@fantox01/lyrics-scraper

The simplest yet most powerful Genius Lyrics scrapper

Description:

• This is a Scraper which can scrap and give you lyrics of any song that's available on Genius Offitial Site.
• This can return both album thumbnail and lyrics if they are available through thw power of web scraping.
• Scraping an website is not always allowed by the website owners. This project is made for educational purposes only.

Whats New on version 3.0.1

• Added ES6 Javascript and Typescript Support
• Updated code according to updated Genius Lyrics page HTML
• Added JS Doc for more clear implementation
• Added support for promises too
• Removed backwards compatibility for older version of this package (Use npm i @fantox01/lyrics-scraper@latest to update)

Installation:

npm i @fantox01/lyrics-scraper

yarn add @fantox01/lyrics-scraper

Usage:

• For ES5 Javascript

const getLyrics = require("@fantox01/lyrics-scraper");

const main = async () => {
  const data = await getLyrics("Heat Waves");
  console.log(data);
};
main();

• For ES6 Javascript / Typescript

import { getLyrics } from "@fantox01/lyrics-scraper";

const main = async () => {
  const data = await getLyrics("Heat Waves");
  console.log(data);
};
main();

Output:

• It will automatically format the lyrics and add new lines ("\n").
• Use console.log(data.lyrics) to for only lyrics and console.log(data.thumbnail) to get only thumbnail.

{
  status: 200,
  url: 'https://genius.com/Glass-animals-heat-waves-lyrics',
  album: 'Heat Waves by Glass Animals',
  artist: 'Glass Animals',
  release_date: 'June 29, 2020',
  thumbnail: 'https://images.genius.com/25ffad8f4a6804e3efc869253f030baf.1000x1000x1.jpg',
  lyrics: '[Intro]\n' +
    '(Last night, all I think about is you)\n' +
    "(Don't stop, baby, you can walk through)\n" +
    "(Don't want, baby, think about you)\n" +
    "(You know that I'm never gonna lose)\n" +
    "Road shimmer wigglin' the vision\n" +
    "Heat, heat waves, I'm swimmin' in a mirror\n" +
    "Road shimmer wigglin' the vision\n" +
    "Heat, heat waves, I'm swimmin' in a—\n" +
    '\n' +
    '[Chorus]\n' +
    'Sometimes, all I think about is you\n' +
    'Late nights in the middle of June\n' +
    "Heat waves been fakin' me out\n" +
    "Can't make you happier now\n" +
    'Sometimes, all I think about is you\n' +
    'Late nights in the middle of June\n' +
    "Heat waves been fakin' me out\n" +
    "Can't make you happier now\n" +
    '\n' +
    '[Verse 1]\n' +
    "Usually, I put somethin' on TV\n" +
    'So we never think about you and me\n' +
    'But today, I see our reflections clearly\n' +
    "In Hollywood, layin' on the screen\n" +
    'You just need a better life than this\n' +
    "You need somethin' I can never give\n" +
    'Fake water all across the road\n' +
    "It's gone now, the night has come, but\n" +
    '\n' +
    '[Chorus]\n' +
    'Sometimes, all I think about is you\n' +
    'Late nights in the middle of June\n' +
    "Heat waves been fakin' me out\n" +
    "Can't make you happier now\n" +
    '\n' +
    '[Verse 2]\n' +
    "You can't fight it, you can't breathe\n" +
    "You say somethin' so lovin', but\n" +
    'Now I gotta let you go\n' +
    "You'll be better off in someone new\n" +
    "I don't wanna be alone\n" +
    'You know it hurts me too\n' +
    'You look so broken when you cry\n' +
    'One more and then I say goodbye\n' +
    '\n' +
    '[Chorus]\n' +
    'Sometimes, all I think about is you\n' +
    'Late nights in the middle of June\n' +
    "Heat waves been fakin' me out\n" +
    "Can't make you happier now\n" +
    'Sometimes, all I think about is you\n' +
    'Late nights in the middle of June\n' +
    "Heat waves been fakin' me out\n" +
    "Can't make you happier now\n" +
    '\n' +
    '[Bridge]\n' +
    "I just wonder what you're dreamin' of\n" +
    'When you sleep and smile so comfortable\n' +
    'I just wish that I could give you that\n' +
    "That look that's perfectly un-sad\n" +
    'Sometimes, all I think about is you\n' +
    'Late nights in the middle of June\n' +
    "Heat waves been fakin' me out\n" +
    "Heat waves been fakin' me out\n" +
    '\n' +
    '[Chorus]\n' +
    'Sometimes, all I think about is you\n' +
    'Late nights in the middle of June\n' +
    "Heat waves been fakin' me out\n" +
    "Can't make you happier now\n" +
    'Sometimes, all I think about is you\n' +
    'Late nights in the middle of June\n' +
    "Heat waves been fakin' me out\n" +
    "Can't make you happier now\n" +
    '\n' +
    '[Outro]\n' +
    "Road shimmer wigglin' the vision\n" +
    "Heat, heat waves, I'm swimmin' in a mirror\n" +
    "Road shimmer wigglin' the vision\n" +
    "Heat, heat waves, I'm swimmin' in a mirror"
}

Making of @fantox01/lyrics-scraper

How?

• Using Axios and Cheerio
• Axios - A promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js
• Cheerio - A fast, flexible, and elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML.

Why?

• IDK, scraping is fun to me and also legal upto a limited extend as long as you don't misuse it.
  

Contributions

• Made by FantoX
• I don't have any other contributors in this project yet. Feel free to contribute.

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