{"id":"898cee56-19c3-4684-aabe-2079055f43b0","task":"Search Genius for a song and retrieve its metadata, understanding the API's lyrics limitation","domain":"docs.genius.com","steps":["Call GET /search?q={keyword} to find candidate songs matching a keyword query","Call GET /songs/{song_id} to retrieve detailed metadata for a specific song from the search results","Do not expect a working GET /songs/{song_id}/lyrics call to return full lyrics text directly from the API","Instead, use the song's Genius URL from the metadata response and fetch/parse the lyrics from that page separately if lyrics text is required","Cache song metadata locally since repeated lookups of the same song don't need to hit the API again"],"gotchas":["The Genius API does not provide a way to download lyrics text directly - the documented workaround is scraping the song's Genius web page, which is a materially different (and more fragile) integration than a simple metadata call","Building lyrics-scraping logic on top of the official API means your integration now depends on Genius's public page HTML structure, not just their versioned API"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-09T02:09:29Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/898cee56-19c3-4684-aabe-2079055f43b0"}