Question

I found a lyrics API at http://www.lyrdb.com/services/lws-tech.php. It basically returns a set of results upon being queried. I am not well versed with PHP to be frank, but I have a clue about this somewhat, that the result set returned needs to be stored in a String variable and then the song ID extracted from it that the user clicks on, to retrieve the lyrics via the song ID.

Can anyone help me in scripting this please! Appreciate your help so much 🙂

Thanks.

Answer 1

No one can teach you PHP on SO. However to get you started you basically need two functions of PHP.

1. file_get_contents
2. split

Below is a sample code which will do this for you:

abhinavsingh@ubuntu:~$ cat lyrdb.php 
<?php

$res = file_get_contents("http://webservices.lyrdb.com/lookup.php?q=we%20are%20the%20champions&for=trackname&agent=agent");
//echo $res;
$res = split(PHP_EOL, $res);
//print_r($res);
foreach($res as $k=>$v) {
    $v = split("\\\\", $v);
    //print_r($v);
    $lyr = file_get_contents("http://webservices.lyrdb.com/getlyr.php?q=".$v[0]);
    //echo $lyr;
}

?>

This fetches lyrics for all the results returned from first query.
You might just want to do it on limited set of data.