STANDS4 Web Services:

Lyrics API

The Lyrics API from STANDS4 enables you to get album, artist and songs information for a given search term — along with direct links to the respected object pages on Lyrics.com.

Request URL:

https://www.stands4.com/services/v2/lyrics.php

Request parameters:

Parameter	Value	Required	Default	Description
uid	string	Y		Your API user id
tokenid	string	Y		Your valid developer token id
term	string	Y		The term you would like to search for
artist	string	N		The name of the artist or band
format	string	N	xml	The format in which you want the result returned (xml or json)

Sample request URL:

https://www.stands4.com/services/v2/lyrics.php?uid=1001&tokenid=tk324324&term=forever%20young&artist=Alphaville&format=xml

Response elements:

Element	Description
results	Contains all of the query responses
result	Contains each individual response
song	The matching song title
song-link	Direct link to the song's lyrics page on Lyrics.com
artist	The artist the performs the song
artist-link	Direct link to artist page on Lyrics.com
album	The album name this song belongs to
album-link	Direct link to album page on Lyrics.com

Sample response:

XML
JSON

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <results>	<result>	<song>	Forever Young	</song>	<song-link>	https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/8237688	</song-link>	<artist>	Johnny Cash	</artist>	<artist-link>	https://www.lyrics.com/artist/Johnny%20Cash/1548	</artist-link>	<album>	The Legend [Columbia]	</album>	<album-link>	https://www.lyrics.com/album/784490	</album-link> </result> </results>

 {	"results": {	"result": {	"song": "Forever Young",	"song-link": "https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/8237688",	"artist": "Johnny Cash",	"artist-link": "https://www.lyrics.com/artist/Johnny%20Cash/1548",	"album": "The Legend [Columbia]",	"album-link": "https://www.lyrics.com/album/784490"	}	} }