README.md

Scraping U2 Lyrics

This repository contains the R scripts to scrape U2 Lyrics, as well as the scraped HTML files, and the assembled output CSV file.

Source

The source of the U2 Lyrics data is:

https://www.azlyrics.com/u/u2band.html

Description

Scraping-U2-Lyrics-with-R.pdf

Data Table u2-lyrics.csv

The ultimate output of the R scripts is the CSV file u2-lyrics.csv. This file has a data table with four columns:

1. album: name of album

2. year: year (in which album was published)

3. song: name of song

4. lyrics: text of transcript

This data set can be used for text mining purposes.

Filestructure

README.md
Scraping-U2-Lyrics-with-R.pdf
code/
  script1-scrape-album-year-and-song.R
  script2-download-song-html-files.R
  script3-scrape-u2-lyrics-text.R
data/
  u2band.html
  u2-songs-info.csv
  u2-lyrics.csv
html_files/
	Boy-1980-adaywithoutme.html
	Boy-1980-ancatdubh.html
	...
	Songs-Of-Experience-2017-yourethebestthingaboutme.html

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