Tools for working with the Genius (FKA Rap Genius) API.

• Genius Developers Site: https://genius.com/developers
• Genius API Docs: https://docs.genius.com/

Get the latest stable version from CRAN…

install.packages("geniusr")

…or install the development version from Github (recommended).

remotes::install_github("ewenme/geniusr")

1. Create a Genius API client
2. Generate a client access token from your API Clients page
3. Set your credentials in the System Environment variable GENIUS_API_TOKEN by calling the genius_token() function and entering your Genius Client Access Token when prompted.

Start with the basics!

library(geniusr)
library(dplyr)
library(tidytext)

# get lyrics
get_lyrics_search(artist_name = "Kanye West",
                  song_title = "Good Morning") %>% 
  # get lyric bigrams
  unnest_tokens(bigram, line, token = "ngrams", n = 2) %>%
  # look for good morning
  filter(bigram == "good morning") %>% 
  # count bigram frequency
  nrow()
#> [1] 18

• Get citation information for geniusr in R with citation(package = 'geniusr')
• Please note that the geniusr project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

• the genius package specialises in lyrics retrieval from Genius.