Musix Match

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| || || || |    MusixMatch is a wrapper for the musixmatch.com API's. | || || || |
| || || || |  With this library you can search for lyrics and tracks  | || || || |
| |  || || |        using the http://musixmatch.com service.          | |  || || |
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Installation

gem install musix_match

Usage

require 'musix_match'

MusixMatch::API::Base.api_key = 'YOUR_API_KEY'

Track search

response = MusixMatch.search_track(:q_artist => 'Pantera')
if response.status_code == 200
  response.each do |track|
    puts "#{track.track_id}: #{track.track_name} (#{track.artist_name})"
  end
end

Available options for the search_track methods are:

  • q: a string that will be searched in every data field

  • q_track: string to be searched among tracks titles

  • q_artist: string to be searched among artists names

  • page: requested page of results

  • page_size: desired number of items per result page

  • f_has_lyrics: exclude tracks without an available lyrics

Getting lyrics

response = MusixMatch.get_lyrics(track_id)
if response.status_code == 200 && lyrics = response.lyrics
  puts lyrics.lyrics_body
end

Getting track

response = MusixMatch.get_track(track_id)
if response.status_code == 200 && track = response.track
  puts "#{track.track_name} (#{track.artist_name})"
  puts "Lyrics id: #{track.lyrics_id}"
end

Are you feeling lucky?

puts MusixMatch.i_m_feeling_lucky("Guns'n'Roses - Welcome to the jungle")

Lyrics

The Lyrics object has the following attributes:

  • lyrics_id

  • lyrics_body

  • lyrics_language

  • script_tracking_url

  • lyrics_copyright

  • track_name

  • artist_name

Track

The track object has the following attributes:

  • track_id

  • track_mbid

  • track_name

  • track_mbid

  • track_length

  • lyrics_id

  • instrumental

  • subtitle_id

  • artist_id

  • artist_mbid

  • artist_name

  • artist_mbid

  • album_name

  • album_id

  • album_coverart_100x100

Sending Feedback

MusixMatch.post_feedback(track_id, lyrics_id, feedback_type)

Feedback type should be one of the following:

  • wrong_attribution (the lyrics shown are not by the artist that I selected.)

  • bad_characters (there are strange characters and/or words that are partially scrambled.)

  • lines_too_long (the text for each verse is too long!)

  • wrong_verses (there are some verses missing from the beginning or at the end.)

  • wrong_formatting (the text looks horrible, please fix it!)

Author

Andrea Franz - gravityblast.com