Fetches the currently playing song from Spotify on Windows, Linux and macOS and displays the lyrics in the command-line or in a browser tab.
Refreshes automatically when song changes. The lyrics are fetched from Genius.
Turns out Deezer already has this feature in-built but with swaglyrics, you can have it in Spotify as well.
Probably wasn't thinking when I put Swag in the name (will probably be seen by admission officers sigh) but I'm mainly trying to build this project as far as I can, for practice and to learn and work with more technologies (learnt AJAX).
Initially developed this for personal use. Pretty much functionality oriented -- I usually develop something that I can see helping me and other users in the same situation. Packaged so I can first hand handle production-ready code to an extent and to make distribution and usage easier.
SwagLyrics is participating in Google Code-in 2018 with CCExtractor Development!
Google Code-in is a global, online open source development & outreach contest for pre-university students aged between 13-17. Participants complete “tasks” ranging from coding, documentation, quality assurance, design, outreach and research to earn t-shirts, digital certificates, and hooded sweatshirts for their work. Grand Prize Winners receive a four day trip to Google in Mountain View, CA, USA the following summer!
We have a long and proud history of taking part in the Google Summer of Code with university students, and are excited to participate in GCI again for 3rd year with pre-university students!
Sounds interesting? Read more about it on our website here and on the official website here.
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- Added macOS support
- Added more tests
- Added unidecode to support songs with diacritics
- Fixed commandline not clearing b/w songs on Linux
- Improved issue-making
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- Added Linux support
- Added more tests
- Set up code coverage and continuous integration
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- A GitHub issue is created automatically on the repo when an unsupported song is encountered (implemented server-side using pythonanywhere).
Requires Python3. Use pip or pip3 depending on your installation.
pip install swaglyrics
Make sure to use a version >= 0.1.6 since the previous ones don't have the tab option supported.
swaglyrics [-h] [-t] [-c]
Either the tab or cli argument is required to output lyrics.
Arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-t, --tab Display lyrics in a browser tab.
-c, --cli Display lyrics in the command-line.
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|-- swaglyrics
|-- static # contains styling and the AJAX script needed to dynamically refresh browser tab with new lyrics
|-- templates # contains template for the browser tab
|-- __init__.py
|-- __main__.py # holds primary function that parses args and executes accordingly
|-- cli.py # defines functions to fetch lyrics from Genius
|-- spotify.py # defines functions to get currently playing song and artist from the Spotify app
|-- tab.py # Flask app to display lyrics in a browser tab
|-- unsupported.txt # to log unsupported songs
|--tests
|-- LICENSE.md
|-- MANIFEST.in
|-- README.md
|-- setup.py
Linux and macOS support doneBetter logging of unsupported songs, the isolated unsupported.txt is sub-optimal for multiple users since the file will only update locally with songs which worked fine when it was just me but since I hope others use it too, I'll try to add a better method with server support.- Better tests to test all of the functionality.
- Perhaps a tiny app using Electron that could fit in your tray to be opened whenever you want lyrics for a song.
- Supporting more songs, currently the program sometimes fails at remixes since while the lyrics are same as original, the artist is the remixer.
- Documenting all the files.
