Discord Music bot

A simple discord bot that helps you manage your server by providing useful commands like playing music or deleting text messages.

You can find the tutorial about building a discord music bot here.

Table of content

• Requirements
• Getting started
• Common errors
• Contributing
• Author
• License

Requirements

• Node - Version 16 or higher
• NPM
• FFMPEG
• Docker (optional)

Getting started

First, make sure you have all the required tools installed on your local machine then continue with these steps.

Installation

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/TannerGabriel/discord-bot.git

# Enter into the directory
cd discord-bot/

# Install the dependencies
npm install

Required permissions

Important: Make sure that your bot has the applications.commands application scope enabled, which can be found under the OAuth2 tap on the developer portal

Configuration

After cloning the project and installing all dependencies, you need to add your Discord API token in the config.json file.

Starting the application

node index.js

Starting the application using Docker

# Build the image
docker build --tag discordbot .

# Run the image
docker run -d discordbot

Deploying commands

Before you can use the bots slash command you first need to add them to your Discord server. You can use the !deploy command to do so.

After deploying the commands you should be able to see and access them by typing a slash:

Features & Commands

Note: The repository now uses the new Discord slash commands

• 🎶 Play music from YouTube via url

/play YOUTUBE_URL

• 🎶 Play music from using song name

/play SONG_NAME

• 📃 Pause music

/pause

• 🎓 Resume music

/resume

• 💿 Skip song

/skip

• 🔇 Stop music

/stop

• 🔀 Shuffle Queue

/shuffle

• ↕ Move song position

/move TRACK_POSITION TARGET_POSITION

• ↔️ Swap song positions

/swap POSITION_1 POSITION_2

• ⏏️ Remove song

/remove POSITION

• Now Playing (/nowplaying)
• Get information about a user (/userinfo USER)
• Ban a player (/ban USER)
• Delete the latest chat messages (/purge NUM_OF_MESSAGES)

Common errors

Here is a list of common errors and how you can fix them.

Dependencies aren't up to date

The packages used in this repository get updated often, especially the ytdl-core package. That is why it is always worth a try updating those if you get an error like invalid URL: undefined or when the bot crashes when running the play command.

npm install ytdl-core@latest

FFMPEG is not installed on the machine running the bot

The play command requires FFMPEG to be installed on the machine that is running the bot. You can download it on the official FFMPEG website. Note: This isn't relevant if you use the Dockerfile because it will install FFMPEG inside of the container.

Contributing

You are welcome to contribute by submitting a Pull Request to the repository.

Author

Gabriel Tanner

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details