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lyrics.ovh

Source of lyrics.ovh and API to search for lyrics of a song

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Dernière activité 20 juin 2026
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lyrics.ovh: Only the lyrics

Source of the website https://lyrics.ovh — find the lyrics for any song, quickly and without ads.

A Chrome Extension is also available, thanks to Varal7: https://github.com/Varal7/lyrics-chrome-extension.

API

An API is available to get the lyrics of a song:

GET https://api.lyrics.ovh/v1/{artist}/{title}

Returns { "lyrics": "..." } or a 404 error.

A suggestion endpoint is also available:

GET https://api.lyrics.ovh/suggest/{search term}

Returns search results from Deezer.

How to start

npm install
node .

Then uncomment line 6 of frontend/search.js to use the local API.

Lyrics sources

Lyrics are fetched from multiple sources in parallel, and the first result wins:

Docker

docker build -t lyrics.ovh .
docker run -p 8080:8080 -p 8081:8081 lyrics.ovh

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