ultimateultimateguitar(1)

ultimateultimateguitar1

Cli to access ultimate-guitar.com

Usage

ultimateultimateguitar

ultimateultimateguitar [OPTIONS] URL

Overview

This command queries the online API provided by ultimate-guitar.com.
If the URL of a song is passed as parameter, it will be loaded and displayed directly.
Alternatively, calling it without parameter will enter interactive mode.

Interactive mode

These are the commands that a user might enter in a typical interactive shell:

Example interaction

search mysong
load 1
transpose +2
load 1
quit

Commands

quit

Exit the program.
Ctrl+D (EOF) also works.

search TEXT

Will search the online database for a matching text and return a numbered list.

load NUMBER

It will download and print the entry with the corresponding number from the last search command.

transpose SEMITONES

It will transpose the loaded song. To print it, you will have to re-issue the last load command.

urlopen URL

Loads from a URL rather than from a search.

Command line mode

URL

It must be the URL of a song.

Options

-h, --help

Show this help message and exit

--version

Show program's version number and exit

--transpose TRANSPOSE, -t TRANSPOSE

Transposes the chords of n semitones.
It can be a positive or negative integer, to transpose up or down.

Web

https://codeberg.org/ltworf/ultimateultimateguitar

Author

Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli <[email protected]>

From ultimateultimateguitar 1.7-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.