dmlunde / LyricsGenius

Download song lyrics and metadata from Genius.com 🎶🎤

LyricsGenius: a Python client for the Genius.com API

lyricsgenius provides a simple interface to the song, artist, and lyrics data stored on Genius.com.

Setup

Before using this package you'll need to sign up for a (free) account that authorizes access to the Genius API. The Genius account provides a client_access_token that is required by the package. See the Usage section below for examples.

Installation

lyricsgenius requires Python 3.

Use pip to install the package from PyPI:

pip install lyricsgenius

Or, install the latest version of the package from GitHub:

pip install git+https://github.com/johnwmillr/LyricsGenius.git

Usage

Import the package and search for songs by a given artist:

import lyricsgenius
genius = lyricsgenius.Genius("my_client_access_token_here")
artist = genius.search_artist("Andy Shauf", max_songs=3, sort="title")
print(artist.songs)

Search for a single song by the same artist:

song = genius.search_song("To You", artist.name)
print(song.lyrics)

Add the song to the artist object:

artist.add_song(song)

Save the artist's songs to a JSON file:

artist.save_lyrics()

There are various options configurable as parameters within the Genius class:

genius.verbose = False # Turn off status messages
genius.remove_section_headers = True # Remove section headers (e.g. [Chorus]) from lyrics when searching
genius.skip_non_songs = False # Include hits thought to be non-songs (e.g. track lists)
genius.excluded_terms = ["(Remix)", "(Live)"] # Exclude songs with these words in their title

You can also call the package from the command line:

export GENIUS_CLIENT_ACCESS_TOKEN="my_client_access_token_here"
python3 -m lyricsgenius --help

Search for and save lyrics to a given song:

python3 -m lyricsgenius song "Begin Again" "Andy Shauf" --save

Search for five songs by 'The Beatles' and save the lyrics:

python3 -m lyricsgenius artist "The Beatles" --max-songs 5 --save

Example projects

• Trucks and Beer: A textual analysis of popular country music
• Neural machine translation: Explaining the Meaning Behind Lyrics
• What makes some blink-182 songs more popular than others?
• Sentiment analysis on hip-hop lyrics
• Does Country Music Drink More Than Other Genres?
• 49 Years of Lyrics: Why So Angry?

Contributing

Please contribute! If you want to fix a bug, suggest improvements, or add new features to the project, just open an issue or send me a pull request.