Requirements

lyricsgenius (pip install lyricsgenius)

Lyricist

Generate your own lyrics!

The idea for this project comes from https://github.com/iluxonchik/lyricist. Though that project no longer works(presumably from Genius site changes breaking the scraping functionality) so I decided to create my own. It uses a Markov Chain to model text using bigrams (oh look at me sounding smart)

Usage

In order to download and generate lyrics, 2 files must be run.

download_songs.py and generate.py

usage: download_lyrics.py [-h] [--dir DIR] [-n N] artist

positional arguments:
  artist      Artist to download lyrics from

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  --dir DIR   Directory to download lyrics to (defaults to artist name)
  -n N        Number of songs to download (default: 10)

usage: generate.py [-h] [-n N] [-o O] file

This program allows you to generate lyrics based on lyrics scraped from Genius

positional arguments:
  file        File to use as source

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  -n N        Number of words to output (default 100)
  -o O        File to write output to (default: output.txt)

download_songs.py creates a '.txt' file with all of the lyrics downloaded. The name of the file defaults to the name of the artist (Ex: "Michael Jackson.txt"), but it can be specified using --dir

You then run generate.py using the file that was just created and it creates "output.txt" Example: python generate.py "Michael Jackson.txt"