Hello, here's a script that polls periodically what's playing on KOIT, FM 96.5 in San Francisco (you can listen via the net), and finds lyrics from another site. Not all lyrics can be found, but most seem to be ok.

update. added \Q\E around $title since it can contain something like (. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# polls what's current playing on radio KOIT in San Francisco,
# get the lyrics from lyricsbox.com
#
# TODO: (1) make the title search a little fuzzier
#       (2) search more sites for lyrics
#       (3) nicer interface? color, scrolling?
#
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use URI::Escape;

my $nowplay = "http://koit.com/nowplay_data.cfm";
my $lyricsbox = "http://www.lyricsbox.com";
my $lyrics_list = "$lyricsbox/cgi-exe/am.cgi?a=search&p=1&l=artist&s="
+;
my $last_artist = "";
my $last_title = "";
my $sleep = 60; # poll once a minute

while(1){
    my $data = get($nowplay);
    my ($artist, $title) = $data =~ m|box=(.+) - (.+)&|;
    $title =~ s/\W+$//g; # remove junk from end
    $title =~ s/^\W+//g; # remove junk from beginning
    if ($artist ne $last_artist && $title ne $last_title){
        print "-"x40,"\n";
        print "\t$artist: $title\n\n";
        $last_artist = $artist;
        $last_title = $title;

        # try to get lyrics
        my $list = get($lyrics_list.uri_escape($artist));
        my ($url) =  $list =~ m|<A href="([^"]+)">\Q$title\E.*?</A></t
+d>|i;
        if($url){
            my $song = get($lyricsbox.$url);
            my ($ly) = $song =~ m|<PRE.*?>(.+)</PRE>|si;
            print $ly;
        }else{
            print "No lyrics found from $lyricsbox\n";
        }
        print "\n\n";
    }
    sleep $sleep;
}

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In reply to Lyrics for what's playing on radio KOIT (FM 96.5 in San Francisco) by johnnywang

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