let me know if you've made use of this wrapper for one of your own projects, and I'll list it here.

Contributing

Please contribute! I'd love to have collaborators on this project. If you want to add features, suggest improvements, or have other comments, just make a pull request or raise an issue.