Works on top of a spotify script (gets current song) and is used to pull lyrics for current playing song from Genius (API & Web Scrape)

genius_api_helper.py

import requests
import os
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

# The below gist is where this file lives
#https://gist.github.com/jbarton311/df1f5e876ff97eb848a41edcbdcb5e6c
import spotify_pulls as sp

# Local file that contains API keys and secrets
from config import Config

def genius_api_song(artist, song):

    headers = {'Authorization': f'Bearer {SECRET_KEY'}

    params = (
        ('q', f'{song}'),
    )

    response = requests.get('http://api.genius.com/search', params=params, headers=headers)
    data = response.json()

    return data

def extract_genius_data(artist, song):

    data = genius_api_song(artist, song)

    for hit in data['response']['hits']:
        if str(hit['result']['primary_artist']['name']) == artist:
            location = hit['result']['path']
            return f"http://genius.com{location}"

def scrape_lyrics(url):
    if url:
        page = requests.get(url)
        html = BeautifulSoup(page.text, "html.parser")
        #remove script tags that they put in the middle of the lyrics
        [h.extract() for h in html('script')]
        #at least Genius is nice and has a tag called 'lyrics'!
        #lyrics = html.find("div", class_="lyrics").get_text() #updated css where the lyrics are based in HTML
        lyrics = html.find("div", class_="lyrics") #updated css where the lyrics are based in HTML
        return lyrics
    else:
        return "Sorry - couldn't find lyrics on Genius"

def genius_lyrics(artist, song):
    url= extract_genius_data(artist, song)
    if url:
        lyrics = scrape_lyrics(url)

        # Replace relative links to absolute links back to Genius
        for a in lyrics.findAll('a'):
            a['href'] = a['href'].replace("/", "genius.com/")
        return lyrics
    else:
        return "No lyrics provided by Genius"

def playing_now_lyrics():
    # Pull current track playing from spotify
    current_playing = sp.current_track_data()

    artist = current_playing['artist']
    song = current_playing['song']

    # Pass artist and song to grab lyrics from Genius
    lyrics = genius_lyrics(artist, song)

    return lyrics