flyingwr / ytdownloadbot

Simple discord bot that converts YouTube videos to downloadable media

ytdownloadbot

A simple discord.py bot that converts YouTube videos to downloadable media using pytube

• How to setup
• Limitations
• Requirements

How to setup

Install the required packages with pip:

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

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Create a .env file and enter your discord token using TOKEN variable:

TOKEN=YOUR_DISCORD_TOKEN

You can clone the repository and change file .env.example to .env to make things easier

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Run the main file

python bot.py

Once it's online, use .help to see the list of commands (either through a private or a guild channel message)

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Limitations

• This bot only have the basic functionalities as it's not fully complete
• This bot sends the fetched media as attached files. That said, keep in mind that discord's file size limit is >8MB and it's not possible to be bypassed. The recommended option to fix that is by using a server to host files and providing their links to download instead of attaching them directly to discord
• Currently the only accepted media formats are mp3 and mp4. You can change it by yourself once you're aware of this bot backend operations and pytube documentation as well
• There's no download/connection error handling. Only basic errors are handled

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Requirements (Python)

asyncio
discord.py
moviepy
python-dotenv
pytube

All required modules are listed in requirements.txt