SoundWave is a YouTube audio playback bot in discord. SoundWave will join the voice channel you are in and play the content you have chosen, it allows you to play through a link to a Youtube video or playlist, or by a normal search.
In order to install SoundWave on your Discord server you will need to download/install the following:
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NodeJS: If you want to run the bot on your computer without the need to have a server to host the bot you must install NodeJS from its official web site.
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Source code: You must download the source code of the bot, to do so you can run
git fork https://github.com/RubenFern/SoundWave-Bot-Discord.gitOr, if you don't have Git, download it directly from the Code - Download ZIP button.
- Discord application: You must create your Discord application, here is a link to a page where it explains how Tutorial.
For the bot to work you must:
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Rename the file
config.json.exampletoconfig.json. -
Fill in the fields it has inside:
- token: It is the token you generate when you create your application at (https://discord.com/developers/applications).
- clientId: It is the ID of the bot. You can access it from (https://discord.com/developers/applications) after creating the application.
- guildId: It is the ID of the server where the Bot is going to be installed.
- API_KEY: This is the Youtube Data API v3 API key. You can create one at (https://console.cloud.google.com).
To execute it, all you have to do is open a console terminal, go to the project directory and execute.
node index.jsTo end the execution you can press Ctrl + C.
The commands available to the Bot are:
- /play: You can play songs or videos (audio only) from Youtube. To do this you must execute.
/play [link_video]/[link_playlist]/[search_by_text]-
/stop: You can stop the entire playback of the ones you are listening to.
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/next: You can skip to the next song (if it exists).
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/pause: You can pause the song you are listening to.
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/continue: You can continue playing what you were listening to.