Rhythm Bot

Rhythm-Bot 2.1.5 Search / Rich Text / Buttons!

• New search command anything after !search will be searched against youtube and return the top 3 results
• Press the thumbs up reaction emoji to add the item to your queue
  • Note that you will want to give the bot permission to remove emojis in the text channel, this is the MANAGE_MESSAGES permission
• Node version has updated from 10.x.x to 12.x.x due to discord.js update
• New npm packages to install
• Replaced dependence on manually installing ffmpeg
  • Now ffmpeg is installed via npm with ffmpeg-static when you do a simple npm install
• In addition to the reaction button interaction on the search command you can now use buttons for the new playing control

Note: This is not the bot listed here https://rythmbot.co/

Description

Simple little music bot to queue up and play youtube audio over discord voice channels.

Bot Commands

• Show some helpful info

  !help

• Search for a video on YouTube

  !youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

• Join your voice channel

  !join

• Start the queue

  !play

• Search for a song

  !search don't stop believin

• List songs in the queue

  !list

• Shuffle the queue

  !shuffle

• Clear the queue

  !clear

• Move song in queue

  !move [targetIndex] [up/down/destIndex]

• Save queue as playlist

  !playlist save my_awesome_playlist

• Load playlist to queue

  !playlist load my_awesome_playlist

• Delete playlist

  !playlist delete my_less_awesome_playlist

• List playlists

  !playlist list

Bot Hosting

Unlisted dependencies

• Python2.7 This version is required for node-gyp I think?
• node-gyp command line tool
• node.js version 12.X.X or higher is required
• typescript types for javascript, enables easier group collaboration and simple right click to look up definitions

Installation

• Install node latest stable release, this was built with node v12.16.1
• For windows run npm install --global --production --add-python-to-path windows-build-tools
  • Run npm install node-gyp -g
  • Run npm install typescript -g
  • Run npm install

Configuration

• Get a token string for your bot from by registering your bot here: https://discordapp.com/developers
  • Create an invite link like this https://discordapp.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id={ APPLICATION ID }&permissions=2159044672&scope=bot
• Open bot-config.json and replace the content between the quotes "<BOT-TOKEN-HERE>" with your bot token.
  • In config you can add other settings, to see an example of the settings open ./src/bot/config.ts and look at DefaultBotConfig and BotConfig for examples
• Open bot.log if you're looking to debug errors

Running the Application

• Run npm start