Spotlyrics

Spotlyrics connects to your Spotify account and delivers real-time, line-by-line lyrics for the current playback song.

Requirements

• Spotify account (free or premium)
• Spotify API credentials (get started here)
• A web browser currently logged into your account on the Spotify Web Player

Installation (manual)

git clone https://github.com/isaacmg00/spotlyrics
pip install -r requirements.txt

IN PROGRESS Installation (pip)

# not currently on PyPI
# pip install spotlyrics

Setup API Credentials for Spotlyrics

Once you have created a developer account, paste the CLIENT_ID & CLIENT_SECRET into a newly created .env file.

In the spotlyrics directory:

touch .env
echo CLIENT_ID="\"<YOUR CLIENT_ID>"\" >> .env
echo CLIENT_SECRET="\"<YOUR CLIENT_SECRET>"\" >> .env

Usage

In the spotlyrics directory, run python spotlyrics.py to start the interactive cli session.

Known issues:

• rewinding a playing song will freeze the program
• forwarding a playing song is not smooth
• when playing a song with no lyrics, spotlyrics will crash

TODO:

• add flag to print lyrics for the song and exit
• create pip package