pylyrical_api - lyrics API scraping from genius.com

To self-host, you need to get an API token from the api client page. You can then add the API token to a ".env" file. Example: GENIUS_API_TOKEN="T0K3N"

• API endpoint: /lyrics
• Acceptable parameters: q
  • Example: /lyrics?q=how+do+i+make+you+love+me+the+weeknd

Responses

• 200

{
    "artists": "",
    "lyrics": "",
    "source": "",
    "status": "200",
    "title": ""
}

• 400

{
    "exception":
    "NoParameter",
    "message": "Missing parameter 'q'.",
    "status": "400"
}

• 404

{
    "exception": "NoResults",
    "message": "'' did not give any results, Please try a different term.",
    "status": "404"
}

• 500

{
    "exception": "ScrapeError",
    "message": "",
    "status": "500"
}

• 502

{
    "exception": "RequestConnectionError",
    "message": "",
    "status": "502"
}

• NoParameter: Occurs when no parameter was given.
  • Returns status code 400.
• NoResults: Occurs when no results were found.
  • Returns status code 404.
• ScrapeError: Occurs when pylyrical cannot scrape lyrics from genius.com
  • Returns status code 500.
• RequestConnectionError: Occurs when pylyrical cannot send a request to genius.com
  • Returns status code 502.