liblyric -- first ideas.
Dhruv Matani
This is a new project I want to get my hands dirty with. It's called
liblyric. The aim is to get a library(liblyric) which has an
interface:
string get_song_lyrics(string search_string);
Given the string to search for, eg: "Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb"
will return the lyrics of the song as a string.
The way it will do this is by using google and the various search
results returned by google.
Steps involved:
[1] Query google for the search string.
[2] Get the first say 6 pages(results) that you get.
[3] Apply custom algo. to get text-intersection of these pages.
[4] Result is the lyrics, which can be used by calling application!!!!
Simple enough eh ;-)
I'm in the process of trying out these libraries for use:
[1] http://homepage.mac.com/pauljlucas/software/html_tree/ for HTML parsing.
[2] http://www.demailly.com/~dl/wwwtools.html#http-tiny for HTTP
request response.
If you have any better alternatives, please let me know, since this is
all still open to discussion. Preferred language of implementation:
C++. Library interface will be in C. Open to other languages of
implementation like Python, Perl, etc.... but only if you are willing
to do the work in that language.
Regards,
-Dhruv.
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-Dhruv Matani.
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