a command-line song lyric fetcher
Project description
songtext
A command-line song lyric fetcher.
Inspired by @gleitz’s howdoi. Name from the German word for “lyrics”.
Installation
With pip:
$ pip install songtext
With distutils:
$ python setup.py install
Usage
Search by both artist name (-a, --artist) and song title (-t, --title):
$ songtext -a pvris -t fire PVRIS: Fire ----------- Don't blame your death on the shit in your head That you claimed ate you like a virus for days on end I watched you decay, watched you waste away Who'd you think you'd fool, baby, diggin' your own grave?
Option values that consist of more than one word need to be quoted:
$ songtext -a 'nina simone' -t sinnerman Nina Simone: Sinnerman ---------------------- Oh sinnerman, where you gonna run to? Sinnerman, where you gonna run to? Where you gonna run to? All along dem day
Punctuation is important too:
$ songtext -a "shawn mendes" -t "theres nothing holdin me back" Your query did not match any tracks. $ songtext -a "shawn mendes" -t "there's nothing holdin' me back" Shawn Mendes: There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back --------------------------------------------- I wanna follow her where she goes I think about her and she knows it I wanna let it take control 'Cause every time that she gets closer
Note that paging is turned on by default. Use the --no-pager flag to turn it off.
argument/API |
lyricwiki |
|---|---|
positional (generic search) |
No |
-a, --artist |
Yes |
-t, --title |
Yes |
-w, --words |
No |
-l, --show-list |
No |
--limit |
No |
--no-pager |
Yes |
-i, --index |
No |
