module Lyricli # This class gets the lyrics according to a given artist and song name. class LyricsEngine include Util # Starts a new instance of LyricsEngine # # @param [String] artist the artist # @param [String] song the song to look for def initialize(artist, song) @provider = URI("http://lyrics.wikia.com/api.php?artist=#{sanitize_param artist}&song=#{sanitize_param song}&fmt=realjson") end # Asks Lyrics Wiki for the lyrics, also cleans up the output a little. # # @return [String] the lyrics def get_lyrics begin response = Net::HTTP.get(@provider) response = MultiJson.decode(response) doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(response['url'])) node = doc.search(".lyricbox").first rescue raise Lyricli::LyricsNotFoundException end node.search(".rtMatcher").each do |n| n.remove end node.search("br").each do |br| br.replace "\n" end node.inner_text end end end