bchao1 / lyricsfinder

🎵 Tkinter-based desktop app for finding lyrics online.

lyricsfinder

A lightweight desktop application for lazy people who don't want to open a browser to download lyrics.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

You should first make sure the Internet is available, since all lyrics are retrieved from this site. Python 3.6.1 is used, and the following packages are needed:

bs4==0.0.1
requests==2.18.4
tkinter==8.6

You can install required packages using pip:

pip install bs4

Check the installed packages by typing:

pip freeze

For the tkinter module, first open a python shell and check its version by typing:

import tkinter
print(tkinter.TkVersion)

Installing

Go to the directory you wish to install lyricsfinder and type:

git clone https://github.com/Mckinsey666/lyricsfinder

You should then see a directory named lyricsfinder.

Running 'lyricsfinder'

Go to the directory, and type on the terminal:

python3 lyricsfinder.py

You should see the following interface

Type in the name of the song to search for its lyrics:

Select the song and download the lyrics!

Once you launch lyricsfinder, you should see a lyrics directory that contains the downloaded lyrics.

Authors

Brian Chao, National Taiwan University