[IDEA] Genius

[Stephanowicz]

What is the syntax of the search query?

Hi,

I tried several api-queries - it's not this easy to find a good & reliable one.
Finally I found genius-lyrics-api by farshed. It's using node.

I think it has everything of the possible queries available. 
It's a bit lazy - but this could also be because of the overloaded Genius server...

I created a php script and a node script for querying the actual song playing
In order to use it, You will need to create a free account on Genius. Then You need to create a new API-Client in order to get the API-Key.

PHP Code:

<?php

$ARTIST_=shell_exec('mpc --format %artist% | head -n 1');
$ARTIST_=str_replace("\n","",$ARTIST_);
$TITLE_=shell_exec('mpc --format %title% | head -n 1');
$TITLE_=str_replace("\n","",$TITLE_);

$ret = shell_exec("node /home/pi/node/geniuslyrics.js '".$ARTIST_."' '".$TITLE_."'");
print_r($ret); 


Code:

const { getLyrics, getSong  } = require('genius-lyrics-api');

if (process.argv.length==4) {

var songtitle = process.argv[3]
var songartist = process.argv[2]

const options = {
apiKey: '>>>>YOUR API KEY<<<<',
title: songtitle,
artist: songartist,
optimizeQuery: true
};

getLyrics(options).then((lyrics) => console.log(lyrics));

};

//getSong(options).then((song) =>
// console.log(`
// ${song.id}
// ${song.url}
// ${song.albumArt}
// ${song.lyrics}`)
//);

here's a post describing to query the API with python: Getting Song Lyrics from Genius’s API + Scraping | Big-Ish Data


As I mentioned elswhere in my X-Mas wishlist, it would be really great to have lyrics included!

Cheers, Stephan