pyKaraoke - Use the musixmatch API to transform songs into Google Text-to-Speech

Getting Started with karegoogle

Get a Developer Account on MusixMatch

https://developer.musixmatch.com/

Get an API Key

Installing the bot

To install the bot there are a few simple steps:

Setup a virtual environment

Ubuntu Linux

The following instructions are based on Windows WSL2 and Ubuntu however any flavour of Linux will work with possibly slightly different commands.

Confirm Python 3 is installed

$ python3 -V
Python 3.9.10

Create and activate a virtual environment

$ sudo apt install python3-venv
$ python3 -m venv karaoke
$ source karaoke/bin/activate
(karaoke)$

Install the bot

(message_room)$pip install pykaraoke

Windows

Confirm Python 3.9 is installed

Download Python

Create and activate a virtual environment

C:\>python3 -m venv karaoke
C:\>karaoke\Scripts\activate
(pykaraoke) C:\>

Install the requirements

(message_room)$pip install pykaraoke

Using the bot

Run the bot as an interactive session

(karaoke)$ pykaraoke

The form questions:

Question 1 - API Token

Question 2 - Arist Name

Question 3 - Song Title

Environment variables

Every question can be stored as a variable in the environment. This is useful if you want to reuse the same question in multiple messages.

Linux: export TOKEN= export ARTIST= export SONG=

Windows: set TOKEN= set ARTIST= set SONG=