PyLyr

Get lyrics of a song playing through mpd via api requests and webscraping

• Lyrics are cached in ~/.lyrics/ to avoid repeated requests for the same song
  • A nice corollary is that song titles can be determined with a grep command:

    grep -ri 'lyric string' ~/.lyrics
    

Usage

Run pylyr -h to see an overview of command flags

• Output is to stdout by default to allow for easy manipulation

Examples

Downloading lyrics for all of a specific artist's songs:

ARTIST="<artist>"
mpc -f 'pylyr -v -t "%title%" -a "%artist%"' search artist "$ARTIST" \
| while read line
do
    sh -c "$line"
done

Downloading lyrics for your entire library:

mpc -f 'if \[ ! -f ~/.lyrics/"%artist% - %title%.txt" \]; \
then pylyr -v -t "%title%" -a "%artist%"; fi' listall | while read line
do
    sh -c "$line"
done