Whenever there were unicode characters that needed to be printed, an error would be produced. I encoded the print statements and it resolved the issue.

get_song_annotations() can be used for getting all song's annotations from a song id. It returns a list of tuple : (fragment, list_of_annotations). Each fragment correspond to a highlighted part of the song, where people can write annotations. Resolve #100

Hi, I get an error message while using your code:

import lyricsgenius as genius api = genius.Genius('----my api code ---') artist = api.search_artist('Andy Shauf', max_songs=3)

Error message:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:/Users/Chris/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python37-32/top2000/181208 top2000.py", line 3, in artist = api.search_artist('Andy Shauf', max_songs=3) File "C:\Users\Chris\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\lyricsgenius\api.py", line 283, in search_artist found_name = artist_info['artist']['name'] TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable

Can you help me with this? Many thanks!

Version 2.0.2 that was just released on PyPi introduces new features and more importantly breaking changes. If we were to follow Semantic Versioning, 2.0.2 probably should've been 3.0. Supposing we merge #156, #158, #159, and another one I have coming where Genius no longer needs a token (I should've actually implemented that in #160), what version do you think it should be? We could go for 2.1.0 which is against Semantic Versioning, or 3.0? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.

Hi there! I would like to use this library to get lyrics of a bunch of songs, and perform some NLP experiments. I have successfully created an API client through genius.com, and got the credentials along with the client access token. However, when I try to get some Rihanna's songs' lyrics, I only get NoneType Objects. Below is the super simple code I have used to get the lyrics:

import lyricsgenius

genius = lyricsgenius.Genius('xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx', skip_non_songs=True, excluded_terms=["(Remix)", "(Live)"], remove_section_headers=True)

artist = genius.search_artist("Rihanna", max_songs=10, sort="popularity")
for song in artist.songs:
     print(song.lyrics)

And the printed result is:

Searching for songs by Rihanna...

Song 1: "Work"
Song 2: "Needed Me"
Song 3: "Love on the Brain"
Song 4: "Stay"
Song 5: "Kiss it Better"
Song 6: "Sex with Me"
Song 7: "Bitch Better Have My Money"
"Bad (Remix)" is not valid. Skipping.
Song 8: "Consideration"
Song 9: "Diamonds"
Song 10: "Desperado"

Reached user-specified song limit (10).
Done. Found 10 songs.

None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None
None

All the 10 collected songs, have a field called 'lyrics' but all of them are empty. More specifically is of type 'NoneType object of builtins module'. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance!

I'm trying to download a huge number of lyrics for a university project. I have files that represent a genre which contain 50 artists I want to download all lyrics from.

So I wrote a python script that scans the folder and reads the lists one by one, trying to download the lyrics for every artist in these lists.

Sometimes the following happens:

Timeout raised and caught: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='api.genius.com', port=443): Read timed out. (read timeout=5) Traceback (most recent call last): File "lyricsapi.py", line 54, in artist = api.search_artist(a.strip(), max_songs=max_songs, sort="title") File "/home/duke/anaconda3/envs/dynamusic/lib/python3.7/site-packages/lyricsgenius/api.py", line 356, in search_artist song = Song(info, lyrics) File "/home/duke/anaconda3/envs/dynamusic/lib/python3.7/site-packages/lyricsgenius/song.py", line 26, in init self._body = json_dict['song'] if 'song' in json_dict else json_dict TypeError: argument of type 'NoneType' is not iterable

This error happens pretty randomly, sometimes after 50 texts, sometimes after 600. Earlier today it happened after downloading 113 texts by Eminem, but in the next try it managed to download all 490 of his songs, just to fail after a few songs from the next artist in line.

This also happened, when I ran the script on my server, which has a separate internet connection.

Version info

• Package version 1.7.0
• OS: Ubuntu 19.10 (also happened on a 18.04 machine)

My code

from lyricsgenius import Genius

genius = Genius(xxx)


genius.remove_section_headers = True

artist = genius.search_artist(xxx)
artist.save_lyrics(extension = 'txt', binary_encoding=True)

Sometimes script can't find lyrics to one song, passes it and goes to another one. But when saving file, it gives this error:

Error at line XX: Expected str instance nonetype found genius lyrics

How do I fix this error so I'm able to save the lyrics, even if one or more is missing?

Documentation

Have a look at the docs here Considering #63 and the need for docs, I created documentation for the library using Sphinx and also used the RTD theme for it. I used the Google style for documenting the classes, and the functions. Since the library supports all Python 3 versions, I didn't use type hints to auto-document things in Sphinx and added them manually in the docstrings. I also added some examples under the methods, and some more are in the snippets page of the docs. I also added a picture to the index page for aesthetics. I didn't use the Genius logo, because I wasn't sure if using their logo here was allowed or no. This is the first version of the docs, so I'd appreciate any suggestions. To check out the built version of the docs for yourself, install the packages in the requirements file in the docs folder. And then run make html in the same directory (or just use the tox commands below).

PEP8 Check

I also did the PEP8 checks, but I'm not sure if all of them contributed to the clarity and style of the code. So feel free to revert any of those. For PEP8, I used flake8 coupled with flake8-bugbear. As for the configs I set for flake8, they're all present in the tox.ini file.

The dreaded DIV class

Looks like Genius went and changed up the class of the lyrics' div tag again (#148). I provided two solutions in the mentioned issue, but two users reported that it didn't work for them. But I can't really say anything about that since the fixes both work for me. So I added the second fix to the code.

Tox

I added tox so you can check things yourself. Running tox in the source dir of the library will run flake8, doc8 (PEP8 for docs), and create the docs to see if they are created correctly. You can run the following tox commands for the checks:

• tox - runs flake8, doc8, and tests creating docs
• tox -e lint - rung flake8 and doc8
• tox -e docs tests creating docs
• tox - test runs the tests using pytest (needs GENIUS_CLIENT_ACCESS_TOKEN env var set)

For tox, I had to edit setup.py, add some things to it, and remove reading the requirements from the text file. But if you don't want to keep the tox file, feel free to revert setup.py and remove the tox file.

Describe the bug When I search for the lyrics of a song it shows me a list of different songs on genius but no the lyrics of the song I specified. I'm using the search_song() function. The title of the song is without any "remix", "live" etc. tags.

Expected behavior It should be displaying the lyrics of the song not a list of different songs grabbed from genius.

To Reproduce Describe the steps required to reproduce the behavior.

1. Search for the song "Post Malone (feat. RANI) by Sam Feldt. genius.search_song("Post Malone (feat. RANI)", "Sam Feldt"
2. Print the results.
3. It should be displaying a list of different songs but not lyrics.

I get no error just the behavior of the module is wrong.

Version info

• Package version [1.7.0]
• OS: [Windows 10 Home 64-bit]

Additional context It's not happening to every song. Just a few songs have this problem.

First of all, thanks for the nice program, seems to work well for the most part. I'm trying to build a corpus of lyrics for a project at my university, so I try to fetch all the songs of the artists I want to incorporate. Once the program fetched most of the songs, it seems to find many duplicates and attempts to skip, but skipping takes way longer than fetching a song. Is there any way to speed up the skipping process? Best regards.

• Sphinx displayed types attributes using the information in docstrings but they looked a bit messy. So I removed them and manually put them in a table in docs
• added checking for song_info['instrumental'] when available to avoid fetching lyrics for instrumental songs.
• renamed album.songs to album.tracks
• added the Track type (Note: On Genius a track just has the number and song attributes, but since Track inherits BaseEntity it will have a redundant id attribute and Track.id == Track.song.id.)
• refactored OAuth2 to only support code flow in get_user_token since the token flow already has the token in the redirected url.
• added release notes to docs (not completed yet)

From my view, there is no option to give the save_lyrics()-function a path or destination, where to save. I think that should be added. If I missed something or someone has a smart workaround, please let me know :)

Describe the bug Write a clear and concise description of what the bug is.

Expected behavior When the function crashes, I expect to get the fully downloaded lyric files for the artists, witch are completed to the state of crashing.

To Reproduce My Setup is: I want to download the top 50 lyrics from a list of 100 Artists. Often the function crashes for example at song 20 and all the progress for this artist is lost. After the crash, the return of the function is none.

Version info

• Package version: 3.0.1
• OS: macOS m1 (python 3.9)

Additional context I have a workaround with a loop to repeat on crash and try every artist max. 10 times. Works for now, but not nice :)

THX for the great library, by the way. Enjoy using it!

if you want to see my use in the project, look over to https://github.com/Tr33Bug/ML-NLP-LyricsGen-Transformer

I have a lot of features to offer, however seems this project abandoned completely. And most strange and bad bug I have is: having incorrectly written song name I get completely random song lyrics. Question is: is it worth to make bug reports/pr or it's better to begin to write my own scrapper? Sad story tbh.

Hello,

I was wondering if it's possible to get random songs from an artist ?

Something like that:

artist = genius.search_artist("Andy Shauf", max_songs=3, sort="random")
print(artist.songs)

Thank you

TLDR: song_annotations returns only 10 results, I would like to get all annotations for a song.

I'm performing a text search on all Genius. I get a list of songs that somehow reference the term and I'd like to get alla annotations for these songs (since the term I searched is likely to be there). But the method (https://lyricsgenius.readthedocs.io/en/master/reference/genius.html#lyricsgenius.Genius.song_annotations) returns only 10 results, which 99% of times do not include that very first term I've searched.

I'd like a parameter to specify how many results to return - and ideally also one for the pagination of results.

I could not find any docs on Genius how to do this with their API (I cannot even get the 10-result list from that API) Any help would be appreciated! Thank you in advance