Discord YouTube Bot 2 (beta)

This is the new Discord bot that supersedes the old v1 discord bot at https://github.com/jack3898/discord-youtube-bot.

A lot of music bots are private and proprietary (and lock features behind a paywall), and additionally, YouTube have been targeting large Discord bots for takedown. As this bot is open source, you can use it assured YouTube can't do anything to bring it down as you have the code on your own server and is not commercially available.

Features

Command	What it does
/play	Play something straight away with a URL or search query.
/pause	Pause the current playing audio.
/resume	Unpause the bot.
/volume	Set the audio playback volume of the bot. Affects all listeners.
/enqueue	Add a video to the queue.
/playlist	Bulk import a playlist into the queue.
/queue	Get a list of items in the queue.
/start	Start playing the queue whilst the bot is inactive.
/stop	Stop the playing of audio and disconnect the bot.
/skip	Skip the current item in the queue. Disconnects if the queue is empty.
/search	Search and pick a video to add to the queue using an interactive dropdown.
/clear	Purge the queue of all of its contents.
/remove	With a queue number, remove a specific item from the queue.

TIP: Typing "/" in the Discord text channel will give you automatic suggestions of commands and will auto-complete options as you type the command!

Technologies

This bot is proudly powered with Node.js, TypeScript & Redis. It also uses the all-new Discord.js v13 library which leverages the latest Discord v9 bot API!

• Node.js v16/v17
• Discord.js v13
• TypeScript
• Redis

Because of Discord.js v13 using the very new Discord v9 API, the bot leverages slash commands and interactive message components!

Advantages of v13:

• !help is not needed. Typing "/" will give you a list of commands natively in Discord.
• Commands can be autocompleted and give you a description of each argument as you go.
• Discord type checks your arguments and enforces required arguments so its much harder to make a mistake typing a command.
• This bot has interactive buttons and dropdown lists! In the chat!
• No conflict with other bots that are also using slash commands. This bot will ALWAYS use a forward slash to initiate a command.

Setup for production

1. Install Docker, Docker Compose and Git for your own OS. Linux is highly recommended as a platform to host this bot on. Windows (Server) will work, but you will be missing out on a lot of performance.

2. Navigate into a directory you want to place the project directory in using cd.

3. Clone this repository using Git: git clone https://github.com/jack3898/discord-youtube-bot-2.

4. Rename .env-example to .env.

   1. Note: Using .env is not a requirement. You can create environment variables in your system instead.

5. Fill in the requirements for the environment variables.

   1. DISCORD_TOKEN & CLIENT_ID - Which you can create/find https://discord.com/developers. This bot also requires the applications.commands permission otherwise you will not be able to use slash commands.
   2. DEV_GUILD_ID - For developers only. You do not need to fill this in if you are not a developer.
   3. GOOGLE_API_TOKEN - Which you can create in the Google Cloud platform https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials.
      1. You also need to enable YouTube Data API v3 in the Google Cloud platform.

6. Run docker-compose up --build --detach. This will build the bot, and run it.

How to update the bot

1. Pull the latest code from this repository with git pull. This will not override your .env file, but it is a good idea to check the .env-example file to ensure you meet the latest environment variable requirements.
2. Rebuild the Docker containers with docker-compose up --build.
3. Done!

Plans

This bot is in continuous development, and is only in its beginning phase. It currently does not have any additional features over the previous bot so my first plan is to make that so.

Then I will continue to make the bot more versatile and powerful! Not yet sure what those features may be!

Licensed under the GNU GPL v3

Discord YouTube Bot, an open source Discord YouTube Bot. Copyright (C) 2021 Jack Wright

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.