Darklyrics support

[dakeryas]

Hello,

Is there any plan to support darklyrics as an additional source, after lyricsmania? Some lyrics are on the former but not on the later.

Perhaps I could help if I get some guidelines. I assume one needs to add a provider in utils.cpp and methods for parsing methods for darklyrics, but I am not familiar with that kind of parsing (does one parse HTML to extract the lyrics?). I assume darklyrics would come last in the queue of providers / fetching methods.

[loskutov]

I suppose the preferred way of adding lyrics sources is via a custom script, accessible through plugin settings.

[dakeryas]

Thanks for the reply!

Are you saying would one write in the Deadbeef config a value for: lyricbar.customcmd ./myprogram %artist% %title%

where one would have written his own independent myprogram to download and parse the lyrics from e.g. DarkLyrics and put them in ~/.cache/deadbeef/lyrics/ for the lyricbar plugin to find them as cached later on?

[loskutov]

myprogram should output lyrics to stdout, and the plugin will cache them in ~/.cache/deadbeef/lyrics/.

[dakeryas]

Thanks a lot for the explanations!

If other users are interested, it might be beneficial not to have everybody write its own copy of myprogram to parse DarkLyrics or other providers.

[dakeryas]

I have written a basic script which works perfectly from the command-line (where the lyrics are printed to stdout). And I have added the lyricbar.customcmd with its arguments in my DeaDBeeF configuration.

However, I still get "lyrics not found" in DeaDBeeF, am I supposed to do something additional?

The printing script print_darklyrics (which works and is in PATH):

#!/usr/bin/env zsh

declare -r BROWSER_EMULATION="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0"

function main(){

    (($# != 3)) && echo "Usage: print_darklyrics [artist] [album] [title]" && exit 1

    local artist=$1
    local album=$2
    local title=$3

    local link=www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/${artist:l:gs/ /}/${album:l:gs/ /}.html
    curl -s -A $BROWSER_EMULATION $link | awk -v title=$title '/^<h3>|<div/&&lyrics{lyrics=0}
                                                                lyrics{gsub(/(<\/?\w+)?(\s+\/)?>/,"");print}
                                                                $0~title&&/^<h3>/{lyrics=1}'

}

main $@

And the ~/.config/deadbeef/config bit:

lyricbar.customcmd print_darklyrics %artist% %album% %title%

[loskutov]

Perhaps the issue is whitespace? Try "%artist%" "%album%" "%title%".

[dakeryas]

You got it spot on, it is great that it works!