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Tools for working with theGenius (FKARap Genius) API.

• Genius Developers Site:https://genius.com/developers
• Genius API Docs:https://docs.genius.com/

Get the latest stable version from CRAN…

install.packages("geniusr")

…or install the development version from Github (recommended).

remotes::install_github("ewenme/geniusr")

1. Create a Genius API client
2. Generate a client access token from yourAPI Clientspage
3. Set your credentials in the System Environment variableGENIUS_API_TOKEN by calling thegenius_token() function andentering your Genius Client Access Token when prompted.

Start withthebasics!

library(geniusr)library(dplyr)library(tidytext)# get lyricsget_lyrics_search(artist_name="Kanye West",song_title="Good Morning") %>%# get lyric bigrams  unnest_tokens(bigram,line,token="ngrams",n=2) %>%# look for good morning  filter(bigram=="good morning") %>%# count bigram frequency  nrow()#> [1] 18

• Get citation information for geniusr in R withcitation(package = 'geniusr')
• Please note that the geniusr project is released with aContributorCode ofConduct. Bycontributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

• thegenius packagespecialises in lyrics retrieval from Genius.