codekoch / ultimateguitar2bandhelper

Export multiple tabs (i.e. under mytabs) from Ultimate Guitar to Bandhelper in ChordPro format.

Requirements

• go is installed ("go version" should display the version)
• node js is installed

Convert multiple tabs from Ultimate Guitar into ChordPro format and import the resulting tabs into Bandhelper

1. Open https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/user/mytabs or any other website on Ultimate Guitar containing your favorites tabs
2. Mouse Rightclick -> Inspect -> Console -> Enter the following code:

// Create a variable for the links 
let links = document.querySelectorAll("a[href^='https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/']");
// A loop that iterates over the links 
for (let link of links) {
  // Get the URL of the link as a string 
  let url = link.href;
  // Find the number at the end of the URL with a regular expression 
  let nummer = url.match(/\d+$/)[0];
  // Output the number in the console 
  console.log(nummer);
}

The result should be similiar to this...

3. Copy the resulting numbers like "VM108:11 1689257" into ASCII File

4. Extract the interesting numbers in second column with

awk '{print $2 }' all.txt > numbers.txt

5. Run ./Ultimate2Chord.sh script

(This script does the following:

• scraping all tabs which match the numbers in numbers.txt from Ultimate Guitar into ASCII files
• convert tab format into ChordPro format
• deleting unneccessary characters like "-----"
• create zip of all tabs)

6. Import the zipped file into Bandhelper:

• Log into the website and go to the Repertoire > Documents or Repertoire > Recordings page.
• Click the Batch Import form at the top of the page, select your zip file and check the Add New Songs option.
• Click Submit. This will upload all the files, which could take several minutes depending on your Internet connection.

7. Done!

Used Gihub Projects

• https://github.com/Pilfer/ultimate-guitar-scraper (A Scraper for Ultimate Guitar tabs written in Go)
• https://github.com/martijnversluis/ChordSheetJS (A JavaScript library for parsing and formatting chord sheets)

This project was inspired by Bing using GPT4 ;-))

Disclaimer / Legal

This software's purpose is purely educational. I am not responsible for how you use this package. This repository and all others associated with it are not affiliated with, authorized, or endorsed by Ultimate-Guitar.com.