YouTube Bot

Info

• YouTube Bot is a discord bot where you can search for anything on YouTube, it will automatically find the first result, the channel and a lot more info about it then format it into an embed, and if you would like there is a dropdown menu where you can make the bot send you an ephemeral message with the video as an embed to watch.

Set-Up

Required

• Code Text Editor e.g. VSC (visual studio code)
• Python 3.9.10
• Google API Key
• Your Discord Bot Token

Enable YouTube API

• LINK

Adding Your Info

• Get your previously mentioned "Discord Bot Token" and replace the "bottokenhere" with your discord bot token.
• Found here

cmd.run('tokenhere')

• Replace the "googleapikeyhere" found on line 18 with your Google API key

api_service_name = "youtube"
api_version = "v3"
DEVELOPER_KEY = 'googleapikeyhere'

• Now pip install all the modules and you are ready to run your bot!
• You can also host this bot

Customizability

Status

• To customize your bots status edit the information on line 13

    await cmd.change_presence(activity=discord.Activity(name='😼😼😼😼😼', type=5))

• Name is the text that shows up in the status
• The type is what it says before that, e.g. "Streaming", "Listening to" or in this case "Competing in"
• Here are some types you can set it as:

ID	Name	Format	Example
0	Game	Playing {name}	"Playing Rocket League"
1	Streaming	Streaming {details}	"Streaming Rocket League"
2	Listening	Listening to {name}	"Listening to Spotify"
3	Watching	Watching {name}	"Watching YouTube Together"
4	Custom	{emoji} {name}	":smiley: I am cool"
5	Competing	Competing in {name}	"Competing in Arena World Champions"

Search Info

• You can customize the search settings by editing the info found in lines 62-68

    request = youtube.search().list(
        part="id,snippet",
        type='video',
        q=f"{output}",
        videoDuration='short',
        videoDefinition='high',
        maxResults=1,
        fields="nextPageToken,items(id(videoId),snippet(publishedAt,channelId,channelTitle,title,description))"
    )

Other

• and of course you can customize the embed and drop down menu

How It Works

FAQ

• How do I avoid maxing out my quota on Googles API?

You should add a cooldown to the bots commands, and if you are using this bot in a lot of servers I would recommend making more Google projects, getting the API keys from those, then using code that will randomly pick from 1 of up to 15 API keys in a text file.

• How can I host this bot without paying?

I would recommend EC2 on AWS for free hosting, you can research how to use that, I am not typing out a tutorial because I am not in the mood to write a 30 page essay.

End

To reach me if you have any issues, or need help my discord is: Rice#0404.