cply

Search and copy lyrics from your terminal This version is a rewrite of my PHP script in Go

Requirements/Platforms

I only tested it on a ubuntu based distro but it work on all others including BSD and MacOS and Windows

Linux users need xclip or xsel to be installed for the copying to work

Wayland users need wl-clipboard

It should work on Termux but not tested.

Install

If you use a Linux based OS with amd64 architecture you can download a pre-build and min-sized binary from releases

First, generate an api token for the search functionality (required): https://genius.com/api-clients

Then, set it in the environment variable $CPLY_TOKEN which you should keep in your ~/.profile

To do that add: export CPLY_TOKEN=access_token_here to end of that file

changes to that file will only happen when you log out and log in againbut you can run source ~/.profile in the shell to test it

Finally just run this command

go install github.com/asvvvad/cply

Usage:

• cply song name and/or artist search for "song name and/or artist" and gives you results to select from (max. 10)

• • To select a song simply type its number in the input and press enter, to choose the first one press enter directly or:

• cply -first|-1 song name and/or artist search for "song name and/or artist" then fetch and copy the first result directly

• • This can be made default by setting the $CPLY_FIRST variable

• cply -print|-p song name and/or artist search for "song name and/or artist" print the lyrics instead of just copying

• • This can be made default by setting the $CPLY_PRINT variable
• • cply -print|-p -no-color|-n song name and/or artist print without highlighting (Making the [Chorus] ect yellow)
• • • This can be made default by setting the $CPLY_NOCOLOR variable

• cply -1 -p song name and/or artist search, select first result (if there is), copy it and print.

ASCIICAST

Modules used:

• tsirysndr/go-genius
• bigheadgeorge/lyrics/genius
• wzshiming/ctc
• atotto/clipboard