Lyrics-Scraper

Just a simple web scraper utilizing the Genius API to extract lyrics from the web. I use this in my various other fun side projects involving music!

Genius has recently made changes to the theme of their website, so this project no longer parses their HTML and XML documents correctly. It has changed a few times in the last few weeks, so I am waiting until Genius decides on a new theme to keep, or looking for another lyrics API to utilize.

How to Use:

1. First, you must obtain an API token from Genius, directions on how to do so are clearly labeled on their website.
2. Next, prepare your Python environment! You will need to pip install these modules, which you can do easily with the command pip install -r requirements.txt:

• requests
• bs4 from BeautifulSoup
• os and re come with Python by default, so no need to pip install, just import.
• pytest if you are running any tests

3. Create a secrets.py file (which should be placed in your .gitignore) and store your Genius API token as follows: GENIUS_API_TOKEN = '<your API token>'
4. Simply fill in your artist and number of songs to be scraped for lyrics, for example:

if __name__ == '__main__':
    write_lyrics_to_file('My Chemical Romance', 100)

5. Enjoy your lyrics! They will be printed to a txt file with the artist name as it's title.