AZLyrics scraper

Box folder URL | Static repo website | Kaggle dataset

🎵 AZLyrics scraper for getting all the song lyrics and publishing to Box.

Python requirements

This project is using Python3. All these requirements have been specified in the requirements.lock file.

Requests: used for retrieving the HTML content of a website.
BeautifulSoup: used for scraping an HTML content.
Tor: used for making requests anonymous using other IPs.
Stem: used for authentificating every request with a different IP.
Fake User-Agent: used for using random User-Agent's for every request.
Unidecode: used for cleaning strings from weird characters.
Box SDK: used for uploading/downloading files to/from Box Cloud Storage.

Recommendations

Usage of virtualenv is recommended for package library / runtime isolation.

Usage

To run this script, please execute the following from the root directory:

Setup virutal environment
Install dependencies
```
pip3 install -r requirements.lock
```
Move JWT configuration file from Box API
Install Tor browser
Configure Tor IP renewal editting /etc/tor/torrc file
```
ControlPort 9051
CookieAuthentication 1
```
Restart Tor browser
```
sudo service tor restart
```
Run the script
```
python3 -m src
```

JWT configuration

In order to use Box Cloud Storage API in a secure way, this project is configured for using their service with the JWT authentication. After following the tutorial, we will obtain a configuration file which will have to be located under data folder with the name of jwt_config.json as the __init__.py configuration file says:

# Box integration
BOX_CONFIG_FILE_PATH = 'data/jwt_config.json'

Authors

Albert Suàrez

AlbertSuarez / azlyrics-scraper

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