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geniusr

Tools for Working with the 'Genius' API

v1.2.1 · Sep 3, 2022 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Provides tools to interact nicely with the 'Genius' API <https://docs.genius.com/>. Search hosted content, extract associated metadata and retrieve lyrics with ease.

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5.7K

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0

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23

Last 90 days

91

Last year

Trend: -100% (30d vs prior 30d)

autoCRAN

5

Last 7 days

12

Last 30 days

1

All-time

autoCRAN-only: this name is served only by autoCRAN, so the count is exact.

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Additional Issues

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Code

Structure

Lines of code

3,029

Files

61

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 1,593 (52.6%)Tests 318 (10.5%)Docs 1,118 (36.9%)

API

Exported functions

29

Internal functions

22

Recent export changes

v1.2.1−6 get_album_meta, get_artist_meta, get_song_meta 3 more
v1.2.0+25 album_to_df, artist_to_df, browse_genius +22 more

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.20

testthat edition

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Return-value doc rate

89.7%

\dontrun example ratio

100%

Roxygen coverage

100%

Has pkgdown

No

NEWS present

Yes

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

0%

Unsafe pattern score

2

Dep constraint coverage

0%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

3.2.0

System requirements

C++ standard

License

MIT + file LICENSE

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

4

First release

2017-12-06

Latest release

2022-09-03

Avg cadence

449 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

4

LOC over versions

v1.0.0: 855 LOCv1.1.0: 895 LOCv1.2.0: 3,468 LOCv1.2.1: 3,029 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/cran-code-metrics.

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies curl dplyr httr purrr rvest stringr tibble xml2 geniusr

Version History

5 tracked
new 1.2.1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.2.1 ← 1.2.0 diff Sep 3, 2022
updated 1.2.0 ← 1.1.0 diff Apr 12, 2020
updated 1.1.0 ← 1.0.0 diff Jan 19, 2019
new 1.0.0 Dec 5, 2017