Basic discord bot using discord js

General

This is a basic Discord music bot that can play music from YouTube and other sources. It has the basic functionality of a music bot.

Features

The bot can play music from YouTube, SoundCloud, Apple Music and Spotify and has a queue system. It also has some commands and buttons to control the music and the bot itself.

Before starting

Prerequisites

To run the bot, you need to have Node.js installed on your machine. You can download it from the official Node.js website. You also need to have ffmpeg installed on your machine. You can download it from the official ffmpeg website.

Setup

To set up the bot, you need to create a new application on the Discord Developer Portal, create a .env file in the root directory of the project and copy the token of the bot into this file like this:

TOKEN=xxx

Developing & testing

For testing, you can change the testServer and devs properties in config.json file to your test server id and your developers discord id's.
Now you can run the bot with the argument --test to start the bot in development mode, where new commands only get registered on your testServer.
Pay attention, that the already registered commands will still be available on all servers.

Running the bot

To run the bot, you need to open a terminal in the root directory of the project and run the command npm run src/index.js.

If you want to run the bot in development mode, you can run the command npm run src/index.js --test.

If you don't want to develop the bot, you can also run the bot as a docker container from docker hub with the command docker run -d --env TOKEN=xxx paulmueser/musicbotdocker.

Commands

Misc

• ping - Pong!

Music Control

• bereit - plays "be prepared" from "The Lion King" (german version) on repeat
• ghostbusters - plays the ghostbusters theme on repeat
• ketchup - plays the ketchup song on repeat
• lillifee - plays the lillifee dance on repeat
• metronom - plays the metronom song on repeat
• pause - pauses the music
• play {song} - plays a song
• queue - shows the current queue
• resume - resumes the music
• scar - plays "The Madness of King Scar" from "The Lion King" (german version) on repeat
• shuffle - shuffles the queue
• skip - skips the current song
• stop - stops playing music and disconnects from the channel
• surprise - plays a random song from the surprise list (see surprise.js)
• toggleloop - toggles the loop mode
• whosthatwonderfulgirl - plays the song "Who's that wonderful girl" on repeat