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Scrape artist lyrics and sort by theme

To scrape artist lyrics and sort them by theme, follow this step-by-step process using Python and appropriate libraries:


1. Web Scraping Setup

Libraries Needed:

bash
pip install requests beautifulsoup4 nltk sklearn

Import libraries:

python
import requests from bs4 import BeautifulSoup import os import re import nltk from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer from sklearn.cluster import KMeans nltk.download('punkt') nltk.download('stopwords')

2. Function to Scrape Lyrics

Here’s an example function using Genius.com (you’ll need a Genius API key or parse web pages carefully if no API is used):

python
def scrape_lyrics(artist_name, num_songs=10): base_url = "https://genius.com" search_url = f"https://genius.com/api/search/multi?per_page=5&q={artist_name}" headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla
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