Instant-Lyrics

Instantly fetches the lyrics of the currently playing spotify song, or any song, and displays it on a window.

A linux application with a very convinient GUI. Build with Python Gtk+3 (gi).

Screenshot

Working

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Compatibility

• Python 2/3

• Linux

Installation

From Source

Requirements

• python-gi (PyGObject)

• AppIndicator3

• python-dbus

• requests

• beautifulsoup4

• lxml

First, install the requirements:

For Ubuntu/Debian based systems:

sudo apt install python-gi python-dbus gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 python-requests python-bs4 python-lxml

(requests, lxml and bs4 can be install from pip also: pip install requests lxml beautifiulsoup4)

For Arch users

sudo pacman -S python2-dbus python2-requests python2-lxml python2-beautifulsoup4 python2-gobject libappindicator-gtk3

Fedora

sudo dnf install dbus-python python-gobject libappindicator-gtk3 python2-requests python-beautifulsoup4 python2-lxml

Install from source

After you've installed the dependencies, open terminal and go to the directory where you want to install. Enter the commands:

git clone https://github.com/bhrigu123/Instant-Lyrics.git

cd Instant-Lyrics/

python InstantLyrics.py

The icon will appear in the system tray (indicator panel). You can start using the application from there.

Creating a launcher shortcut

If you have installed from source, you can go to Preferences from the menu options, and click on the button Create Desktop Entry.

You should be able to see the Instant Lyrics application shortcut in your launcher menu.

You can also find several manual ways of doing so from the web.

Contribution

Create an issue to discuss the changes/modifications before sending a PR.

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The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 Bhrigu Srivastava http://bhrigu.me

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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