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Give me a tool that scrapes tabs from Ultimate-Guitar and I'll be a happy camper :)

by rc5150 3mo ago

smalltorch 3mo ago
This is one i could get behind. I mean, all the tabs are crowdsourced anyway so why can you throw up the paywall only after all the tabs are made. I only need the clean tab and transposing would be nice. TerminalTabs anyone?
- bstsb 3mo ago
  as far as i remember only the Pro tabs are paywalled (the ones created professionally)? the community tabs are all freely available on web, and carry little restrictions on mobile
  - smalltorch 3mo ago
    Exactly why I can get behind a scrape here. They are already freely accessable. I don't like having to switch to desktop mode to transpose though. They want you to get the app to do it on mobile which is enough of a reason to make a special program to do exactly what I want. Also, scraping chord charts is in a different catagory from tabs. I can't even actually read tabs but with a chord chart you can get close enough to noodle around and emulate. Good enough for my needs.
    - thorncorona 3mo ago
      > Exactly why I can get behind a scrape here. They are already freely accessable. I think in most cases it is the effort that is the gate. Ex. you can DDOS most public facing services simply by spamming AI.
mrln 3mo ago
Let me introduce you to freetar! It currently has issues due to cloudflare blocking, however I have already created a pull request that fixes this [0]. Given the code is pretty straightforward, turning it into a scraper shouldn't be too hard of a task! Here's a working version: https://freetar.sievers.dev https://freetar.sievers.dev [0] https://github.com/kmille/freetar/pull/90 https://github.com/kmille/freetar/pull/90
asdff 3mo ago
There are examples on github from the beforetimes (preai). I made my own little version with a basic ui in python a couple years ago. Works pretty good. Best to pull the powertab or guitar pro tab versions though and open in tuxguitar. Here is what I was cribbing from with my own version. Seems they updated it since. https://github.com/jabbey1/UGDownloader https://github.com/jabbey1/UGDownloader
dboreham 3mo ago
But the tabs would be wrong (since they're invariably wrong in UG).

Give me a tool that scrapes tabs from Ultimate-Guitar and I'll be a happy camper :)

by rc5150 3mo ago

Give me a tool that scrapes tabs from Ultimate-Guitar and I'll be a happy camper :)

This is one i could get behind. I mean, all the tabs are crowdsourced anyway so why can you throw up the paywall only after all the tabs are made. I only need the clean tab and transposing would be nice. TerminalTabs anyone?

bstsb 3mo ago
as far as i remember only the Pro tabs are paywalled (the ones created professionally)? the community tabs are all freely available on web, and carry little restrictions on mobile
- smalltorch 3mo ago
  Exactly why I can get behind a scrape here. They are already freely accessable. I don't like having to switch to desktop mode to transpose though. They want you to get the app to do it on mobile which is enough of a reason to make a special program to do exactly what I want. Also, scraping chord charts is in a different catagory from tabs. I can't even actually read tabs but with a chord chart you can get close enough to noodle around and emulate. Good enough for my needs.
  - thorncorona 3mo ago
    > Exactly why I can get behind a scrape here. They are already freely accessable. I think in most cases it is the effort that is the gate. Ex. you can DDOS most public facing services simply by spamming AI.

mrln 3mo ago

Let me introduce you to freetar! It currently has issues due to cloudflare blocking, however I have already created a pull request that fixes this [0]. Given the code is pretty straightforward, turning it into a scraper shouldn't be too hard of a task! Here's a working version: https://freetar.sievers.dev https://freetar.sievers.dev [0] https://github.com/kmille/freetar/pull/90 https://github.com/kmille/freetar/pull/90

asdff 3mo ago

There are examples on github from the beforetimes (preai). I made my own little version with a basic ui in python a couple years ago. Works pretty good. Best to pull the powertab or guitar pro tab versions though and open in tuxguitar. Here is what I was cribbing from with my own version. Seems they updated it since. https://github.com/jabbey1/UGDownloader https://github.com/jabbey1/UGDownloader

dboreham 3mo ago

But the tabs would be wrong (since they're invariably wrong in UG).