Micrography

A Python3 script to pull album art and lyrics into a computer generated micrograph. Uses the lyricsgenius API for searching albums.

Shoutouts!

• Thank you!
  • rneiss
  • johnwmillr
  • FreeMono.ttf (Ubuntu Free Fonts) https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/all/fonts-freefont-ttf/filelist

Setting up lyricsgenius API

• Go to Genius
• Create an account
• Visit the API Documentation Page for further API documentation
• Create an API key using the API Clients page
• Replace the "KEY" on line 32 and you're set!

Setup

[~]> pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Help Menu

[~]> python3 album_micrography.py -h
usage: album_micrography.py [-h] -a  -al [-f] [-fs]

Create monographs from albums!

optional arguments:
  -h, --help        show this help message and exit
  -a, --artist      Artist
  -al, --album.     Album Title
  -f, --font_style  Font Style
  -fs, --font_size  Font Size; Range: (5-50))
  -bg, --background Set Image Background Color to Black (for contrast)

Basic Usage

[~]> python3 album_micrography.py -a Daughters -al "You Won't Get What You Want"

Searching for "You Won't Get What You Want" by Daughters...
[+] Downloading album cover!
[+] Image saved to: ./YouWontGetWhatYouWant/album_art.jpg
[+] All lyrics written to: ./YouWontGetWhatYouWant/lyrics.jpg
[+] Saving Micrograph to: YouWontGetWhatYouWant/micrograph.png

Advanced Usage

Setting Font Style

[~]> python3 album_micrography.py -a lizzo -al "big grrrl small world" -f ./FreeMono.ttf

Searching for "big grrrl small world" by lizzo...
[+] Downloading album cover!
[+] Image saved to: ./biggrrrlsmallworld/album_art.jpg
[+] All lyrics written to: ./biggrrrlsmallworld/lyrics.jpg
[+] Saving Micrograph to: biggrrrlsmallworld/micrograph.png

Setting Font Size

[~]> python3 album_micrography.py -a 'ed Sheeran' -al divide -f ./FreeMono.ttf -fs 11

Searching for "divide" by ed Sheeran...
[+] Downloading album cover!
[+] Image saved to: ./divide/album_art.jpg
[+] All lyrics written to: ./divide/lyrics.jpg
[+] Saving Micrograph to: divide/micrograph.png

Setting Background Color to Black

[~]> python3 album_micrography.py -a 'rage against the machine' -al 'evil empire' -bg

Searching for "evil empire" by rage against the machine
[+] Downloading album cover!
[+] Image saved to: ./evilempire/album_art.jpg
[+] All lyrics written to: ./evilempire/lyrics.jpg
[+] Saving Micrograph to: evilempire/micrograph.png

Example Output

You Won't Get What You Want by Daughters

Big Grrrl Small World by Lizzo

Divide by Ed Sheeran

Divide by Ed Sheeran

Follow on steps

• Fix the words at the start of the image (the image starts in the middle of a sentence...)
• Create subparsers to allow for books and other mediums as well