🎼 Genius Scraper

Everything about a song from Genius — lyrics, credits, samples, and the annotations behind the words.

Enter a song or artist and this Actor exports the complete picture of each track from Genius: full lyrics, producer & writer credits, album, release date, genres and stats, streaming links — and two things most scrapers miss: the samples & interpolations graph (who sampled what) and the crowd-sourced annotations that explain the lyrics.

🔓 No token, no login, no code. Type a song or artist and press Start.

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✨ Why you'll love it

• 🎤 Full lyrics — clean, complete and in order.
• 🎛️ Rich metadata — producers, writers, featured artists, album, release date, genres, pageviews and streaming links.
• 🔗 Samples & interpolations graph — every song this track samples, and every track that sampled, interpolated, covered or remixed it. Most Genius scrapers don't have this.
• 💡 Annotations included — the crowd-sourced explanation behind each line, with votes and author.
• 🔓 Works without a token — no API keys.
• 🧹 Clean, structured output — one row per song, spreadsheet-ready.

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👥 Who it's for

You are…	Use it to…
🎧 Music data / analyst	Build a dataset of songs with full metadata, credits and stats.
🎬 Music supervisor / clearance	Trace the samples and interpolations behind a track.
🤖 NLP / ML engineer	Get lyrics + explanations for training and research.
✍️ Writer / journalist	Pull credits, meaning and context behind songs.
🎓 Researcher / educator	Study lyrics, references and music-influence networks.

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⚡ Quick start

1. Open the Actor.
2. Enter one or more Songs (e.g. HUMBLE Kendrick Lamar, or a Genius URL) — or enter Artists to sweep their popular catalog.
3. Press Start, then open the Output tab to preview.
4. Hit Export → Excel / CSV / JSON, or send to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, or your app via API.

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🧩 Input options

🎵 Songs · songs

Song names (HUMBLE Kendrick Lamar), Genius song URLs, or song IDs.

🧑‍🎤 Artists · artists (optional)

Artist names to scrape each one's most popular songs.

🔢 Songs per artist · maxSongsPerArtist

How many of each artist's most popular songs to include.

🎤 Include lyrics · includeLyrics · 💡 Include annotations · includeAnnotations

Toggle the full lyrics and the crowd-sourced annotations on or off (both on by default).

🔢 Max songs · maxItems

Stop after this many songs. Set 0 for no limit.

🌐 Proxy · proxyConfiguration

Required — residential proxies are recommended for this Actor.

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🧪 Example inputs

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📤 Output

One row per song. Only the fields that exist are included.

📋 Field reference

Field	📖 Description
title · artist · url	🎼 Song, artist and Genius URL.
lyrics	🎤 Full lyrics text.
releaseDate	📅 Release date.
producers · writers · featuredArtists	🎛️ Credits.
album	💿 Album.
primaryGenre · tags	🏷️ Genre and all tags.
pageviews	👁️ Genius pageviews.
spotifyUrl · youtubeUrl · appleMusicUrl · soundcloudUrl	▶️ Streaming links.
description	ℹ️ The song's "About" description.
songRelationships	🔗 Samples, interpolations, covers, remixes, live versions and translations — each {type, title, artist, url}.
sampledInCount	How many tracks sampled this song.
annotationCount	Total annotations on the song.
annotations	💡 Array of {fragment, explanation, votes, author, authorIq}.

🎼 Sample row (trimmed)

{
  "title": "HUMBLE.",
  "artist": "Kendrick Lamar",
  "releaseDate": "2017-03-30",
  "producers": "Mike WiLL Made-It, Pluss",
  "album": "DAMN.",
  "primaryGenre": "Rap",
  "pageviews": 12318255,
  "spotifyUrl": "https://open.spotify.com/…",
  "lyrics": "[Intro]\nNobody pray for me…",
  "sampledInCount": 34,
  "songRelationships": [
    { "type": "samples", "title": "Pulsar City Alarm", "artist": "Adams & Fleisner" },
    { "type": "sampled_in", "title": "…", "artist": "…" }
  ],
  "annotations": [
    { "fragment": "Watch my soul speak…", "explanation": "…", "votes": 809, "author": "ChanLeigh" }
  ]
}

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💡 Use cases in detail

🔗 Trace a song's musical DNA The songRelationships field maps what a track samples and everything that sampled, interpolated, covered or remixed it — a directed influence graph for music supervision, clearance and musicology.

🎧 Build a rich music dataset Sweep an artist's catalog and export full lyrics, credits, genres, stats and streaming links in one structured table.

🤖 Lyrics + meaning for NLP Combine lyrics with their annotations to train or evaluate models on figurative language and reference resolution.

✍️ Documented context for content Pull credits, samples and the community's explanation of a song for articles and videos.

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🧠 Tips for best results

• 🎯 Include the artist in a song query for the right match.
• ⚡ Turn off annotations for a faster lyrics + metadata run.
• 🔗 The songRelationships field is where the samples/interpolations graph lives — most scrapers don't provide it.
• 🧹 Deduplication is automatic within each run.

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🔌 Export & integrations

⬇️ Excel · CSV · JSON · XML · 📊 Google Sheets & Airtable · 🔔 Webhooks & API · 🤖 Make, Zapier, n8n

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❓ FAQ

Do I need a token or account? — No. The Actor works without any login.

Do I get the samples/interpolations data? — Yes — the songRelationships field lists what a song samples and everything that sampled, interpolated, covered or remixed it.

Can I scrape a whole artist? — Yes. Use the Artists field and set Songs per artist.

Are annotations included? — Yes, when Include annotations is on: each is a lyric fragment paired with its explanation, votes and author.

Will I get duplicates? — No. Songs are deduplicated within each run.

Can I schedule it? — Yes, with Apify Schedules.

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⚖️ Legal & responsible use

This Actor collects publicly visible song information and community-contributed content for research, education and analysis. Lyrics and annotations are copyrighted and user-generated content; you are responsible for how you use the data, including compliance with applicable laws and platform terms, and you should not redistribute copyrighted content commercially without permission. Always respect the rights of creators and contributors.