🎵 Genius Lyrics Scraper

🚀 Export song metadata and lyrics from Genius in seconds. Search any artist, song title, or keyword and get structured data including lyrics, annotations, page views, and release dates - ready to download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

The Genius Lyrics Scraper lets you extract structured song data from Genius.com, the world's largest song lyrics and music knowledge database. Every record contains the song title, artist, URL, release date, annotation count, page views, featured artists, and optionally the full lyrics text - all pulled from Genius's live data in real time.

The dataset covers all artists and genres available on Genius - from hip-hop and pop to rock, country, and classical. Whether you need a handful of records for a quick project or millions of entries for large-scale NLP training, the scraper handles it.

Target Audience / Use Cases

Who	What They Need
Music researchers	Metadata and lyrics for corpus analysis
NLP / ML engineers	Lyric text for language model training data
Data journalists	Artist popularity signals (pageviews, annotations)
Playlist curators	Release dates and featured artist mapping
Music educators	Annotated lyrics and song breakdowns
Fans and bloggers	Complete song metadata for any artist

📋 What the Genius Lyrics Scraper does

• Search Genius by artist name, song title, or any keyword
• Returns song title, artist, Genius URL, release date, annotation count, and page view stats
• Optionally fetches full lyrics for each song (one extra request per song)
• Extracts featured artist lists
• Paginates automatically to collect as many results as needed
• Limits free users to 10 items; paid users can extract up to 1,000,000

💡 Why it matters: Genius has over 5 million annotated songs - the richest publicly available source of lyrics, artist metadata, and crowd-sourced music knowledge on the internet.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: albumName, annotationCount, artist, featuredArtists, imageUrl, lyrics, pageviews, releaseDate, results, scrapedAt, title, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

⚠️ Good to Know: When includeLyrics is enabled, the scraper makes one additional HTTP request per song to fetch the lyrics page. For large datasets, this significantly increases runtime. For metadata-only use cases, leave includeLyrics set to false.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account w/ $5 credit
2. Open the Genius Lyrics Scraper actor page
3. Enter your search query (artist name, song title, or keywords)
4. Choose whether to include lyrics
5. Set maxItems (10 for free, up to 1,000,000 for paid)
6. Click Start and wait for the run to complete
7. Download your dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

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⚠️ Disclaimer: This actor is an independent tool, not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Genius. It accesses only publicly available data. Use responsibly and in accordance with Genius's terms of service.

🆘 Need Help?

If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.

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