4lyric

4Lyrics

A webscraper to parse and return lyrics from different sites. No API keys required!

Benefits (over main branch)

• Only 3 dependencies.
• Uses xpath and xmldom instead of Cheerio and its dependencies.
• Has (hopefully) functional typings for TypeScript users (v2.0.2).
• Much cleaner and lighter than master branch.
• Versatile; easily adaptable to other sites.
• Removed Lyricslive module entirely as the site is now defunct. songlyrics.com is added in place.

Quick-start

const { MusixMatch, AzLyrics, SongLyricsCom, LyricsCom } = require('./lib/musixmatch');
const M = new MusixMatch();
const A = new AzLyrics();
const S = new SongLyricsCom();
const L = new LyricsCom();
 
(async () => {
    // musixmatch
    const m_u = await M.fetchURLs('Boston more than a feeling');
    const m_l = await M.fetchLyrics(m_u[0]);
    // azlyrics
    const a_u = await A.fetchURLs('Boston more than a feeling');
    const a_l = await A.fetchLyrics(a_u[0]);
    // songlyrics.com
    const s_u = await S.fetchURLs('Boston more than a feeling');
    const s_l = await S.fetchLyrics(s_u[0]);
    // lyrics.com
    const l_u = await L.fetchURLs('Boston more than a feeling');
    const l_l = await L.fetchLyrics(l_u[0]);
})();

Note

• If no lyrics or URLs are found, an empty array is returned.
• Musixmatch is recommended for search accuracy and lyric accuracy.

WIP

1. Options (URL limits, etc.).