ultimate-guitar-scraper

A scraper for http://www.ultimate-guitar.com

Rock and roll! 🎸 🎶 🤘🏻

The scraper allows you to:

• Search TAB by keyword.
• Get TAB from its url.
• Get suggestions for artist or album.

Requirements

• nodejs >= 6.5
• npm

Installation

Using npm:

npm i ultimate-guitar-scraper --save

Usage

search(query, callback [, requestOptions])

query

Type: Object

Name	Type	Require	Default
query	string	yes
page	number	no	1
type	string or array	no	['Tab', 'Chords']

Available TAB types:

• 'Video'
• 'Tab'
• 'Chords'
• 'Bass'
• 'Guitar Pro'
• 'Power'
• 'Drums'
• 'Ukulele'

callback

Type: Function (error, tabs, requestResponse, requestBody)

• error: Error object. null if no error.
• tabs: an array of TAB (see TAB structure below) null if error.
• requestResponse: the original response returned by request.
• requestBody: the original body returned by request.

requestOptions

Type: Object

Options of the HTTP request, made with package request.

Examples

Basic usage.

const ugs = require('ultimate-guitar-scraper')

ugs.search({
  query: 'Wish You Were Here',
  page: 1,
  type: ['Tab', 'Chords', 'Guitar Pro']
}, (error, tabs) => {
  if (error) {
    console.log(error)
  } else {
    console.log(tabs)
  }
})

Using request options to pass a custom header.

const ugs = require('ultimate-guitar-scraper')

var query = {
  query: 'Cooking Up Something Good'
}

function callback (error, tabs, response, body) {
  if (error) {
    console.log(error)
  } else {
    console.log(tabs)
    console.log('Utlimate Guitar server: ' + response.headers['server'])
  }
}

var options = {
  headers: {
    'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2490.86 Safari/537.36'
  }
}

ugs.search(query, callback, options)

Tabs

Matches JSON schemas tabs.json.

Example:

[
  {
    artist: 'Incubus',
    name: 'Wish You Were Here',
    url: 'https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/incubus/wish_you_were_here_tabs_34713',
    rating: 3.8,
    numberRates: 5,
    type: 'Tab'
  },
  /* ... */
]

get(tabUrl, callback [, requestOptions])

tabUrl

Type: String

The url of the TAB.

callback

Type: Function(error, tab, requestResponse, requestBody)

• error: Error object. null if no error.
• tab: the TAB (see TAB structure below) null if error.
• requestResponse: the original response returned by request.
• requestBody: the original body returned by request.

requestOptions

Type: Object

Options of the HTTP request, made with package request.

Example

Basic usage.

const ugs = require('ultimate-guitar-scraper')

let tabUrl = 'https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/n/nirvana/smells_like_teen_spirit_ver2_crd.htm'
ugs.get(tabUrl, (error, tab) => {
  if (error) {
    console.log(error)
  } else {
    console.log(tab)
  }
})

Tab

Matches JSON schemas tab.json.

Example:

{
  artist: 'Nirvana',
  name: 'Smells Like Teen Spirit',
  url: 'https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/nirvana/smells_like_teen_spirit_chords_1197271',
  rating: 4.32643,
  numberRates: 35,
  type: 'Chords',
  difficulty: 'intermediate',
  content: {
    text: '[Intro]\n\n[ch]Fsus2[/ch]  [ch]Bbsus2[/ch]  [ch]Ab[/ch]  [ch]Db[/ch] (x4)\n\n\n[Verse Intro] ...'
  }
}

autocomplete(query, callback [, requestOptions])

query

Type: String

callback

Type: Function(error, suggestions, requestResponse, requestBody)

• error: Error object. null if no error.
• suggestions: an array of String that represent 'song' or 'artist'.
• requestResponse: the original response returned by request.
• requestBody: the original body returned by request.

requestOptions

Type: Object

Options of the HTTP request, made with package request.

Example

const ugs = require('ultimate-guitar-scraper')

var query = 'Ozzy'
ugs.autocomplete(query, (error, suggestions) => {
  if (error) {
    console.log(error)
  } else {
    console.log(suggestions)
  }
})

Suggestions

Matches JSON schemas suggestions.json.

Example:

[
  'ozzy osbourne',
  'ozzy',
  'ozzy osbourne crazy train live',
  'ozzy osbourne dreamer',
  'ozzy osbourne no more tears',
  'ozzy osbourne mama im coming home',
  'ozzy osbourne goodbye to romance',
  'ozzy osbourne shot in the dark',
  'ozzy osbourn',
  'ozzy osbourne perry mason'
]

Test

Feature tests are run daily, thank to Travis CI new feature CRON Jobs. This way we know if the scraper is ever broken.

Run the test:

npm test

Contributing

Contribution is welcome! Open an issue first.

License

MIT.