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Command Line Spotify Lyrics with Album Cover

Project description

Yet Another Spotify Command Line Lyrics

Lyrics-Screenshot

Requirements

  • Linux
  • Python >= 3.6
  • ueberzug
  • dbus-python
  • requests
  • beautifulsoup4
  • lxml

Install

From PyPI

pip3 install yet-another-spotify-lyrics --user

From Source

git clone https://github.com/goktug97/yet-another-spotify-lyrics
cd yet-another-spotify-lyrics
python setup.py install --user

Usage

Usage Gif

spotify-lyrics

Keybindings

Action Keybinding
Scroll Up k
Scroll Down j
Beginning of Lyrics gg
End of Lyrics G
Edit Lyrics e
Refresh r
Toggle t
Next n
Prev p
Update Lyrics d
Help h
Quit Program q
  • Edit Lyrics: Open lyrics in $EDITOR.
  • Refresh: Refresh lyrics and song metadata.
  • Toggle: Play or Pause currently playing song.
  • Next: Play next song.
  • Prev: Play previous song.
  • Update Lyrics: Deletes cached lyrics and fetches lyrics from the internet.
  • Help: Show keybindings 5 seconds.

Example Use Case (i3wm)

bindsym $mod+Shift+Home exec st -n Lyrics -e spotify-lyrics
for_window [instance="Lyrics"] floating enable; [instance="Lyrics"] move position center
for_window [instance="Lyrics"] resize set 644 388

Example Use Case (Emacs)

Open the lyrics in a buffer.

(defun spotify-lyrics ()
  (interactive)
  (let ((string (shell-command-to-string "spotify-lyrics-once")))
    (get-buffer-create "lyrics-buffer")
    (switch-to-buffer-other-window "lyrics-buffer")
    (with-current-buffer "lyrics-buffer"
      (goto-char (point-max))
      (erase-buffer)
      (insert string)
      (goto-line 1))))

Example Use Case (Conky)

You can use spotify-lyrics-once to output the lyrics to the stdout and exit. If you have program that utilizes stdin, you can use this version. An example for such program is Conky.

#!/usr/bin/lua
conky.config = {
	alignment = 'tl',
	background = true,
	color2 = '2ECC71',
	cpu_avg_samples = 2,
	default_color = 'FFFFFF',
	double_buffer = true,
	font = 'Bitstream Vera Sans:size=10',
	gap_x = 30,
	gap_y = 50,
	minimum_width = 200,
	no_buffers = true,
	own_window = true,
	own_window_type = 'override',
	own_window_transparent = true,
	own_window_argb_visual = true,
	-- own_window_type = 'desktop',
	update_interval = 3,
	use_xft = true,
}
conky.text = [[
${voffset 8}$color2${font Bitstream Vera Sans:size=16}${time %A}$font\
${voffset -8}$alignr$color${font Bitstream Vera Sans:size=38}${time %e}$font
$color${voffset -30}$color${font Bitstream Vera Sans:size=18}${time %b}$font\
${voffset -3} $color${font Bitstream Vera Sans:size=20}${time %Y}$font$color2$hr
${execi 5 spotify-lyrics-once}
]]

License

yet-another-spotify-lyrics is licensed under the MIT License.

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