This is a simple script that downloads all lyrics off an artist page from the website songtextemania.com and optionally writes them to disk using the filename given on the commandline. The data is formatted as a list of dictionaries, where each entry in the list represents a song, and where each song dictionary contains the song title, url and lyrics.
python get-lyrics.py --json filename artist-url
- option to download just one song
- option to download each song to a textfile in a corpus-directory, together with a metadata-file
- option to download just a song from a song-page