swaglyrics_go

swaglyrics-go

Look ma, I copied that code! Go lang rewrite of swaglyrics ✨

From Swaglyrics/Swaglyrics-for-Spotify's README:

Fetches the currently playing song from Spotify on Windows, Linux and macOS and displays the lyrics in the command-line, browser tab or in a desktop application. 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.

This rewrite doesn't do all that, but, you can get the lyrics for a song from your terminal: just do

sl --track 'bad guy' --artist 'Billie Eilish'

and you get the lyrics!

I'm mainly trying to build this project as far as I can, for practice and to learn and work with more technologies and platforms because I had to use it in a Go project, and didn't want to add python dependencies to it.

Initially developed copied this for personal use, and still is. Pretty much This is not functionality oriented, It Just Werkz™ -- 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. Used Go lang, because it makes package distribution very easy. Finally, I don't need to worry about a million pip packages, version conflicts, etc...

Installation

sudo wget https://github.com/srevinsaju/swaglyrics-go/releases/download/continuous/sl -O /usr/local/bin/sl
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/sl
sl --help

Usage

usage: sl --track 'Foo' --artist 'Bar'

NAME:
   swaglyrics-go - Get the lyrics for a song

USAGE:
   sl [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

COMMANDS:
   help, h  Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --track value   Song title
   --artist value  Song artist
   --help, -h      show help (default: false)

Before using, you should check USING.txt to comply with the Genius ToS. There's a copy included inside the package as well.

API

A simple broiler plate to use swaglyrics in your golang project:

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"

	sl "github.com/srevinsaju/swaglyrics-go"
	"github.com/srevinsaju/swaglyrics-go/types"
)

func main() {
	lyrics, err := sl.GetLyrics(types.Song{Track: "Butter", Artist: "BTS"})
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalln(err)
	}
	fmt.Println(lyrics)
}

Building

git clone https://github.com/srevinsaju/swaglyrics-go
cd swaglyrics-go/cmd/sl
go build .
./sl --help

References

• The original Python implementation: see Swaglyrics-for-Spotify.
• For its LICENSE, see LICENSE.md.
• The Swaglyrics Project

License

Since swaglyrics-go is a port of swaglyrics from python, respect its license.

See LICENSE