Get Lyrics from Genius (Direct API + Simple Scraping)

Retrieves song lyrics by directly calling the Genius API and scraping lyrics from the Genius website using rvest's html_text2().

Usage

get_lyrics(artist, song, access_token = NULL)

Arguments

artist

Character string of artist name

song

Character string of song title

access_token

Genius API token. If NULL, uses GENIUS_API_TOKEN env var

Value

A list of class "lyrics_lab" containing:

• lyrics - Character vector of lyrics (one element per line)

• metadata - List with song info

• structure - Data frame with detected sections

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Set your token first
Sys.setenv(GENIUS_API_TOKEN = "your_token_here")

# Get lyrics
lyrics <- get_lyrics(artist = "Taylor Swift", song = "Anti-Hero")
} # }