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# Sign up for a free account at Genius.com to access the API
# http://genius.com/api-clients
client_access_token = 'CLIENT_ACCESS_TOKEN'


    

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# Let's take a look at how we might search for an artist using the Genius API.
import requests
import urllib2

# Format a request URL for the Genius API
search_term = 'Andy Shauf'
_URL_API = "https://api.genius.com/"
_URL_SEARCH = "search?q="
querystring = _URL_API + _URL_SEARCH + urllib2.quote(search_term)
request = urllib2.Request(querystring)
request.add_header("Authorization", "Bearer " + client_access_token)
# request.add_header("User-Agent","curl/7.9.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl 7.9.8 (OpnSSL 0.9.6b) (ipv6 enabled)")
request.add_header("User-Agent", "")


    

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# Now that we’ve formatted the URL, we can make a request to the database.
import json
response = urllib2.urlopen(request, timeout=3)
raw = response.read()
json_obj = json.loads(raw)


    

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# The JSON object is just a normal python dictionary
json_obj.viewkeys()


    

    
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dict_keys([u'meta', u'response'])

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# The 'hits` key stores info on each song in the search result.
# From here it's easy to grab the song title, album, etc.

# List each key contained within a single search hit
[key for key in json_obj['response']['hits'][0]['result']]


    

    
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[u'song_art_image_thumbnail_url',
 u'api_path',
 u'stats',
 u'lyrics_state',
 u'title',
 u'pyongs_count',
 u'lyrics_owner_id',
 u'url',
 u'full_title',
 u'title_with_featured',
 u'header_image_thumbnail_url',
 u'path',
 u'primary_artist',
 u'annotation_count',
 u'id',
 u'header_image_url']

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# View the song name for each search hit
[song['result']['title'] for song in json_obj['response']['hits']]


    

    
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[u'The Magician',
 u'Wendell Walker',
 u"You're Out Wasting",
 u'To You',
 u'Quite Like You',
 u'Early to the Party',
 u'Twist Your Ankle',
 u'The Worst In You',
 u'Hometown Hero',
 u'Lick Your Wounds']

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# URL to artist image
print(json_obj['response']['hits'][0]['result']['primary_artist']['image_url'])


    

    




https://images.genius.com/16423bad48ffd400aac3ba86d5b86ed4.850x850x1.jpg

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# If you have an artist or song ID, you can access that entry 
# directly by reformatting the request URL.
song_id = 82926
querystring = "https://api.genius.com/songs/" + str(song_id)
request = urllib2.Request(querystring)
request.add_header("Authorization", "Bearer " + client_access_token)
request.add_header("User-Agent", "")
response = urllib2.urlopen(request, timeout=3)
raw = response.read()
json_obj = json.loads(raw)
print((json_obj['response']['song']['title'],\
       json_obj['response']['song']['primary_artist']['name']))


    

    




(u'All I Want', u'Joni Mitchell')

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from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import re
URL = 'https://genius.com/Andy-shauf-the-magician-lyrics'
page = requests.get(URL)    
html = BeautifulSoup(page.text, "html.parser") # Extract the page's HTML as a string

# Scrape the song lyrics from the HTML
lyrics = html.find("div", class_="lyrics").get_text().encode('ascii','ignore')
# lyrics = re.sub('\[.*\]','',lyrics) # Remove [Verse] and [Bridge] stuff
# lyrics = re.sub('\n{2}','',lyrics)  # Remove gaps between verses        
# lyrics = str(lyrics).strip('\n')
print(lyrics[:150]+'...')


    

    





[Verse 1]
Do you find
It gets a little easier each time you make it disappear?
Oh fools, the magician bends the rules
As the crowd watches his every...

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# Create an instance of the API interface
import genius
api = genius.Genius()


    

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# Search for an artist
artist = G.search_artist('Andy Shauf', max_songs=5)
print(artist)


    

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# Search for a specific song
song = G.search_song('Wendell Walker', artist.name)
artist.add_song(song)
print(artist)
print(artist.songs[0])