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Howdy! I've been looking for a workaround for YouTube as well. I use MusicBot for when I run a D&D campaign and I just wanted to thank you. I was originally going to ask for help on how to to integrate the fork, but just dropping the updated .jar file in the Documents folder and launching it got the bot to play YouTube links again. Should I worry about any of the other updated files you provided? |
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Unfortunately, I got it working just so it broke again today.... |
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Excuse me, how do I add a "new config option to enable the YouTube OAuth" in the Config.txt file ? I mean I copy paste what you write in the end of the Config file but it doesn't works. |
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You put this on a new line in your config file... |
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Yeah I did... |
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MusicBot didn't work for me, but this did; without enabling the YouTubeOAuth that I thought was the issue. Any idea why your version is working and not the main MusicBot? It isn't using my automatically signed in account right? Since I didn't have to go through any YouTube auth page I don't think it is.. |
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It is enough to change the version for lavaplayer to 2.2.2 and dev.lavalink.youtube to 1.7.0 That worked for me by using only the main branch from MusicBot, it is because dev.lavalink.youtube has added the the oauth sign in the version 1.7.0 and if not implemented the youtubetokenhandler, it will automatically create a guest token and it works similar as like a TV has access to play youtube videos without an account and uses a guest token. But this is just a guess, by quickly looking at changes in the repos. |
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As someone who is clueless, how would you actually go about changing the versions? |
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Excuse me hello, I use your file and it works for a few days just for the music bot to died again...Is there anything I can do to fix it ? Here is the error code [20:28:13] [INFO] [YoutubeAccessTokenTracker]: Updating YouTube visitor id succeeded, new one is CgtMLXV1VlRYYmV3RSiu1Mi4BjIKCgJBVRIEGgAgMzoMCAEgn9miyufFioln, next update will be after 600 seconds. |
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Use a burner YouTube account and follow the sign in link that the bot writes to you. This is because of the new oauth sign in, that YouTube added and it wants you to sign in with an account. If you still want to skip the sign in, then you can try to prevent that (asking for sign in) by changing a IP address, that sometimes works. And with a burner account to sign in, you at least do not get your own account deleted or suspended if YouTube/Google catches you. |
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Oh shoot, how do I get that link ? |
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If you are using this file https://github.com/d-pacheco/MusicBot/blob/master/MusicBot.jar |
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Not getting any direct message at all when starting it up... Am I missing something? I have followed the instructions to the letter so far, but no DM yet. |
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When you start the MusicBot.jar notice the path to the config file, is that the config.txt file that you are adding the When you want to sign into the burner account, please open a private/incognito browser window to be sure that you are not logging into your own YouTube account. After you have done the login, the token is kept in a text file named If this does not work, then you are doing something wrong. |
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Popping in to give a simpler alternative after this music bot stopped working with Youtube entirely (even with the fork). Made a simple bot to work with Youtube only for now, but with an extremely easy deployment process. |
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I'm pretty technically challenged and I don't get how to set all of that up. It was a long while back when I set this bot up, so none of it's fresh in my memory anymore. |
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Definitely nice of you to drop your Music Bot for people to check out. Just wanted to come in here and say the Fork still does work. I'm also not 100% on your music bot, I was reading through the code and I found it all over the place and just didn't seem well structured. I see you program as a hobby |
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@d-pacheco Hi, thanks for checking it out! The fork did work well for me for a few months but had been crashing the past few days, I may have missed an update or two that fixed the issue, but figured getting a new, easy and clean bot was better for my use case at least. What makes you say it's all over the place? It's only one file by design to keep it simple, as at the end of the day this is a music bot for Discord (which is for hobbyist communities anyway primarily), not sure what you mean by that statement. |
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This worked flawlessly for me after logging in with Oauth2! This should honestly be merged somehow. In my experience with yt-dlp, using cookies can be a bit more reliable then Oauth2. Its another option worth looking into. For anyone trying to figure out how to set it up, go to the repo, download the jar file, place it in the same directory as your broken bot, and run the new MusicBot.jar file. If it works out of the box, great. Otherwise, you need to actually use Oauth2, so add the If google doesn't accept it, it may say something like 'something went wrong', (which it hasn't for me in my past experience with yt-dlp Oauth2) then there's one option that MIGHT work. For me when I was trying Oauth2 with yt-dlp, I was running this all on an Oracle Cloud VM, but the authentication was happening on my local PC. I wanted to try using the VM as a VPN for personal use, so I set up WIreGuard. Since I already had my VPN set up before this authentication stuff, I just decided to use it. So I turned it on and followed the authentication steps, that way the prompt to sign in and the actual sign-in attempt appeared from the same IP, thus looking totally normal to google. I can't guarantee this will work for you though. |
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Actually its not exactly working flawlessly since I'm seeing some bizarre things 
For some reason, each message is duplicated? I mean its not exactly an issue since they seem to be in parallel, not 1 combined queue, but it is a bit strange. Nothing is in the console either. |
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I encountered the duplicated message thing earlier when I was trying to fix the bot. Turned out that it was because I tested the newer version locally, and forgot to turn off the old bugged bot which was running on a server. This made both version of the bot received the |
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I temporarily fixed it by making a new google account, though this may not be an optimal fix, but its better than nothing. |
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let me guess lava player dependency? |
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YouTube is rolling out a patch to the OAuth2 workaround. Additionally, YouTube has added some anti-bot measures we have yet to implement/workaround. |
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I have idea , let make one public server on gcloud which would work as proxy , google probably cant ban own hosted ips? |
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YouTube bans any IP that are obviously botting, including those from Google Cloud customers. Right now, most third party YouTube clients (including JMusicBot, youtube-dl/yt-dlp, etc.) stick out as obvious bots to YouTube, as they have begun enforcing Proof of Origin tokens. yt-dlp allows you to pass a PO token. I plan on adding a config option with JMusicBot, or perhaps even find a way to conveniently automate this process. Additionally, I intend on adding IPv6 rotation to JMusicBot, to hopefully reduce the likelihood of getting blocked from YouTube. |
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To create a Proof of Origin token (PO token), you'll need to ensure your requests to YouTube are properly authenticated with the necessary headers and tokens as outlined by YouTube's API , still it foils down to stuff of authentication, youtube can always introduce new methods of authen. |
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PO tokens are generated on the client, using Google's BotGuard. BotGuard provides a JavaScript challenge which the browser has to evaluate. From what I can gather, BotGuard makes use of of a bunch of Web/DOM APIs to ensure you are running the script on an actual browser & infers the result based on the result of those APIs. What BotGuard exactly does doesn't matter, as the resulting PO token can be easily extracted. It is bound to either your visitor id when logged out, or your session id when logged in. I intend on adding an option to provide the PO token (& visitor id) to JMusicBot. I also intend on adding IPv6 rotation for people on VPS's to hopefully further reduce the chances of IP bans. Yes, YouTube can always add further measures to prevent third party clients from playing YouTube videos. YouTube has always been (slowly) rolling out measures against third party clients for years now. It just happens that YouTube has the biggest library of music while being somewhat easy to access as a bot. (Compare that to e.g. Spotify which makes use of Widevine DRM, its much harder for a third party client to download & play tracks compared to YouTube.) JMusicBot & other third party YouTube clients will keep breaking & the community will continue to try keeping up with YouTube's changes, the cat & mouse has been around for ages now. |
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In theory, you could employ a headless browser like Brave or Chromium to simulate a full-fledged browser environment. This approach would involve loading YouTube directly in the headless browser, executing all its scripts (including BotGuard challenges), and then restreaming the processed output back to JMusicBot. If YouTube introduces even more stringent measures, an alternative would be to deploy a virtual machine (VM) running a full desktop Linux environment with a graphical browser. This setup would ensure compatibility with any future browser-based challenges or updates that YouTube might implement. While this essentially turns the system into a sophisticated proxy, it's undoubtedly a cumbersome solution. However, it ensures that no matter how complex YouTube's defenses become, the browser-based environment can handle them effectively. |
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I must add, youtube should better sell streaming as service, that we just buy the subscription and can run our bots headache free. |
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EDIT: As of right now the bot is currently broken. Will look into a fix and update the fork
I see there are a lot of people talking about how JMusicBot doesn't work for YouTube. I just wanted to put it here for those interested, I made a Fork that merged a few different pull requests together. Notably a YouTube fix, a dependency fix to build the project myself, and a makefile to build the project easier. Here is a link to my fork if anyone is interested:
https://github.com/d-pacheco/MusicBot
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To work with the new YouTube auth, you need to add
youtubeoauth2=trueto your config.txt file. Please note that you should be linking your google account with a burner google account, not your main accountI also added a way for you to run this as a docker container if you are running this on a Linux server for example.
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