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Genius Scraper

Genius Scraper

epctex/genius-scraper
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The Genius.com scraper extracts songs and lyrics from the platform. It fetches details from song, album, artist pages, supports tag-based retrieval, searches, and includes comments. Simplify accessing and analyzing music content from Genius.com.

The code examples below show how to run the Actor and get its results. To run the code, you need to have an Apify account. Replace <YOUR_API_TOKEN> in the code with your API token, which you can find under Settings > Integrations in Apify Console. Learn more

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1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4const client = new ApifyClient({
5    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
6});
7
8// Prepare Actor input
9const input = {
10    "startUrls": [
11        "https://genius.com/Fifty-fifty-cupid-twin-version-lyrics",
12        "https://genius.com/albums/Fifty-fifty/The-beginning-cupid",
13        "https://genius.com/artists/Drake",
14        "https://genius.com/tags/pop",
15        "https://genius.com/search?q=tiktok"
16    ],
17    "search": "rap",
18    "searchMode": "song",
19    "maxItems": 20,
20    "endPage": 1,
21    "extendOutputFunction": ($) => { return {} },
22    "customMapFunction": (object) => { return {...object} },
23    "proxy": {
24        "useApifyProxy": true
25    }
26};
27
28(async () => {
29    // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
30    const run = await client.actor("epctex/genius-scraper").call(input);
31
32    // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
33    console.log('Results from dataset');
34    console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
35    const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
36    items.forEach((item) => {
37        console.dir(item);
38    });
39})();
40
41// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs
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  • 10 monthly users
  • 100.0% runs succeeded
  • days response time
  • Created in Jun 2023
  • Modified about 17 hours ago