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by modsWork4appl 2266 days ago
Current plan is to write a Python script that takes screenshots every 1 second, and I'll tab through my huge playlist.

Then later I'll scrape those photos for text.

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If you open your network tab in your browser's devtools, there may be JSON payloads to give you what you need (rather than farting around with OCR or reverse image searching your album art).
No luck.

But I did make that python program to take photos. 64 images to scrape one day. I'm not too concerned of the difficulty of OCR, there's gotta be some libraries for it, especially on black and white text from a web page.

(I did OCR with cellphone pictures and it worked)