Lyrics

Get the lyrics to songs right in your terminal.

CLI

• lyrics to display the lyrics of the currently playing song on Spotify
• lyrics "The Beatles - Blackbird" for getting lyrics for a specific song
• lyrics "Can't you see im trying" for finding the song based on it's lyrics
• lyrics --watch to stay open and update the lyrics when you get to the next song
  • Alternatively -w, --continuous, or -c
• lyrics --version to get the current version
  • Alternatively -v
• lyrics --help to show what commands are available
  • Alternatively -h

Support

This script should support Linux, MacOS and Windows. Color highlighting is unfortunately not supported on Windows (you're welcome to add this in a pull request 😀 ).

Installation

Requirements

Requires Python 3 with pip installed.

Dependencies

Install the packages from the requirement.txt document with pip:

$ pip install -r ./requirements.txt --user

Execute from anywhere

Then you can add a link to your bin so the lyrics can be executed from anywhere in the terminal:

$ ln -s ./lyrics/__main__.py /usr/local/bin/lyrics.

(The /usr/local/bin path will have to be in your $PATH variable)