Record audio and use the Shazam music recognition API from the command line. It is free for 500 queries per month.

The shazam scripts queries the Shazam API. This repository also contains shazam-notif which uses shazam and libnotify to return the match result.

The shazam script requires:

• curl
• ffmpeg

In addition to the above the shazam-notif script requires:

• jq
• notify-send
• dunst (optional)

Just clone this repo and place the shazam and shazam-notif scripts on your $PATH.

Using your favourite AUR helper:

paru -S shazam-cli-git

To use these scripts you'll need your own API key. It can be obtained from rapidapi you'll need a RapidAPI account and subscribe to the Shazam API (there is a free a plan). Provide the API key either through the -a flag or by writing to ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/shazam-cli/key.

$ shazam -h
Usage: shazam [OPTION]... [FILE]
Query the Shazam music recognition API.

Get free API access at: https://rapidapi.com/apidojo/api/shazam/

The API key can be read from file:
$ echo "api-key" > "~/.config/shazam-cli/key"

If no FILE is provided, a recording is made using the AUDIO_SOURCE.

Usage:
    -h                    Show this message and exit.
    -a API_KEY            API token.
    -s AUDIO_SOURCE       ffmpeg audio input source, (default: "default").
    -t RECORDING_TIME     Length of recording time, in seconds, (default: 5).

You can use ffmpeg -sources pulse to list available sources.