YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, Deezer searching and streaming for discord-js bots
npm install play-dlA light-weight YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and Deezer streaming and searching library.
- Search by video, playlist/album, channel/artist
- Stream audio from YouTube and SoundCloud
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.


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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
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
`
, 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`.