You shouldn't be using youtube_dl or any YouTube related tool to play music

[TheophileDiot]

Google's YouTube started hunting discord bot who are using youtube to play music. We can take example of the recent shutdowns of the music bots Groovy and Rythm.

Google's YouTube said:

We notified Groovy of a violation of our terms of service, including modification of the service and its use for commercial purposes.

So I think it would be better to wait until a new tool is created which is validated/approved by YouTube if you don't want any problem in the future.

Here are links to a couple articles treating this subject : Groovy bot is dead - YouTube killed Discord's most popular music bot, Rythm

[jurienhamaker]

I would like to second the above. I came across an article on pythonawesome even though it was just the readme of this repo. But besides that. I would not recommend building a music bot right now. Octave is down for the same reasons as the above mentioned Groovy & Rythm and people are taking precautions because of that.

[manuel-covas]

This is different in a way. It's not a service hosted on a server that is streaming audio to everyone's voice channel, thus redistributing music from YouTube without permission, it's a software for people to run themselves. True that it will be streaming music to peoples' voice channels on discord and possibly more people but it's no longer a service or the authors doing it, they only wrote some software. It would be like going after the devs of Torrent clients because people are using it to share copyrighted movies. The youtube-dl DMCA takedown and how it was a flop also comes to mind. I'm not trying to give legal advice or anything just pointing out a difference.

[amanjha8100]

Hey guys this is just the code written by me and If anybody is using the code then its there personal responsibility. Thank you for your views, I appreciate this.