zzany/politiciansinrap

Dirty Python script used to search Genius for keywords, then pull the lyrics, date, and genre of the resulting songs.

Politicians In Rap

Quick Python script to search Genius for a keyword and then scrape the corresponding lyrics, date of release, and genre for the result. I then used TextBlob to determine the polarity of the sentiment of the line that includes the keyword in the lyrics (e.g. whether it is a positive or negative use of the keyword).

Motivated by https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/clinton-trump-hip-hop-lyrics/ Implementation borrowed heavily from Jason Q Ng (https://github.com/jasonqng/genius-lyrics-search/blob/master/README.md#genius-lyrics-search) and Big-Ish Data (https://bigishdata.com/2016/09/27/getting-song-lyrics-from-geniuss-api-scraping/)

Credentials

Before running make sure you get credentials from Genius.com: https://genius.com/api-clients. Add them to credentials.txt and copy it to a credentials.ini.

Limitations • Only returns ~1000 results. Limitations of Genius API

• Can’t filter results by genre. For example, I used this to query use of politicians names in Rap. Unfortunately, mostly news showed up (e.g. transcripts of speeches).

• TextBlob sentiment analysis doesn’t work particularly well on rap.