The "Genius Lyrics Finder" is an Alfred workflow that allows you to quickly search for song lyrics using the Genius API. It provides a convenient way to find lyrics for your favorite songs right from your Alfred interface.
- Quick and Easy Lyrics Search: Simply type
lyricsfollowed by the lyrics you're looking for, and the workflow will fetch the results. - Lyrics Results: The workflow displays the song title, artist, a snippet of the lyrics, and a link to the full lyrics page on Genius.com.
- Optional Image Download: You can choose to download and display the song's header image as an icon in the workflow results.
- Image Cache Management: The workflow automatically deletes old header images from the cache to free up disk space, although image sizes are usually very small (150 KB).
- Download the "Genius Lyrics Finder" workflow from the ⤓ GitHub repository.
- Double-click the downloaded file to install it in Alfred.
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In Alfred, type
lyricsfollowed by the lyrics you want to search for. For example:lyrics love me like you do. -
The workflow will fetch the lyrics results from Genius.com and display them in Alfred.
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Click on a result to open the lyrics page on Genius.com in your browser.
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To display the song's header image as an icon in the results, check
Download and display imagesinConfigure Workflow...in Alfred. Additionally, you can adjust theImages cache dayssetting to determine the number of days an image should be stored in the cache before being automatically removed.
- The workflow utilizes the Genius API to search for song lyrics and retrieve the necessary data.