youtube-source

A rewritten YouTube source manager for Lavaplayer.

This source aims to provide robustness by leveraging multiple InnerTube clients for requests. Where one client fails, another will try to load the request. Which clients are used is entirely configurable.

common

This module provides the base source manager, which can be used with any com.sedmelluq.discord.lavaplayer packages still on major version 1.

Using in Gradle:

repositories {
  // replace with https://maven.lavalink.dev/snapshots if you want to use a snapshot version.
  maven(url = "https://maven.lavalink.dev/releases")
}

dependencies {
  // Replace VERSION with the current version as shown by the Releases tab or a long commit hash `-SNAPSHOT` for snapshots.
  implementation("dev.lavalink.youtube:common:VERSION")
}

Example usage:

YoutubeAudioSourceManager youtube = new YoutubeAudioSourceManager();
// Optionally, you may instantiate the source with a custom options, such as toggling use of searching, and clients.
YoutubeAudioSourceManager youtube = new YoutubeAudioSourceManager(/*allowSearch:*/ true, new Client[] { new Music(), new Web(), new Android() });

You may also extend the Client interface to support additional InnerTube clients. There are a few abstract classes to make this easier, notably, MusicClient (for music.youtube.com InnerTube clients), NonMusicClient (for youtube.com innertube clients) and StreamingNonMusicClient (for clients that can be used to stream videos).

Support for IP rotation has been included, and can be achieved using the following:

AbstractRouterPlanner routePlanner = new ...
YoutubeIpRotatorSetup rotator = new YoutubeIpRotatorSetup(routePlanner);

rotator.forConfiguration(youtube.getHttpInterfaceManager(), false)
    .withMainDelegateFilter(null) // This is important, otherwise you may get NullPointerExceptions.
    .setup();

v2

This modules expands on common by providing additional support for Lavaplayer 2.x clients, such as Lavalink-Devs/Lavaplayer. Such features currently include thumbnail support within AudioTrackInfo. Additional clients are included that provide access to this additional information. These clients are suffixed with Thumbnail, such as WebWithThumbnail, AndroidWithThumbnail etc.

Using in Gradle:

repositories {
  // replace with https://maven.lavalink.dev/snapshots if you want to use a snapshot version.
  maven(url = "https://maven.lavalink.dev/releases")
}

dependencies {
  // Replace VERSION with the current version as shown by the Releases tab or a long commit hash `-SNAPSHOT` for snapshots.
  implementation("dev.lavalink.youtube:v2:VERSION")
}

Example usage:

// same as the 'common' module but there are additional clients that provide video thumbnails in the returned metadata.
YoutubeAudioSourceManager youtube = new YoutubeAudioSourceManager(/*allowSearch:*/ true, new Client[] { new MusicWithThumbnail(), new WebWithThumbnail(), new AndroidWithThumbnail() });

plugin

This module serves as the plugin for use with Lavalink.

To use this plugin with Lavalink, you must declare the dependency.

Using with Lavalink v3:

lavalink:
  plugins:
    # Replace VERSION with the current version as shown by the Releases tab or a long commit hash for snapshots.
    - dependency: "dev.lavalink.youtube:youtube-plugin:VERSION"
      repository: "https://maven.lavalink.dev/releases" # use https://maven.lavalink.dev/snapshots if you want to use a snapshot version.

Using with Lavalink v4:

lavalink:
  plugins:
    # Replace VERSION with the current version as shown by the Releases tab or a long commit hash for snapshots.
    - dependency: "dev.lavalink.youtube:youtube-plugin:VERSION"
      snapshot: false # Set to true if you want to use a snapshot version.

Configuring the plugin:

plugins:
  youtube:
    enabled: true # Whether this source can be used.
    allowSearch: true # Whether "ytsearch:" and "ytmsearch:" can be used.
    allowDirectVideoIds: true # Whether just video IDs can match. If false, only complete URLs will be loaded.
    allowDirectPlaylistIds: true # Whether just playlist IDs can match. If false, only complete URLs will be loaded.
    # The clients to use for track loading. See below for a list of valid clients.
    # Clients are queried in the order they are given (so the first client is queried first and so on...)
    clients:
      - MUSIC
      - ANDROID
      - WEB
    # You can configure individual clients with the following.
    # Any options or clients left unspecified will use their default values,
    # which enables everything for all clients.
    WEB: # names are specified as they are written below under "Available Clients".
      # This will disable using the WEB client for video playback.
      playback: false
    TVHTML5EMBEDDED:
      # The below config disables everything except playback for this client.
      playlistLoading: false # Disables loading of playlists and mixes for this client.
      videoLoading: false # Disables loading of videos for this client (playback is still allowed).
      searching: false # Disables the ability to search for videos for this client.

Important

You must make sure to disable the built-in YouTube source like so:

lavalink:
  server:
    sources:
      youtube: false

Existing options, such as ratelimit and youtubePlaylistLoadLimit will be picked up automatically by the plugin, so these don't need changing.

Available Clients

Currently, the following clients are available for use:

• MUSIC
  • Provides support for searching YouTube music (ytmsearch:)
  • This client CANNOT be used to play tracks. You must also register one of the below clients for track playback.
• WEB
• ANDROID
• ANDROID_TESTSUITE
  • This client has restrictions imposed, notably: it does NOT support loading of mixes or playlists, and it is unable to yield any supported formats when playing livestreams. It is advised not to use this client on its own for that reason, if those features are required.
• ANDROID_LITE
  • This client does not receive Opus formats so transcoding is required.
  • Similar restrictions to that of ANDROID_TESTSUITE except livestreams are playable.
• MEDIA_CONNECT
  • This client does not receive Opus formats so transcoding is required.
  • This client has restrictions imposed, including but possibly not limited to:
    • Unable to load playlists.
    • Unable to use search.
• IOS
  • This client does not receive Opus formats, so transcoding is required. This can increase resource consumption. It is recommended not to use this client unless it has the least priority (specified last), or where hardware usage is not a concern.
• TVHTML5EMBEDDED
  • This client is useful for playing age-restricted tracks. Do keep in mind that, even with this client enabled, age-restricted tracks are not guaranteed to play.

Migration from Lavaplayer's built-in YouTube source

This client is intended to be a drop-in replacement, however there are a couple of things to note:

• This source's class structure differs so if you had custom classes that you were initialising the source manager with (e.g. an overridden YoutubeTrackDetailsLoader), this is not compatible with this source manager.

• Support for logging into accounts as a means of playing age-restricted tracks has been removed, with the TVHTML5EMBEDDED client instead being the preferred workaround. There were a large number of reasons for this change, but not least the fact that logging in was slowly becoming problematic and deprecated on the YouTube backend. The amount of code to support this feature meant that it has been axed.

Additional Support

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