On 2010-08-05 Anurag Priyam wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I would like to have vicious's mpd widget fetch lyrics that can be displayed
> in the tooltip to the mpd widget.
>
> I was able to fetch lyrics from lyrics wiki and display it in tooltip.
> However, lyrics wiki's API does not return full lyrics( 1/7th to be precise
> ) of a song and scraping is not permitted.
>
> What other possible solutions can I look at?
>
I use the following bash-snipplet
urlartist=`mpc --format "%artist%" | head -n1| \
sed -e "s/ /+/g; s/&/&/g"`
urltitle=`mpc --format "%title%" | head -n1| \
sed -e "s/ /+/g; s/&/&/g"`
lynx -dump -nolist \
"http://www.lyricsplugin.com/winamp03/plugin/?artist=$urlartist&title=$urltitle";
Matthias
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