Sponius (What it is)

• sponius is a CLI lyrics service which works with Spotify desktop app and genius.com
• SpoNius = Spotify + geNius

Sponius (How it works)

• Type sponius in terminal and instantly get the lyrics of what you're listening on spotify. BOOM!
• Type sponius <song title> by <song aritst> to search for a song's lyrics
• Or Type sponius -s <song title> -a <song artist>

Installation

1- clone the repository

• git clone https://github.com/mrtaalebi/sponius && cd sponius

2- You need python development headers to build some of the requirements and few other packages

• Linux:
  • Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt update && sudo apt install build-essential python-dev dbus python3-pip virtualenv build-essential python3-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgirepository1.0-dev
  • Arch sudo pacman -Sy base-devel dbus python-pip python-virtualenv
• macOs: (Currently doesn't support macOS)
  • Contribution is very pleased here!

3- Run install.sh

• ./install.sh

ToDo

• The lyrics search algorithm is very simple and can be improved
• Logging and incident reporting
• Lyrics can be printed in color

Bugs and Reports

• Please inform me if you see any bugs or had any bad experience using sponius
• You could contact me via email: the.doors.are.locked@gmail.com or twitter DM @mrtaalebi