Open the current playing song on Spotify on Genius.com

01-README.md

To use this in Alfred create a new workflow and then create a new action Run NSAppleScript and paste in the below script.

Note: If you want to run this on the CLI you can remove the on alfred_script(q) and end alfred_script and add #!/usr/bin/env osascript as the first line to run it from the CLI.

See http://sanitarium.se/blog/2024/04/15/day-to-day-automation-using-alfred/#spotify-controller for more context.

There are a couple of different things going on in the pipeline to open the browser:

• sed -E 's|([ ]+)|-|g'
  • Replace spaces with -
• iconv -f 'utf-8' -t 'ASCII//TRANSLIT'
  • Convert any non-ASCII characters to their most direct ASCII counterpart. For example, Björn becomes Bjorn and not the localized Bjoern
• sed -E 's|[^a-zA-Z0-9-]||g'
  • Remove any characters not matching that regex. [^] means anything not in this group

open-current-playing-spotify-song-on-genius.osa

on alfred_script(q)

set newline to "
	"

tell application "System Events"
	set MyList to (name of every process)
end tell
if (MyList contains "Spotify") is true then
	tell application "Spotify"
		set track_name to name of current track
		set track_artist to artist of current track
		set track_album to album of current track
	end tell
	
	do shell script "open \"http://genius.com/$(echo '" & quoted form of track_artist & "-" & quoted form of track_name & "' | sed -E 's|([ ]+)|-|g' | iconv -f 'utf-8' -t 'ASCII//TRANSLIT' | sed -E 's|[^a-zA-Z0-9-]||g')-lyrics\""
	
end if

end alfred_script