Search Genius for the current playing Spotify song.

lyricsearch.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import webbrowser
import dbus

session_bus = dbus.SessionBus()
spotify_bus = session_bus.get_object("org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify",
                                     "/org/mpris/MediaPlayer2")
spotify_properties = dbus.Interface(spotify_bus,
                                    "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties")
metadata = spotify_properties.Get("org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player", "Metadata")

# The property Metadata behaves like a python dict
#for key, value in metadata.items():
#    print key, value

song_name = metadata['xesam:title']

print "Searching " + song_name
webbrowser.open('http://genius.com/search?q=' + song_name)