Comments on: Lyricwiki.org API ban workaround

By: Brendan Cazier

Brendan Cazier — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:21:28 +0000

I was looking for an automated solution to solving my obsession with having lyrics for all my songs, and I came to your site very quickly. However, it seems that now LyricWiki doesn’t even let you copy lyrics from the song page on their actual website. So that meant that I couldn’t use your wonderful script.

However, I was thinking, what if instead of going to the regular page, you directed your script to the “Edit” page for the song?
So for example, if I want to access the lyrics to the song “I Want You to Want Me” by Cheap Trick, I would have gone to:
http://lyrics.wikia.com/Cheap_Trick:I_Want_You_To_Want_Me

However, the way the page is set up now, I can’t even highlight the lyrics there. BUT! If I click the “Edit” button at the top, it takes me to the following page:
http://lyrics.wikia.com/index.php?title=Cheap_Trick:I_Want_You_To_Want_Me&action=edit

From there I can actually highlight the text in the text box and copy-paste it into my iTunes.

Unfortunately, I have very little experience with Ruby, and don’t really know what I would do to modify your script myself. Do you think it would be possible to implement this into your script?

Thanks!
Brendan

By: dade

dade — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:57:24 +0000

Jack, I dont’ think that is possible directly with ruby. However the applescript wrapper for the script is really a no-brainer:

set result to do shell script "ruby /Users/dade/Projects/massiveLyrics/MassiveLyrics.rb" display dialog result

you will have to fill in the right path to your ruby script instead of mine, and you’re done. The only drawback is that you dont’ get progress information as the lyrics are updated, but only a messagebox in the end.

By: Jack Slater

Jack Slater — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:07:27 +0000

Aha! Works now! :) Wonderful piece of code!

How about wrapping it the way it can be thrown to $HOME/Library/iTunes/Scripts and executed from there? Will be really handy!

By: dade

dade — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:24:24 +0000

I am so sorry. I dont’know what happened to my attachment plugin. Now it’s fixed. I double checked 3 times now :)
Thanks for your patience!!!

By: Jack Slater

Jack Slater — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:02:52 +0000

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You tried going to http://www.creamdesign.it/blog/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/MassiveLyrics.rb, and it doesn’t exist. All is not lost! You can search for what you’re looking for.

:-Q

By: dade

dade — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:36:14 +0000

Sorry, there was some error in the wp plugin I use to display attachments. Now it’s fixed. Thank you for pointing out the error!

By: Jack Slater

Jack Slater — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:35:59 +0000

Call me blind like a mole, but I cant find it anywhere here :-Q
Tried to read all blog entries with 10x magnifying glass!

By: dade

dade — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:26:09 +0000

The script has been fixed and packaged as a platypus app! Enjoy :)

By: Jack Slater

Jack Slater — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:25:52 +0000

I was googling for a workaround for this Lyricwiki issue and stumbled upon your blog :)

Good job, mate, hope you’ll fix it in foreseeable future and put the script online! Will be checking this page for any progress! Ciao!

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Fill the lyrics of your entire iTunes library in one click. | >dade — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:16:44 +0000

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