Discord YouTube Notifier

A selfhosted YouTube feed bot for Discord. Basically, this bot keeps you and your friends up-to-date with everything that's happening on YouTube. Or, if you are a YouTuber or YouTube livestreamer yourself, and like to forget to promote yourself like I do, this bot takes care of that too.

Features

• Multi YouTuber support (you can add as many as you want)
• Multi Discord channel support, so you can push the update feed in more than one server or channel at a time!
• Livestream support
• Custom messages for user uploads and livestreams!
  • Support for custom messages per channel!
• Easy yaml configuration file (config.yml)

Requirements

• Python 3.5
• Microsoft Windows, I do not have Linux and all the launchers are done in batch (The bot should in theory still run just fine on Linux in a terminal, you would have to install the requirements manualy, though. I do NOT know if you need anything else for it to work, though.)
• Discord.py
• PyYaml
• Google API Key (with YouTube Data API v3 activated), Tutorial in "Preparation"
• Registered Discord bot, Tutorial in "Preparation"

Preparation

• 1.) Install Python 3.5, and make sure it is included to your PATH.
• 2.) In order to obtain an Google API Key (with YouTube Data API v3 activated) follow the Steps 1-3 here and then generate a key for the API. This key will later on go to the config file of the bot.
• 3.) Set up a discord bot, get the token and invite the bot to your server, by following this guide. The bot token will later on go to the config file of the bot.
• 4.) You need to enable developer mode in your discord client to obtain the channel ID's you want the feed to appear on. Do so by going to your User settings -> Appearance -> Tick "Developer Mode" in the ADVANCED tab.
• 5.) Obtain the channel ID(s) by right clicking the channel and then clicking "Copy ID".
• 6.) Obtain a user ID by right clicking the username and then clicking "Copy ID" (optional).
• 7.) Get the YouTube channel ID(s). This is done in 2 ways:
  • Visit the YouTube channel and then copy the channel from the URL, for example:
    • Going to LinusTechTips gives you this URL in the URL bar of your browser: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw
    • The channel ID in that case is "UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw". Copy it.
  • Some YouTubers hide their channel ID completely and only show their username. In order to obtain the channel ID for them, we have to use this external site: http://johnnythetank.github.io/youtube-channel-name-converter/
    • e.g. entering "PewDiePie" into the "Youtube username" field will return "UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw". this is the one you want to copy.

Configuration

Configuration is done by editing the config.yaml file. I would suggest using an editor like Notepad++ to edit the file.

• In the first section in "connection" you will have to enter your YouTube v3 API Key that you have obtained earlier in Step #2 of Preparation. Just copy and paste it into the field, so that this:

        Google API key: # YouTube v3 API Key

Will look like something like this:

        Google API key: 4P9nlidzQdMCxCzDymrUDpNwapMQ5jqC # YouTube v3 API Key

• Then you need to provide your discord bot token you have obtained in Step #3 in Preparation. Again, just copy and paste it, so that this:

        Discord bot token: # Discord bot token

Becomes something like this:

        Discord bot token: 7PGNyakySQu8ZH0T3Y7EDldSnHKlOGbL.SFTM7Zq38J-aDR2pflmUS # Discord bot token

• You can specify the time period in minutes the bot will check the YouTube channels for new content. I do not recommend going lower than 5 minutes though, because your daily use of queries is limited and can be used up very quickly that way. Just change the "5" to whatever you desire.

        Ping Every x Minutes: 5 # at least 5 minutes should be ok, anything lower not recommended, because the API traffic will be used up very quickly otherwise.

• I have included 2 Discord channelID placeholders as an example in the config:

        0:
            channelID: # Discord channel ID
        1:
            channelID: # Discord channel ID

You can expand those further by copying it and incrementing the number correspondingly. In this example 4:

        0:
            channelID: # Discord channel ID
        1:
            channelID: # Discord channel ID
        2:
            channelID: # Discord channel ID
        3:
            channelID: # Discord channel ID

Then you need to provide your discord channel ID(s) you have obtained in Step #5 in Preparation. Again, just copy and paste it:

        0:
            channelID: 3C2DCFC6DCA9761B # Discord channel ID
        1:
            channelID: 69387236D19A2C12 # Discord channel ID

IMPORTANT: if you only use 1 channel, you need to delete all other entries:

        0:
            channelID: 3C2DCFC6DCA9761B # Discord channel ID

• Now you can specify the YouTubers that you want to push on your discord. Again, I have included placeholders for 2 channels as an example:

        0:
            name: # Name that will be displayed in discord, mentions can be used with <@DiscordUserID>
            channelID: # YouTube Channel ID
        1:
            name: # Name that will be displayed in discord, mentions can be used with <@DiscordUserID>
            channelID: # YouTube Channel ID

Again, you can expand them by copying and incrementing accordingly. In this example 4:

        0:
            name: # Name that will be displayed in discord, mentions can be used with <@DiscordUserID>
            channelID: # YouTube Channel ID
        1:
            name: # Name that will be displayed in discord, mentions can be used with <@DiscordUserID>
            channelID: # YouTube Channel ID
        2:
            name: # Name that will be displayed in discord, mentions can be used with <@DiscordUserID>
            channelID: # YouTube Channel ID
        3:
            name: # Name that will be displayed in discord, mentions can be used with <@DiscordUserID>
            channelID: # YouTube Channel ID

Then you need to provide your channel ID(s) you have obtained in Step #7 in Preparation. Again, just copy and paste it:

        0:
            name: # Name that will be displayed in discord, mentions can be used with <@DiscordUserID>
            channelID: UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw # YouTube Channel ID
        1:
            name: # Name that will be displayed in discord, mentions can be used with <@DiscordUserID>
            channelID: UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw # YouTube Channel ID

And then provide a name for them. Note, this name is displayed on discord:

        0:
            name: LinusTechTips # Name that will be displayed in discord, mentions can be used with <@DiscordUserID>
            channelID: UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw # YouTube Channel ID
        1:
            name: PewDiePie # Name that will be displayed in discord, mentions can be used with <@DiscordUserID>
            channelID: UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw # YouTube Channel ID

Useful if you are a YouTuber yourself and want to automaticaly promote yourself: You can @mention yourself instead of giving a static name by typing <@DiscordUserID> (Replace DiscordUserID with your actual discord user ID you obtained in Step #6 of Preparation):

        0:
            name: <@32C6E424B5212> # Name that will be displayed in discord, mentions can be used with <@DiscordUserID>
            channelID: UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw # YouTube Channel ID
        1:
            name: <@7E169455DF2EC> # Name that will be displayed in discord, mentions can be used with <@DiscordUserID>
            channelID: UC-lHJZR3Gqxm24_Vd_AJ5Yw # YouTube Channel ID

AGAIN, IMPORTANT: if you only use 1 channel, you need to delete all other entries:

        0:
            name: LinusTechTips # Name that will be displayed in discord, mentions can be used with <@DiscordUserID>
            channelID: UCXuqSBlHAE6Xw-yeJA0Tunw # YouTube Channel ID

• You can have custom messages for when a user uploads something or is currently livestreaming:

        New video: ":film_frames: **{0} HAS UPLOADED A NEW VIDEO!** :film_frames:" # Message that appears when a YouTuber has uploaded a new video, user placeholder: {0}
        Livestream: ":red_circle: **{0} IS LIVESTREAMING NOW!** :red_circle:" # Message that appears when a YouTuber is livestreaming, user placeholder: {0}

• Make sure that your message is quoted (""). The following parameters can be used:
  • {0}
    • Name you specified in the YouTubers configuration
  • @everyone
    • Mention @everyone on Discord
  • <@DiscordUserID>
    • Mention a specific user on discord, ID can be obtained like described in Step #6 in Preparation.
  • :EmojiName:
    • In my example configuration file, I am using emoji's like 🎬 and 🔴. You can use all the emoji's with :EmojiName:. Emoji names can be obtained by clicking on the emoji symbol on the right in the Discord textchat, and a mouseover will reveal the plain text that you need to enter.

Installation

Make sure you have Python 3.5 installed. Then run the file update_deps.bat by double clicking. This should automaticaly install all the python requirements you will need for this bot to function. Aaaand.. that's all, you are ready to run the bot now.

Running

Run the bot by opening the runbot.bat file.