For instructions on how to use recipes as well as pointers to other structured sites to use for word list building, see the recipes home page.

To get list of URLs of songs by an artist

We suggest alphabetizing the list to look for duplicates or similar titles. For instance, often the same song will appear both in its studio and live versions with essentially the same lyrics: there is probably no reason to grab the text from both. You can use this list of URLs to get all the lyrics by an artist using the last recipe on this page.

--webpage http://www.songlyrics.com/[artist]-lyrics/ --container class=tracklist=1 --webextract links --alphabetize

To get list of songs

The options below will get you a list of songs with spaces removed between words for long entries like “MARYJANESLASTDANCE”. To get the song titles converted into a word list (e.g., “MARY”, “JANES”, “LAST”, “DANCE”), replace line2word with word2word.

--webpage http://www.songlyrics.com/[artist]-lyrics/ --container class=tracklist=1 --webextract text --line2word

To get song lyrics

Use the recipe below to get the lyrics from a single song.

--webpage http://www.songlyrics.com/[artist]/[song-name]-lyrics/ --container id=songLyricsDiv --webextract text --word2word

To get the lyrics from all songs by an artist, run the first recipe to get a file with a list of URLs and then use the recipe below.

--urllist [urlfile.txt] --container id=songLyricsDiv --webextract text --word2word

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