Parrot
🦜 A hassle-free, highly performant, self-hosted Discord music bot with YouTube and Spotify support. Powered by yt-dlp.
Install / Use
/learn @aquelemiguel/ParrotREADME
Deployment
Usage
Just create a bot account, and copy its token and application id to a .env with the DISCORD_TOKEN and DISCORD_APP_ID environment variables respectively. Optionally, you may also define SPOTIFY_CLIENT_ID and SPOTIFY_CLIENT_SECRET. We recommend using our .env.example as a starting point.
Docker
docker run -d --env-file .env --restart unless-stopped --name parrot ghcr.io/aquelemiguel/parrot:latest
Development
Make sure you've installed Rust. You can install Rust and its package manager, cargo by following the instructions on https://rustup.rs/.
After installing the requirements below, simply run cargo run.
Linux/MacOS
The commands below install a C compiler, GNU autotools and FFmpeg, as well as yt-dlp through Python's package manager, pip.
Linux
apt install build-essential autoconf automake libtool ffmpeg
pip install -U yt-dlp
MacOS
brew install autoconf automake libtool ffmpeg
pip install -U yt-dlp
Windows
If you are using the MSVC toolchain, a prebuilt DLL for Opus is already provided for you.
You will only need to download FFmpeg, and install yt-dlp which can be done through Python's package manager, pip.
pip install -U yt-dlp
If you are using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), you should follow the Linux/MacOS guide, and, in addition to the other required packages, install pkg-config, which you may do by running:
apt install pkg-config
Testing
Tests are available inside the src/tests folder. They can be run via cargo test. It's recommended that you run the tests before submitting your Pull Request.
Increasing the test coverage is also welcome.
Docker
Within the project folder, simply run the following:
docker build -t parrot .
docker run -d --env-file .env parrot
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