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 AndroidTestsuite() });

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:

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

// 'youtube' is the variable holding your YoutubeAudioSourceManager instance.
rotator.forConfiguration(youtube.getHttpInterfaceManager(), false)
    .withMainDelegateFilter(youtube.getContextFilter()) // IMPORTANT
    .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 AndroidTestsuiteWithThumbnail() });

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_TESTSUITE
      - WEB
      - TVHTML5EMBEDDED

Advanced Options

    # The below section of the config allows setting specific options for each client, such as the requests they will handle.
    # If an option, or client, is unspecified, then the default option value/client values will be used instead.
    # If a client is configured, but is not registered above, the options for that client will be ignored.
    # WARNING!: THE BELOW CONFIG IS FOR ILLUSTRATION PURPOSES. DO NOT COPY OR USE THIS WITHOUT
    # WARNING!: UNDERSTANDING WHAT IT DOES. MISCONFIGURATION WILL HINDER YOUTUBE-SOURCE'S ABILITY TO WORK PROPERLY.

    # Write the names of clients as they are specified under the heading "Available Clients".
    WEB:
      # Example: Disabling a client's playback capabilities.
      playback: false
    TVHTML5EMBEDDED:
      # Example: Configuring a client to exclusively be used for playback.
      playlistLoading: false # Disables loading of playlists and mixes.
      videoLoading: false # Disables loading of videos for this client (does not affect playback).
      searching: false # Disables the ability to search for videos.

Important

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

lavalink:
  server:
    sources:
      youtube: false

Note

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:).
  • ❌ Cannot be used for playback.
• WEB
  • ✔ Opus formats.
• ANDROID
  • ❌ Heavily restricted, frequently dysfunctional.
• ANDROID_TESTSUITE
  • ✔ Opus formats.
  • ❌ No mix/playlist/livestream support. Advised to use in conjunction with other clients.
• ANDROID_LITE
  • ❌ No Opus formats (requires transcoding).
  • ❌ Restricted similarly to ANDROID_TESTSUITE (except livestreams are playable).
• ANDROID_MUSIC
  • ✔ Opus formats.
  • ❌ No playlist support.
• MEDIA_CONNECT
  • ❌ No Opus formats (requires transcoding).
  • ❌ No mix/playlist/search support.
• IOS
  • ❌ No Opus formats (requires transcoding).
• TVHTML5EMBEDDED
  • ✔ Opus formats.
  • ✔ Age-restricted video playback.

Migration from Lavaplayer's built-in YouTube source

This client is intended as a direct replacement for Lavaplayer's built-in YoutubeAudioSourceManager, which has been deprecated in a recent release of Lavalink-Devs/Lavaplayer.

When using AudioSourceManagers.registerRemoteSources(AudioPlayerManager), Lavaplayer will register its own deprecated YoutubeAudioSourceManager, which must be disabled. Some versions of Lavaplayer may include an optional excludeSources parameter, allowing you to toggle the adding of the source. If the version you are using does not support this, you will need to manually register each AudioSourceManager yourself.

First, create and register an instance of the supported YoutubeAudioSourceManager from the youtube-source package.

AudioPlayerManager playerManager = new DefaultAudioPlayerManager();
YoutubeAudioSourceManager ytSourceManager = new dev.lavalink.youtube.YoutubeAudioSourceManager();
playerManager.registerSourceManager(ytSourceManager);

If your version of Lavaplayer supports an excludeSources parameter or equivalent, you may exclude the built-in YoutubeAudioSourceManager using the following:

AudioSourceManagers.registerRemoteSources(playerManager,
                                          com.sedmelluq.discord.lavaplayer.source.youtube.YoutubeAudioSourceManager.class);

Otherwise, you will need to register each source manager individually.

In addition, there are a few significant changes 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.

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