Nicole - Lyrics Scraper

Overview

Nicole is a program that searches for lyrics and writes them into the mp3-tag. There is a 5 second delay between each request to azlyrics.com because the site will block your ip if there are too many requests.

Files

Nicole supports FLAC and mp3 files. Other files can not be edited (as of now). Files that do not have a .flac or .mp3 extension are skipped automatically.

• mp3: lyrics are stored in "USLT" tag as "lyrics- "
• flac: lyrics are stored as vorbis-comment with key "LYRICS"

History

Nicole creates a history of all files that were processed in ~/.configs/nicole. If a file is in the history, it will be skipped unless ignore_history=True. If the lyrics for a file can not be obtained, it is added to ~/.configs/nicole/failed_files. Those files are not skipped, the file only exists so that you can see which lyrics were not downloaded.

If you dont want your files in the history, add the -n option.

azlyrics

Nicole creates a azlyrics.com url from the title and artist mp3-tags of the file. The lyrics are extracted from the html document using regex.

Usage

Command line options:

• -d [directory] process directory [directory]
• -f [file] process file [file]
• -r go through directories recursively
• -s silent, no command-line output
• -i ignore history
• -n do not write to history
• -o overwrite if the file already has a comment
• -h show this

If you do not specify a directory or file, the program will ask you if you want to use the current working directory.

Installation

Clone this repository and install it using python-pip. pip should also install https://github.com/seebye/mutagen, which is needed to read and write the mp3-tags.

cd ~/Downloads
git clone https://github.com/MatthiasQuintern/nicole.git
cd nicole
python3 -m pip install .

You can also install it system-wide using sudo python3 -m pip install.

Importand Notice

This software comes with no warranty!