PyLyrics

gets lyrics for song playing in spotify

how to use:

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spotify must be running and a song must be playing

run python pylyrics.py for CLI mode

OR

run python pylyricsgui.py for GUI mode

OR

for macOS:

set up an Automator app to run /path/to/pylyricsgui.py

OR

for windows:

download PyLyrics.exe from releases and run

how it works

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1. windows: get the title of the spotify window, which contains the song and artist

   macOS: use osascript to execute applescript that gets info for currently playing song

2. create a search query in the format: song + artist(replacing all spaces with '+')

3. plug in the query to genius search api url

4. find lyrics url from response

5. send get request to lyrics url

6. scrape lyrics from html

7. display the lyrics!

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