Nicole - Lyrics Scraper

New-Intrepid-Chief-Of-Lyrics-Embedders (obviously)

Overview

Nicole is a program that searches for lyrics and writes them into the mp3-tag of a file.

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 -i is passed). 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 don't want your files in the history, add the -n option.

genius

Nicole searches for lyrics using the genius api with the "title" and "artist" tags of the file. If the title and artist names from genius are similar enough to the ones of the file, the lyrics are scraped from the url obtained through the api.

azlyrics

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

Unfortunately, there needs to be a 5 second delay between each request to azlyrics.com because the site will block your ip for a while if you send many requests.

Usage

Command line options

• --directory DIRECTORY, -d DIRECTORY process directory [directory]
• --file FILE, -f FILE process file [file]
• --recursive, -r go through directories recursively
• --silent silent, no command-line output
• --ignore-history, -i ignore history
• --no-history, -n do not write to history
• --overwrite, -o overwrite if the file already has lyrics
• --dry-run, -t test, do not write lyrics to file, but print to console
• --rm-explicit remove the "[Explicit]" lyrics warning from the songs title tag
• --site SITE, -s SITE use only [site]: azlyrics or genius

Example: nicole -ior -d ~/music/artist --rm-explicit

Installation and Updating

To update nicole, simply follow the installation instructions.

pacman (Arch Linux)

Installing nicole using the Arch Build System also installs the man-page and a zsh completion script, if you have zsh installed.

git clone https://github.com/MatthiasQuintern/nicole.git
cd nicole
makepkg -si

pip

You can also install nicole with python-pip:

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.

If you also want to install the man-page and the zsh completion script:

sudo cp nicole.1.man /usr/share/man/man1/nicole.1
sudo gzip /usr/share/man/man1/nicole.1
sudo cp _nicole.compdef.zsh /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_nicole
sudo chmod +x /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_nicole

Dependencies

• https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen read and write mp3-tags
• https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ deal with the html from genius

The dependencies will be automatically installed when using the either of the two installation options.

Changelog

2.1.0

• Refactoring:
  • use argparse
  • use pyproject.toml
• Ignore case when matching a genius result

2.0

• Nicole now supports lyrics from genius!
• Added man-page
• Added zsh-completion

1.1

• Lyrics are now properly encoded.
• If a title contains parenthesis or umlaute, multiple possible urls will be checked.
• Files are now processed in order

Copyright

Copyright © 2024 Matthias Quintern. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.