Tune-a, a music bot for Discord

Inspiration

Inspired by other Discord Music bots, as well as friends that created their own.

What it does

Allows the user to search and play YouTube videos.

How we built it

Using our limited Python and discord.py skills, we managed to figure out how to get the bot to run, then to parse a command, and with the help of the youtube-dl package, we got searching and streaming audio working.

Challenges we ran into

Many exceptions had to be caught since not all input are valid, and since Python is not the main language for most of us, we ran into a lot of errors, did things that were far more complicated than if we had used advanced Python topics such as list comprehension.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We created a functional, practical Discord bot within 48 hours, which is a huge accomplishment for our team of beginners to both Python and the discord api.

What we learned

The internet (stack overflow) is super helpful, and we learned a lot of Python syntax that we wouldn't have otherwise had we not done this.

What's next for Tune-a for Discord

Adding more features like being able to queue songs, and more robust media controls.

Built With

• discord.py
• python
• youtube-dl