Note: I am completely new to YAML and have not yet grasped the concepts behind it. Therefore, my question might include some irrelevant content related to YAML. Please excuse me and feel free to correct any mistakes.
While using a music player (MusicBee), I came across a plugin that retrieves song lyrics. The process of fetching lyrics from a provider is described in a YAML file (yml). For instance, the lyrics from AZLyrics are fetched using the following yml file;
name: A-Z Lyrics Universe
url: "http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/{artist}/{title}.html"
extractor: '(?s)<div>\s+<!--\s+Usage.*?\s+-->(?P<lyrics>.+?)</div>'
headers:
- name: User-Agent
value: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0' # Firefox 30 Win x64 user agent
variables:
- &artist
name: artist
filters:
- [lowercase]
- [strip_nonascii]
- <<: *artist
name: title
filters:
- [strip_html]
- [trim]
- [utf8_encode]
The direct URL for the lyrics is provided as;
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/{artist}/{title}.html
However, the problem arises for me here. Instead of using the above link, I need to conduct a simple google search like this;
https://www.google.lk/search?q={artist}+{title}+azlyrics+lyrics
I want to extract the first URL from the search results and use it as the lyric URL.
Questions:
- Is YAML capable of handling the task I require?
- If yes, how can I achieve this? How do I handle Google search results?
- If not, could you provide any suggestions on what steps I should take to accomplish my goal?
Note: Here's the source code of the mentioned plugin.