# Get Lyrics

This statement is used to extract lyrics from happi.dev. Before you can get lyrics you must have registered and received an API key. The process is defined in Get Lyrics Introduction.

The available options are identical to those defined for UI based access in Preferences - Lyrics. You can choose to use the default options or you can specify alternate settings. The various options and the determination of which tracks are eligible to be processed is specified in Preferences - Lyrics. Note that the Genre contains any of list is not present in this statement. However, you can use the Preferences statement's single setting Lyrics Ignore Genre List to override the defaults.

The Silent option disables the display of error messages. Note that Silent is implicit when you are running in the Batch Processor.

Whenever lyrics are extracted, they are saved to the default unnamed lyrics item. An attempt to acquire a lyric also results in the creation or modification of a UDTI named Get Lyrics Status. The Network Response property is also set after each access.

The formatting of the Get Lyrics Status UDTI is described in Get Lyrics Status Format.