genius-lyrics

This is a custom component for Home Assistant to allow fetching song lyrics from Genius.

NOTE: this is a work in progress -- expect changes.

Installation

With HACS

Open HACS Settings and add this repository (https://github.com/robert-alfaro/genius-lyrics) as a Custom Repository (use Integration as the category).
The Genius Lyrics page should automatically load (or find it in the HACS Store)
Click Install

Manual

Copy the genius_lyrics directory from custom_components in this repository, and place inside your Home Assistant installation's custom_components directory.

Setup

Sign up for a free account at genius.com and authorize access to the Genius API to get your client_access_token.
Install this component
Install markdown card mod lovelace-markdown-mod
Add the following to your configuration.yaml

genius_lyrics:
  access_token: "your Genius client access token"

sensors:
  - platform: template
    sensors:
      lyrics:
        friendly_name: "Lyrics"
        value_template: ""

Create markdown card in lovelace.

  - type: markdown
    content: >
      ## [[ sensor.lyrics.attributes.artist ]] - [[ sensor.lyrics.attributes.title ]]

      [[ sensor.lyrics.attributes.lyrics ]]

Create an automation to call service genius_lyrics.search_lyrics upon media_player state change, providing "Artist", "Title".

Screenshot

Example service call JSON

{
 "artist_name":"Protoje",
 "song_title":"Mind of a King",
 "entity_id":"sensor.lyrics"
}

Thanks to

@johnwmillr for lyricsgenius python package!
@thomasloven for lovelace markdown-mod!

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