https://github.com/seanfhear/tab-scraper

Interface for downloading guitar tabs from Ultimate Guitar
https://github.com/seanfhear/tab-scraper

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Interface for downloading guitar tabs from Ultimate Guitar

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/seanfhear/tab-scraper
• Owner: seanfhear
• Created: 2019-05-01T11:32:31.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-12-08T18:57:53.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T13:28:58.066Z (7 months ago)
• Topics: chords, guitar, guitar-chords, guitar-tablature, guitar-tabs, ultimate-guitar, web-scraping
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 279 KB
• Stars: 85
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 13
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# tab-scraper

An interface for downloading guitar tabs from Ultimate Guitar.

![ui-image](screens/ui-screen.png)

Get screenshots of Guitar Chords, Tabs, Bass Tabs and Ukulele Chords with no clutter.

Chords  |   Tab

:------:|:------|

![chords](screens/feather-chords.png) | ![tab](screens/sultans-tab.png)

You can also download GuitarPro and PowerTab files. 


All files are sorted into directories for quick and easy access.

### Prerequisites

1. Firefox Web Browser

### Running the Program

#### Executable

1. Download an executable version [here](https://github.com/Sean-Hassett/tab-scraper/releases).

2. Follow instructions in the readme.txt provided.

#### Command Line

1. Open settings.cfg and enter in the root directory where you would like all tabs to be stored e.g. username/Music/Tabs/ 

2. Download [Geckodriver](https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases) and put the geckodriver executable into the src directory.

3. Run `pip install -r requirements.txt`

4. run `python tab_scraper.py` from src directory.

### Built With

- Python 3

- [PyQT5](https://pypi.org/project/PyQt5/)

- [Selenium](https://selenium-python.readthedocs.io/)

- [Geckodriver](https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases)