An Alfred 3 workflow for searching song lyrics on Genius.
Download the latest Genius.alfredworkflow file and double click it to install.
After installing alfred-genius, type genius, then attempt to search for a song. You will see a message saying Genius is not set up yet! Press Enter, and you will be taken to the Genius API clients page. If you do not have a Genius account, you will have to create one first. Create a new API client with the following information (or whatever you want):
| New API Client | |
|---|---|
APP NAME |
alfred-genius |
ICON URL |
http://images.rapgenius.com/f2cb660689994b2564b2d493759c02a7.114x114x1.png |
APP WEBSITE URL |
https://github.com/goronfreeman/alfred-genius |
REDIRECT URI |
(empty) |
Click Save. On the next page under CLIENT ACCESS TOKEN, click Generate Access Token, then copy the token to your clipboard. Finally, open Alfred and type gsetup. Paste in the access token you just copied and press Enter. You should see a notification saying Genius is now ready! You can now type genius to search for any song you want.
Simply type genius followed by a song name. You will see a list of songs, along with the artist name and album cover. Press Enter to open the song page on Genius, or press Shift to view the page in a quicklook window.
You can also select a result and hold cmd, then press Enter to view the artist page on Genius, or hold alt, then press Enter to search for the song on Google. If you want to copy the song URL, highlight a result, then press cmd + c.
alfred-genius uses these libraries: