genius-lyrics-api

genius-lyrics-api

A package that provides a convenient wrapper around Genius API for searching and scraping song lyrics.
It doesn't use any native node dependencies and thus, can be used on the frontend.

Installation

Install with npm

npm install --save genius-lyrics-api

Or install with Yarn

yarn add genius-lyrics-api

Usage

Get the Genius Developer Access Token

import { getLyrics } from 'genius-lyrics-api';

const options = {
	apiKey: 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX', // genius developer access token
	title: 'Blinding Lights',
	artist: 'The Weeknd',
	optimizeQuery: true
};

getLyrics(options).then(lyrics => console.log(lyrics));

:warning: You may get a CORS block error while testing on localhost. To bypass this, you need to disable Same-Origin Policy in your browser. Follow the instructions here.

Methods

genius-lyrics-api exposes the following methods:

getLyrics(options)

Automatically get the lyrics from genius.com using the title & artist fields.
Returns a promise that resolves to a string containing lyrics. Returns null if no lyrics are found.

Arguments

const options = {
	apiKey: string, // Genius Developer API key/Access Token
	title: string, // Title of the song
	artist: string, // Name of the artist
	optimizeQuery: boolean // Whether to remove redundant words from "title" & "artist" before searching. "false" by default.
};

All properties in the options object are required except optimizeQuery. If either of the title or artist is unknown, pass an empty string as its value.

searchLyrics(options)

Search lyrics from genius.com using the title & artist fields.
Returns a promise that resolves to an array of search results. Returns null if no matches are found.

Receives the same arguments as getLyrics.

getLyricsFromPath(path: string)

Get the lyrics of a song using the path property present in the search results of searchLyrics method.
Returns a promise that resolves to a string containing lyrics.

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