lyric-fetch-mcp

A small MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that fetches song lyrics and artist/album song lists using the Genius API via lyricsgenius and exposes them as FastMCP tools.

Overview ✅

• Purpose: Provide simple, reusable tools for retrieving song lyrics and lists of songs by artist/album for LLMs or other tooling that can call MCP tools.
• Tools exposed: get_song_lyrics(song_title, artist_name), get_artist_songs(artist_name, max_songs=5), get_album_songs(album_title, artist_name)
• Server framework: Uses fastmcp to register the tools and run the MCP server.

Installation (after publishing to uv) 🔧

Once you publish this package to a registry that uv can reach (e.g., PyPI or a private index), users can install and run it locally with uv:

• Install the published package:

  • uv add lyric-fetch-mcp

• Run the installed tool directly (ephemeral environment):

  • GENIUS_ACCESS_TOKEN="<your_token>" uvx lyric-fetch-mcp

• Or add it as a dependency to your uv project and run:

  • uv add lyric-fetch-mcp
  • uv run -- lyric-fetch-mcp

Note: uvx runs a tool in an ephemeral environment created by uv (similar to pipx).

Running locally (developer)

• One-off run with an env var:

  • GENIUS_ACCESS_TOKEN="your_token_here" python -m lyric_fetch_mcp.server

• Install locally for development and run the script:

  • python -m pip install -e .
  • lyric-fetch-mcp (after install)

Environment

• Requires a valid GENIUS_ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable.
• For production/CI, store the token in your CI/host secret manager (GitHub Secrets, Docker secrets, etc.).

CLI examples

• Fetch lyrics quickly from the shell (one-line):

  • GENIUS_ACCESS_TOKEN="your_token" python -c 'from lyric_fetch_mcp.server import get_song_lyrics; print(get_song_lyrics("Sofia","Clairo"))'

Contributing & Publishing

• The project uses uv_build as the PEP 517 backend — build with uv build and publish with uv publish.
• Please follow the repository's contribution guidelines and add tests for any new behavior.

License

• MIT — see LICENSE for details.