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Fetching song lyrics

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LyricWiki is an excellent free service providing song lyrics. A la wikipedia for song lyrics. One cool feature is that the site uses nuSOAP to provide a web services interface for fetching lyrics. Wrote a small PHP class with the help of WSF/PHP which will give a simpler interface. Grab it here (make sure to rename it to .php).

Here’s a few method calls,

Getting song of the day should be easy. getSOTD() method returns an array, song title, artist and the lyrics. Let’s just fetch the song and display only the lyrics.

<?php
require 'lyricwiki.php';
 
$lw = new LyricWiki();
 
$song = $lw->getSOTD();
 
print $song['lyrics'];
?>

Ok, let’s try to fetch lyrics of a song you know,

<?php
require 'lyricwiki.php'
 
$lw = new LyricWiki();
 
# parameters: artist and the song title
print $lw->getSong('iron & wine', 'boy with a coin');
 
?>

Written by Chintana

October 16th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

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  1. Hey! Awesome script :) Probably a bunch of ppl will find it helpful.

    … there was one small detail that might be nice to see different: since the site is named “LyricWiki” (the singluar “lyric” not plural “lyrics”), could the script possibly be changed to be LyricWiki instead of LyricsWiki.

    Sean

    16 Oct 08 at 9:02 pm

  2. @Sean: Absolutely! Sorry for the typo, just corrected it.

    Chintana

    21 Oct 08 at 3:46 am

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  4. You forgot to put the semicolon on “require ‘lyricwiki.php’”.

    Kevin López

    10 Feb 09 at 5:16 am

  5. @Kevin: doh, corrected. Thanks Kevin.

    Chintana

    14 Feb 09 at 2:17 pm

  6. I Receive

    Fatal error: Class ‘WSClient’ not found

    Andrea

    19 Jan 10 at 10:53 pm

  7. @Andrea: You have to have WSF/PHP installed. Get it from here – http://wso2.org/projects/wsf/php. Holler if you have any trouble installing it.

    Chintana

    20 Jan 10 at 8:03 am

  8. i love reading this article. Very good attribute to all info ive read.. //J

    Jimmy Eriksson

    4 Mar 10 at 7:38 pm

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