Play-dl

A light-weight YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Deezer streaming and searching library.

- Search by video, playlist/album, channel/artist
- Stream audio from YouTube and SoundCloud

Why play-dl ?

ytdl-core has some issues with miniget and also stream abort issues. On the other hand, youtube-dl is a perfect alternative but it takes time to launch. Hence, play-dl is created to avoid these issues along with providing comparatively faster performance than others.


Support

You can contact us for support on our chat server.

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Node.js 16.0.0 or newer is required.

``bash
npm install play-dl@latest
pnpm add play-dl@latest
yarn add play-dl@latest
`

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TypeScript:
`ts
import play from 'play-dl'; // Everything

import { video_basic_info, stream } from 'play-dl'; // Individual functions
`

CommonJS modules:
`js
const play = require('play-dl'); // Everything

// Individual functions by using destructuring
const { video_basic_info, stream } = require('play-dl');
`

ES6 modules:
`ts
import play from 'play-dl'; // Everything

import { video_basic_info, stream } from 'play-dl'; // Individual functions
`

Compatibility issues - discord-player



Because discord-player doesn't work with raw opus packets you need to enable the compatibility mode in play-dl, if you want to use both frameworks together.

- To fix the playback of YouTube videos with discord-player, you can disable some of play-dl's optimisations and fixes by setting the discordPlayerCompatibility option for stream and stream_from_info to true

- The discordPlayerCompatiblity option might break the playback of long YouTube videos.

- Even with the discordPlayerCompatibility option set you will not be able to use the seek option for stream and stream_from_info`.

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