Expected str instance nonetype found

My code

from lyricsgenius import Genius

genius = Genius(xxx)


genius.remove_section_headers = True

artist = genius.search_artist(xxx)
artist.save_lyrics(extension = 'txt', binary_encoding=True)

Sometimes script can’t find lyrics to one song, passes it and goes to another one. But when saving file, it gives this error:

Error at line XX: Expected str instance nonetype found genius lyrics

How do I fix this error so I’m able to save the lyrics, even if one or more is missing?

[allerter]

This particular issue happens because we’re making a lot of requests and as you mentioned their API wasn’t made for lyrics, so we have to download each song page separately. This causes the number of requests to rise and time-outs are bound to happen when we make so many HTTP requests. In your case, the timeout happens when the package tries to fetch the full song info (because the get_full_info parameter is True), but at the same time, the package doesn’t handle the timeouts as it should. But all that is handled in the next version that’s coming out.

[allerter]

You shouldn’t change the max_songs parameter as we’re adding the songs manually, so all we need is an empty Artist object. I edited the script above and improved it a bit.