[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #4479: Add Lyrics visualization to MythMusic

Rob Smith kormoc at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 19:12:32 UTC 2008


On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Petr Stehlik <pstehlik at sophics.cz> wrote:
>  I had a quick look at two or three different scripts for grabbing the
>  lyrics and they all seem to use the same method - pass the song name to
>  google.com, sometimes with " lyrics" added to the query... Then they try
>  to parse the html output somehow.

For what is it worth, Amarok uses scripts to sites like these:
http://lyriki.com/
http://letras.terra.com.br/
http://www.leoslyrics.com/

and lots more. Not sure if they'd allow us to do the same, but might
be worth looking into rather then scraping google


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