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# Genius API
## Important notes
### Legal note
For legal reasons, this tool is for educational purposes only. And Scraping is not allowed by the Genius API Terms of Service. And I do not encourage the use of Scraping websites for any data, and that API endpoints should always be used instead.
### Legal Notice
This tool is provided for educational and experimental purposes only.
Please be aware that the Genius API Terms of Service **prohibit** web scraping of their website. This project contains code that performs scraping to retrieve song lyrics directly from Genius.com, which may violate those terms.
Since Genius does not provide official API endpoints for lyrics due to copyright restrictions, this tool includes scraping functionality as a workaround. However, scraping may result in legal or technical consequences such as IP bans, rate limiting, or other restrictions imposed by Genius.
**Use this tool responsibly and at your own risk.** The author does not encourage or endorse violating any third-party terms of service or applicable laws and disclaims any liability arising from misuse.
Whenever possible, prefer using official API endpoints and respect copyright laws.
## API key required
This tool requires a Genius API key to work since it fetches song metadata from the Genius API.