# johnwmillr/LyricsGenius

Download song lyrics and metadata from Genius.com 🎶🎤

Repository: https://github.com/johnwmillr/LyricsGenius
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/lyricsgenius
Homepage: http://www.johnwmillr.com/scraping-genius-lyrics/
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: genius-lyrics, genius-api, song-lyrics, lyrics, scraping-lyrics, download-lyrics, python
Last push: 2026-07-25T04:09:51+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 69/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 94, release rhythm 18, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3344, "days_push": 39, "days_rel": 391, "gap_med": 113.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1121, forks 183 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:39.730990+00:00)

## What it is
A Python client library that wraps the Genius.com API and scrapes song lyrics, artist, and album metadata. It provides simple search and download methods and can save results as JSON.

## Use cases
- download song lyrics from genius
- scrape lyrics for a dataset
- fetch song metadata via genius api
- download all songs by an artist
- build a lyrics analysis dataset
- search albums and save lyrics to json

## When to choose
- you need programmatic access to Genius.com lyrics and metadata in Python
- you want to bulk-download an artist's discography for analysis
- you want a maintained wrapper handling Genius API auth and lyric scraping

## When to avoid
- you need lyrics from sources other than Genius.com
- you need a non-Python client
- your project cannot comply with Genius.com terms of service for scraping

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: http-client, web-scraping, sdk
- domain: apis, media, data-science, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli
- tags: genius-api, lyrics, music-metadata, api-wrapper, scraping

## Member repositories
- johnwmillr/LyricsGenius (main) score 69

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:39.730990+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:41:00.856282+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/johnwmillr/LyricsGenius (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:39.730990+00:00, sha a18a205d0853)
  - homepage: http://www.johnwmillr.com/scraping-genius-lyrics/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:44:57.040281+00:00, sha b3523b844d99)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/lyricsgenius/json (fetched 2026-08-29T12:44:57.043072+00:00, sha 2ffff6e12fb7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.