Shell script for fetching a song’s lyrics from lyrics.ovh.
Previously, this used to use songlyrics.com — and before that, lyrics.wikia.com. At least, until lyrics.wikia.com was axed for copyright-related reasons.
songlyrics.com had more flexible searching (you could make typos), but it
was a pretty slow site. lyrics.ovh is a good deal faster, but much more picky.
It’s also libre, and beautiful.
Check out lyrics.ovh’s repo!
Simply copy wydir and wyrics into your $PATH; somewhere like /usr/local/bin or
~/.local/bin.
$ cp wydir wyrics ~/.local/bin/
You’ll need:
- curl
- Shell (ksh, bash)
Run wyrics like so, replacing “$ARTIST” and “$SONG” with your artist and song,
respectively:
$ wyrics $ARTIST $SONG
If you want to save lyrics to a file, you’ll need to redirect the output:
$ wyrics "dream theater" "octavarium" > lyrics.txt
Wydir runs wyrics over every song in a directory of a given file-extension.
Each song’s lyrics are written to a .txt file of the song’s name.
Just run wydir like so:
$ wydir $ARTIST $FILE_EXTENSION
It’s convenient if you wanna get the lyrics of an album in one go.
License is CC0.
Author is Jaidyn Ann jadedctrl@posteo.at
Sauce is at https://hak.xwx.moe/jadedctrl/wyrics