This is a python script that can scrape lyrics of all the songs by any artist from the web.
The project has two files :
- Songs Names Scraper.ipynb - This is responsible for creating a json file (Artists-Songs Mapping.json) that would have mapping from artist's name to all its available songs. http://www.song-list.net is used to scrape the songs list.
The artists for which the songs list need to be generated are specified in the artists array :
# artists list whose songs list is to be made
artists = ["edsheeran", "eminem", "taylorswift", "linkinpark", "drake-2"]
Add or remove artists in this array to get the required songs list.
- Lyrics Scraper.ipynb - This is responsible for actually fetching (scraping) the lyrics of all songs (specified in Artists-Songs Mapping.json) by a particular artist from web. https://www.azlyrics.com is used to scrape the lyrics.
Specify the artist in the code for which lyrics need to be scraped :
# artist for which the lyrics need to be written
artist = "eminem"
songs = songs_dict[artist]
processed_songs = []
Lyrics are saved in lyrics_scraped.txt
While scraping the web, keep in mind to not just make numerous requests to a website continuosly. It may be entirely possible to overburden the website's servers or you might get blocked, preventing further scraping. Try to scrape the content from web in a way as close as possible to how a normal user would copy and paste, in terms of the time required to gather this content.
To reinforce this, a delay is setup in the code that waits for 10 seconds after fetching one lyric.
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