discordyt

Self-hosted Discord bot that supports playback of YouTube videos in voice channels.

Setup

1. Install go
2. Install ffmpeg
   1. sudo apt install ffmpeg
3. Install yt-dlp
   1. Download yt-dlp executable version
   2. Move to /usr/local/bin
   3. Make executable (chmod +x)
4. Clone repo
5. Copy .env-sample
6. Set bot properties
7. Set youtube api key
8. Set path to store store downloaded songs and log files
9. "go run cmd/discordyt/* ENV_FILE"
10. Or "go install cmd/discordyt/*"
    1. Executable will be installed in $GOPATH, which is $HOME/go by default, so recommend adding ~/go/bin to PATH
11. Optional
    1. Setup a cron job to keep the app alive
    2. Setup a cron job to delete files in song folder

(I still need to elaborate on some of the steps here)