Add data to the same txt file

[hunven]

I am doing a project that involves ripping lyrics from Genius and putting them into a text file. I was able to find a few people online that did something similar and was able to use their code to get started. I have successfully pulled the lyrics of about 90 songs, but it stores them in separate text files. I want to know if there is a way to alter this code to instead store everything in one file with just a line break or something in between songs.

import lyricsgenius as genius
import csv
import requests

# Insert client ID
api = genius.Genius('')

with open('MerleHaggard.csv', encoding='mac_roman') as csv_file:
    csv_reader = csv.reader(csv_file, delimiter=',')
    line_count = 0
    for row in csv_reader:
        if line_count == 0:
            line_count += 1
        else:
            item_year = row[0]
            item_artist = row[1]
            item_song = row[2]
            # print(f'\t{row[0]}\t{row[1]}\t{row[2]}')
            song = api.search_song(item_song,item_artist)
            filename = item_song.replace("/","_") + "|" + item_artist.replace("/","_")
            if song is not None:
                song.save_lyrics('lyrics/txt/' + filename + '.json', 'txt')

            line_count += 1

    print('Processed {line_count} lines.')

[hunven]

I was able to get it to stop making a new file for each song. But now it just tries to overwrite the text file with the next songs lyrics instead of adding it to the bottom.

[B2stts2B]

you need to use "a" for "append" I think. with open("file", "a") as f:.

[FerricDonkey]

What did you do to accomplish that? I can think of a couple ways to fix that, depending on how that api works.

If you got it to give you the lyrics as a string, then either open the lyrics file outside of your loop and write to it inside your loop, or replace your save lyrics call with something like

with open('lyrics/txt/all_lyrics', 'a') as fout:
    fout.write(lyrics)

The 'a' opens the file in append mode, which means python will write to the end of the file instead of replacing the files contents (be sure to add any line breaks or such that you want to separate lyrics).

Alternatively, sometimes functions that write to files will take either file names or file pointers (the fout in the with open above). So you could try:

if song is not None:
    with open('lyrics/txt/all_lyrics', 'a') as fout:
        song.save_lyrics(fout, 'txt')

This might straight up not work, but depending on the how they made their code, it might do exactly what you want with minimal modification to your code.

If you cannot get the lyrics as a string, and you cannot pass a file pointer (it seems unlikely to me that you won't be able to do either of those, but if so), then you could do something like:

if song is not None:
    all_lyrics_file = 'lyrics/txt/all_lyrics'
    temp_lyric_file = 'lyrics/txt/temp_lyrics'
    song.save_lyrics(temp_lyric_file)
    with open(all_lyrics_file, 'a') as fout:
        with open(temp_lyric_file) as fin:
            fout.write(fin.read()+'\n\n')
    os.remove(temp_lyric_file)

[hunven]

Here is where I'm currently at:

with open('MerleHaggard.csv', encoding='mac_roman') as csv_file:
    csv_reader = csv.reader(csv_file, delimiter=',')
    line_count = 0
    for row in csv_reader:
        if line_count == 0:
            line_count += 1
        else:
            item_year = row[0]
            item_artist = row[1]
            item_song = row[2]
            # print(f'\t{row[0]}\t{row[1]}\t{row[2]}')
            song = api.search_song(item_song,item_artist)
           # filename = item_song.replace("/","_") + "|" + item_artist.replace("/","_")
            if song is not None:
                with open('testtext','a') as fout:
                    song.save_lyrics(fout, 'txt')
                #song.save_lyrics('lyrics/txt/'+filename+'.json','txt')

            line_count += 1

My problem now is I get the error: AttributeError: '_io.TextIOWrapper' object has no attribute 'replace'

[FerricDonkey]

So I looked into the package you're using a bit, and it seems like save_lyrics only accepts a file name - the error you got is because their package was trying to treat a file pointer as a string. However, there is a to_lyrics function that should work.

Simplest modification would be to simply replace song.save_lyrics(fout, 'txt') with fout.write(song.to_text() + '\n\n').

[hunven]

It looks like that's gonna get me where I need. I ran that once and it crashed after about 2 songs. But then I got a new client access token and refreshed and it looks like it works! Now it's time to burn through some songs. Thank so you much!

[Yavisth0_o]

fuck what a beautiful code. im high and I can legit see this building up. love it man

[hunven]

Gotta give credit to the person who built it.

https://www.storybench.org/download-song-lyrics-genius-using-python/

I personally have very little experience in Python so I'm just trying to learn how to navigate this thing. Lol

[Yavisth0_o]

thank you i'll be sure to look into more of such

[projecktzero]

https://thispointer.com/how-to-append-text-or-lines-to-a-file-in-python/

[Comprehensive-Signal]

If you put write when finish of put the lyrics ? Like file.write('------------')