From f684f29a2536dc567eedacac27d843828022cafd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Sampson <adrian@radbox.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:24:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] lyrics: Tolerate pages without text (fix #1914)

---
 beetsplug/lyrics.py | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/beetsplug/lyrics.py b/beetsplug/lyrics.py
index b5212b56f..7ed64d88d 100644
--- a/beetsplug/lyrics.py
+++ b/beetsplug/lyrics.py
@@ -430,8 +430,13 @@ def scrape_lyrics_from_html(html):
                              parse_only=SoupStrainer(text=is_text_notcode))
     except HTMLParseError:
         return None
-    soup = sorted(soup.stripped_strings, key=len)[-1]
-    return soup
+
+    # Get the longest text element (if any).
+    strings = sorted(soup.stripped_strings, key=len, reverse=True)
+    if strings:
+        return strings[0]
+    else:
+        return None
 
 
 class Google(Backend):