discord-player-youtubei

Discord Player YouTubei

This is a preview the v7 version of the YouTube system that discord-player will be using made backwards compatible with v6.

• Warning: the documentation on GitHub is for the edge version of this package. Refer to this for more information

Installation

$ npm install discord-player-youtubei
# ----------- or -----------
$ yarn add discord-player-youtubei

Usage

Typescript and ESM

import { YoutubeiExtractor } from "discord-player-youtubei"

const player = useMainPlayer() // or new Player()

player.extractors.register(YoutubeiExtractor, {})

CommonJS

const { YoutubeiExtractor } = require("discord-player-youtubei")

const player = useMainPlayer() // or new Player()

player.extractors.register(YoutubeiExtractor, {})

I have seen many people registering the extractor in their commands. DO NOT DO THIS

How Discord Player Youtubei handles bridging

As of 1.2.1, discord-player-youtubei will detect if you are signed in or not and will use YouTube music streaming system. If this is not available, the extractor will use normal YouTube.

You can override this behavior using the overrideBridgeMode option. See the extractor options below for more information regarding the types

Signing into YouTube

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First this command

$ npx --no discord-player-youtubei

The token will be printed out shortly

In case of errors, you can directly run the generateOauthTokens function exported by discord-player-youtubei

import { YoutubeiExtractor } from "discord-player-youtubei"

const player = useMainPlayer()
/**
 * getOauthTokens is not a real function exported by discord-player-youtubei.
 * It is simply a placeholder for the actual oauth tokens
 * 
 * Do not just put in access token. Put in the entire string.
 */
const oauthTokens = getOauthTokens() // The tokens printed from step above

player.extractors.register(YoutubeiExtractor, {
  authentication: oauthTokens,
  generateWithPoToken: true,
  streamOptions: {
    useClient: "WEB"
  }
})

Types

StreamOptions

name	type	description	required
useClient	InnerTubeClient	Which client to get the stream from	false
highWaterMark	number	How many bytes the stream can hold. The more bytes allocated, the smoother the stream at the cost of more memory usage	false

YoutubeiOptions

name	type	description
authentication	string	The auth token
overrideDownloadOptions	DownloadOptions	Override the default download options
createStream	fn (q, ext): Promise<string|Readable>	Override the streaming function
signOutOnDeactive	boolean	Revoke the tokens after deactivation
overrideBridgeMode	"ytmusic" or "yt"	Override the bridging behavior
streamOptions	StreamOptions	Configure streaming behavior
disablePlayer	boolean	Disable the JavaScript player. Use ANDROID client for streaming when using this
innertubeConfigRaw	InntertubeConfigRaw	Options passed to .create()
cookie	string	The cookies passed to innertube similar to ytdl cookies
proxy	ProxyAgent	Define a proxy to route all the requests
peers	PeerInfo	Stream from peers allowing to bypass some IP block
generateWithPoToken	boolean	Create an instance with PoToken. Only works with "WEB" client

PeerInfo

name	type	description
url	string	The base URL of the peer
parse	ParserFunction?	Parse the URL for the peer for streaming

ParserFunction

RAW: (url: string, id: string) => string

Parameters

name	index	type	description
url	0	string	The base URL of the peer
id	1	string	The YouTube video ID

Return

The function must return a string that is a URL that returns an audio stream when requested

Raw Types

export interface PeerInfo {
  url: string;
  parse?: (url: string, id: string) => string;
}
export interface YoutubeiOptions {
  authentication?: string;
  overrideDownloadOptions?: DownloadOptions;
  createStream?: (
    q: Track,
    extractor: YoutubeiExtractor,
  ) => Promise<string | Readable>;
  signOutOnDeactive?: boolean;
  streamOptions?: StreamOptions;
  overrideBridgeMode?: "ytmusic" | "yt" | QueryBridgeModes;
  disablePlayer?: boolean;
  ignoreSignInErrors?: boolean;
  innertubeConfigRaw?: InnerTubeConfig;
  cookie?: string;
  proxy?: ProxyAgent;
  peers?: PeerInfo[];
  slicePlaylist?: boolean;
  useServerAbrStream?: boolean;
  generateWithPoToken?: boolean;
}

Functions

class	function	params	static	description
YoutubeiExtractor	setClientMode	InnerTubeClient	true	Set the innertube client on the fly

Something isn't working?

Try installing an alpha or a beta build using npm install discord-player-youtubei@alpha or npm install discord-player-youtubei@beta. If no beta has been released, you can test the edge version by installing directly from github using npm install github:retrouser955/discord-player-youtubei --save If this still does not work or you installed a version that is lower than the main version, feel free to open an issue on our GitHub page

If you know how to fix it, please clone this repository and send us a pull request. As this is an open source project, any contributions are welcome!

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Notice Regarding YouTube Streaming

Streaming from YouTube is against their Terms of Service (ToS). Refer to LEGAL.md to view the risks using YouTube.