Start local server:
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Template documentation
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Use Mustache for rendering HTML templates from JSON files
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Structure of JSON file
- title: string with title of the song
- artist: string with the artist of the song
- allChords: array of strings of all chords in the song ex: ['Am', 'F', 'C', 'G']
- lines: array of JSON objects for each chord-lyric pair in the song
- count: id of the pair, used for jQuery selectors
- chord: string with the chords + white spaces
- lyrics: string with the lyrics
- label: string with label of the section i.e. "Chorus", "Verse 1"
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Python script parser.py makes it easy to generate the JSON files
- readURL(url): helper function to scrape HTML of a URL
- toText(url): URL of a song --> text file of a song
- allToText(): all songs URLs in urls.text --> all text files of songs
- isLabel(line): helper function to check whether a line is "Verse", "Chorus", etc.
- toJSON(fileName): text file of a song --> JSON file of a song
- allToJSON(): all song text files in /text --> all JSON files in /json
- addSong(url): URL of a song --> text files and JSON file of a song