boat-discord

Inspiration

This project was made because of the shutdown of Groovy and Rhythm. This project was inspired by the connecting two APIs workshop.

What it does

Plays Music. It can play music from yt vids, yt playlists, yt livestreams and more.

How we built it

1. Set up the basic GitHub Repo
2. Use core commando functionality
3. Add the music commands

Challenges we ran into

• Syncing the commands together. Later we used Structures.extend discord.js feature to fix that issue

• Making ffmpeg work on every machine, without the complex installation Found the "ffmpeg-static" package which would install automatically, Now the bot is up and running after npm i

What we learned

• YouTube Data API v3
• Discord.js and Discord.js-Commando
• How to handle audio using ytdl-core in node

What's next for Boat

• Audio Effects
• Something like the linux man
• More platforms like Spotify