Nextwave is a fork of the package Wavelink. Nextwave is a robust and powerful Lavalink wrapper for Nextcord.py. Nextwave features a fully asynchronous API that's intuitive and easy to use with built in Spotify Support and Node Pool Balancing.

Documentation

Nextwave Official Documentation .

Installation

The following commands are currently the valid ways of installing WaveLink.

Nextwave requires Python 3.8+

Windows

py -3.9 -m pip install -U nextwave

Linux

python3.9 -m pip install -U nextwave

Getting Started

A quick and easy bot example:

import nextwave
from nextcord.ext import commands


class Bot(commands.Bot):

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__(command_prefix='>?')

    async def on_ready(self):
        print('Bot is ready!')


class Music(commands.Cog):
    """Music cog to hold Wavelink related commands and listeners."""

    def __init__(self, bot: commands.Bot):
        self.bot = bot

        bot.loop.create_task(self.connect_nodes())

    async def connect_nodes(self):
        """Connect to our Lavalink nodes."""
        await self.bot.wait_until_ready()

        await nextwave.NodePool.create_node(bot=bot,
                                            host='0.0.0.0',
                                            port=2333,
                                            password='YOUR_LAVALINK_PASSWORD')

    @commands.Cog.listener()
    async def on_nextwave_node_ready(self, node: nextwave.Node):
        """Event fired when a node has finished connecting."""
        print(f'Node: <{node.identifier}> is ready!')

    @commands.command()
    async def play(self, ctx: commands.Context, *, search: nextwave.YouTubeTrack):
        """Play a song with the given search query.

        If not connected, connect to our voice channel.
        """
        if not ctx.voice_client:
            vc: nextwave.Player = await ctx.author.voice.channel.connect(cls=wavelink.Player)
        else:
            vc: nextwave.Player = ctx.voice_client

        await vc.play(search)


bot = Bot()
bot.add_cog(Music(bot))
bot.run('YOUR_BOT_TOKEN')

Lavalink Installation

Head to the official Lavalink repo and give it a star!

• Create a folder for storing Lavalink.jar and related files/folders.
• Copy and paste the example application.yml to application.yml in the folder we created earlier. You can open the yml in Notepad or any simple text editor.
• Change your password in the application.yml and store it in a config for your bot.
• Set local to true in the application.yml if you wish to use nextwave.LocalTrack for local machine search options... Otherwise ignore.
• Save and exit.
• Install Java 17(Windows) or Java 13+ on the machine you are running.
• Download Lavalink.jar and place it in the folder created earlier.
• Open a cmd prompt or terminal and change directory cd into the folder we made earlier.
• Run: java -jar Lavalink.jar

If you are having any problems installing Lavalink, please join the official Discord Server listed above for help.