LavaLyrics

LavaLyrics is a lyrics module for Lavaplayer and Lavalink. It allows registering different lyrics sources and handles fetching from said sources.

You can use this module with Lavaplayer or as a plugin for Lavalink v4.0.5 or higher. Other plugins can link into this module to provide additional lyrics sources.

Table of Contents

• Supported Sources
• Lavalink Usage
• Lavaplayer Usage
  • Using in Gradle:
  • Using in Maven:
  • Usage

Supported Sources

• LavaSrc (YouTube/YouTubeMusic, Deezer, Spotify, YandexMusic)
• Java Timed Lyrics (YouTube/YouTubeMusic, Genius)

Add your own

Lavalink Usage

This plugin requires Lavalink v4.0.5 or higher.

To install this plugin either download the latest release and place it into your plugins folder or add the following into your application.yml

Note For a full application.yml example see here

Replace x.y.z with the latest version number

lavalink:
  plugins:
    - dependency: "com.github.topi314.lavalyrics:lavalyrics-plugin:x.y.z"
    #  snapshot: false # set to true if you want to use snapshot builds (see below)

Snapshot builds are available in https://maven.lavalink.dev/snapshots with the short commit hash as the version

Configuration

The plugin can be configured in the application.yml file as follows:

(YES plugins IS AT ROOT IN THE YAML)

plugins:
  lavalyrics:
    # sources is used to sort the different lyrics sources by priority (from highest to lowest)
    sources:
      - spotify
      - youtube
      - deezer
      - yandexMusic

API

LavaLyrics provides a rest API to fetch lyrics for a given track. Fields marked with ? are optional and types marked with ? are nullable.

Common Types

Lyrics Object

Name	Type	Description
sourceName	string	The name of the source where the lyrics were fetched from
provider	string	The name of the provider the lyrics was fetched from on the source
text	?string	The lyrics text
lines	Array of LyricsLine	The lyrics lines
plugin	object	Additional plugin specific data

LyricsLine

Name	Type	Description
timestamp	int	The timestamp of the line in milliseconds
duration	int	The duration of the line in milliseconds
line	string	The lyrics line
plugin	object	Additional plugin specific data

Get current playing track lyrics

Gets the lyrics of the current playing track. By default, it will try to fetch the lyrics from where the track is sourced from. E.g. if the track is from Deezer it will try to fetch the lyrics from Deezer. You can disable this behavior by setting skipTrackSource to true.

GET /v4/sessions/{sessionId}/players/{guildId}/track/lyrics?skipTrackSource={skipTrackSource}

Query Params:

Name	Type	Description
skipTrackSource	boolean	Skip the current track source and fetch from highest priority source

Response:

200 OK: Lyrics Object

Example Payload

{
  "sourceName": "spotify",
  "provider": "MusixMatch",
  "text": null,
  "lines": [
    {
      "timestamp": 16770,
      "duration": null,
      "line": "Took a walk to the water at night",
      "plugin": {}
    },
    ...
    {
      "timestamp": 214480,
      "duration": null,
      "line": "",
      "plugin": {}
    }
  ],
  "plugin": {}
}

404 Not Found:

• If there is no track playing in the guild

204 No Content:

• If no lyrics were found

Get lyrics for a track

Gets the lyrics for a given encoded track. By default, it will try to fetch the lyrics from where the track is sourced from. E.g. if the track is from Deezer it will try to fetch the lyrics from Deezer. You can disable this behavior by setting skipTrackSource to true.

GET /v4/lyrics?track={encodedTrack}&skipTrackSource={skipTrackSource}

Query Params:

Name	Type	Description
track	string	The encoded track to fetch lyrics for
skipTrackSource	boolean	Skip the current track source and fetch from highest priority source

Response:

200 OK: Lyrics Object

Example Payload

{
  "sourceName": "spotify",
  "provider": "MusixMatch",
  "text": null,
  "lines": [
    {
      "timestamp": 16770,
      "duration": null,
      "line": "Took a walk to the water at night",
      "plugin": {}
    },
    ...
    {
      "timestamp": 214480,
      "duration": null,
      "line": "",
      "plugin": {}
    }
  ],
  "plugin": {}
}

204 No Content:

• If no lyrics were found

Lavaplayer Usage

Replace x.y.z with the latest version number

Snapshot builds are available in https://maven.topi.wtf/snapshots with the short commit hash as the version

Using in Gradle:

Gradle

repositories {
  maven {
    url "https://maven.topi.wtf/releases"
  }
}

dependencies {
  implementation "com.github.topi314.lavalyrics:lavalyrics:x.y.z"
}

Using in Maven:

Maven

<repositories>
  <repository>
    <url>https://maven.topi.wtf/releases</url>
  </repository>
</repositories>

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.topi314.lavalyrics</groupId>
    <artifactId>lavalyrics</artifactId>
    <version>x.y.z</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

Usage

Create new LyricsManager:

var lyricsManager = new LyricsManager();

// register your lyrics sources
lyricsManager.registerLyricsManager(source);

Basic and example usage:

var audioLyrics = lyricsManager.loadLyrics(AudioTrack, skipTrackSource);

Then you can do what you want with this:

List<AudioLyrics.Line> lines = audioLyrics.getLines();
if (lines != null) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        for (AudioLyrics.Line line : lines) {
          sb.append(line.getLine()).append("\n");
        }
}
System.out.println(sb); // Output: Line by line text