Song Lyrics Finder — Full Lyrics for Any Artist & Track

What does Song Lyrics do?

Song Lyrics fetches the full lyrics for any song from a simple text search. Give it a list of queries like Eminem Lose Yourself and it returns complete, clean lyrics plus the matched song title and artist — as structured data ready to download or pull via API. Optionally, it also returns timestamped lyrics from YouTube, great for karaoke, subtitles, and sync use cases.

Run it on the Apify platform with scheduling, integrations, and API access built in. No music API key, no accounts, no browser required.

Why use Song Lyrics?

• Full lyrics — complete song text, not just a snippet
• Batch lookups — search many songs in a single run
• Timestamped YouTube lyrics — optional per-line timestamps for sync and karaoke
• NLP-ready — clean text output for sentiment analysis, topic modeling, or LLM training
• No API key — no Genius or Musixmatch subscription needed
• Automation-friendly — schedule pulls for new releases or run via the Apify API

Typical use cases: music apps and bots, lyric cards and karaoke subtitles, research and lyric datasets, language-learning tools, and playlist analysis.

How to use Song Lyrics

1. Open the Input tab
2. Add one or more Queries (e.g. Eminem Lose Yourself, Queen Bohemian Rhapsody)
3. (Optional) Enable Include YouTube Lyrics for timestamped transcripts
4. Click Start
5. Find the results in the Output tab, or download as JSON, CSV, or Excel

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
queries	Array of strings	Yes	Search queries, e.g. ["Eminem Lose Yourself"] (up to 10 per run)
include_youtube_lyrics	Boolean	No	Also return timestamped lyrics from YouTube (default false)
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	Proxy settings — only used when fetching YouTube transcripts

Example input:

{
  "queries": ["Eminem Lose Yourself", "Queen Bohemian Rhapsody"],
  "include_youtube_lyrics": false
}

Output

Each query produces one lyrics item in the dataset:

{
  "song": "Lose Yourself",
  "artist": "Eminem",
  "lyrics": "Look\nIf you had one shot, or one opportunity...",
  "error": null
}

When Include YouTube Lyrics is enabled, an additional timestamped entry is pushed per query with youtube_lyrics, youtube_video_url, youtube_channel, youtube_view_count, and the full youtube_transcript.

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data table

Field	Type	Description
song	String	Matched song title
artist	String	Matched artist name
lyrics	String / null	Full song lyrics, or null if not found
youtube_lyrics	String / null	Timestamped lyrics from YouTube (when enabled)
youtube_video_url	String / null	Source YouTube video URL
youtube_channel	String / null	YouTube channel name
youtube_view_count	String / null	YouTube view count
youtube_transcript	Array / null	Raw timestamped transcript segments
error	String / null	Error message if a lookup failed

Pricing / Cost estimation

Song Lyrics is fast and lightweight — text lyrics lookups complete in seconds and cost a fraction of a compute unit. On the Apify free plan you can run many lookups before hitting any limits. Enabling YouTube lyrics adds a search and transcript fetch per query, so runs take a little longer.

Tips

• Add artist and title together — e.g. Adele Hello gives the most accurate match
• Batch it — pass multiple queries in one run to look up a whole playlist
• Use proxies for YouTube — residential proxies improve YouTube transcript reliability

FAQ and support

Is this legal? This Actor retrieves publicly available lyrics data for personal and research use. Respect the terms of service of any platform you use the output with, and do not redistribute lyrics commercially without proper licensing.

A song wasn't found — what should I do? Check the spelling of the artist and title, or try adding the album. Very new or obscure tracks may not be indexed yet.

Need help or a custom solution? Open a ticket on the Issues tab or reach out on Discord: maged03211