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Google Lyric Search Reloaded

March 16, 2005 at 10:17 am · Comments (0)

Upon listening to a new-to-me song (REM’s “At My Most Beautiful” {iTunes|Amazon}), I realized that I’d do something I do fairly often: head to Google, do a search, and try to find lyrics. Fortunately, Apple’s AppleScript environment allows some automation of these routine tasks. I went online to see if I could code one of my own; before I could start researching, I found Google Lyric Search at the amazing Doug’s Applescripts for iTunes page (for the record, I’ve used a bunch of his scripts for other tasks before).

I was 95% of the way there – and more quickly than I could have imagined. I changed its browser preference from Safari to Firefox using a small script from g-WH!Z and made the button default to Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” behavior. The result was a menu item that automatically opens the first search result in a Firefox window; in most cases, this means that lyrics are literally a click away.

I asked Doug if I could share my tweak. He agreed, so here it is:

Google Lyric Search (Firefox) (ZIP)

(p.s. donate to the guy using PayPal, Kagi, or Amazon in the right column of his page. he’s cool.)

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