This script opens lyrics of a song currently played by Spotify in default browser (for Linux, using Ruby and D-Bus).

Spotify, Linux, Ruby, D-Bus, Lyrics

#!/usr/bin/ruby

# This script opens lyrics of a song currently played by Spotify in default browser
# (for Linux, using Ruby and D-Bus).
#
# @see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=134635
# @see https://github.com/mvidner/ruby-dbus
#
# Author:: Vaclav Sykora (mailto:[email protected])

require 'dbus'
require 'uri'

dbus = DBus::SessionBus.instance
service = dbus.service('org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.spotify')
object = service.object('/org/mpris/MediaPlayer2')
object.introspect
player = object['org.mpris.MediaPlayer2.Player']
song_title = player['Metadata']['xesam:title']
song_artist = player['Metadata']['xesam:artist'][0]

puts "#{song_artist} : #{song_title}"

link = "http://lyrics.wikia.com/#{URI::encode(song_artist)}:#{URI::encode(song_title)}"
#link = "http://www.songlyrics.com/#{URI::encode(song_artist)}/#{URI::encode(song_title)}-lyrics/"

`xdg-open "#{link}"`