h1. A hack to rip contents from State-Of-Art Intellectual Property Protection Technology of Lyrics.Wikia.Com (Which We Have To Use Because Of Licensing Agreement) Simple Ruby script that outputs HTML lyrics: bc. require 'open-uri' puts open("http://lyrics.wikia.com/#{URI.escape(ARGV[0])}:#{URI.escape(ARGV[1])}").read.scan(%r|<div class='lyricbox'><div class='rtMatcher'>.*?</div>(.*?)<!--|m)[0][0] Plaintext lyrics are harder: bc. require 'rubygems' require 'open-uri' require 'hpricot' puts Hpricot.parse(open("http://lyrics.wikia.com/#{URI.escape(ARGV[0])}:#{URI.escape(ARGV[1])}")).at('div.lyricbox').children.select {|a| a.name != "div"}.map {|s| s.to_plain_text}.join("") #.to_plain_text h2. Links "HTML":https://github.com/Voker57/scripts/blob/master/lyrics-html and "TXT":https://github.com/Voker57/scripts/blob/master/lyrics-txt scrappers on github.