Instantly fetches the lyrics of the currently playing spotify song, or any song, and displays it on a window.

A linux application with a very convinient GUI. Build with Python Gtk+3 (gi).

• Python 2/3

• Linux

• python-gi (PyGObject)

• AppIndicator3

• python-dbus

• requests

• beautifulsoup4

• lxml

First, install the requirements:

sudo apt install python-gi python-dbus gir1.2-appindicator3-0.1 python-requests python-bs4 python-lxml

(requests, lxml and bs4 can be install from pip also: pip install requests lxml beautifiulsoup4)

sudo pacman -S python2-dbus python2-requests python2-lxml python2-beautifulsoup4 python2-gobject libappindicator-gtk3

sudo dnf install dbus-python python-gobject libappindicator-gtk3 python2-requests python-beautifulsoup4 python2-lxml

After you've installed the dependencies, open terminal and go to the directory where you want to install. Enter the commands:

git clone https://github.com/bhrigu123/Instant-Lyrics.git

cd Instant-Lyrics/

python InstantLyrics.py

The icon will appear in the system tray (indicator panel). You can start using the application from there.

If you have installed from source, you can go to Preferences from the menu options, and click on the button Create Desktop Entry.

You should be able to see the Instant Lyrics application shortcut in your launcher menu.

You can also find several manual ways of doing so from the web.

Create an issue to discuss the changes/modifications before sending a PR.

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Copyright (c) 2017 Bhrigu Srivastava http://bhrigu.me

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