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Re:Google has killed Discord's best music bot by rchaud on Thursday August 26, 2021 @01:30PM (#28317873)
Well, yeah...anything that depends on a third party API will last only as long as the API owner is OK with it.

10 years ago, back when Windows Phone was a thing, Google wouldn't make an official WP app for Youtube. So somebody created MetroTube, a native YT client. Incredible app, with a completely seamless experience.

Then Google changed its API rules and it was dead in under a year.

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Re:Google has killed Discord's best music bot by notamy on Thursday August 26, 2021 @01:46PM (#28318110)
> anything that depends on a third party API will last only as long as the API owner is OK with it.

Discord bots generally use a library like lavaplayer[0] to scrape YouTube for music streaming purposes; no API access per se. It was always at best a grey area, especially since many large bots rotate through IPv6 blocks to avoid YouTube's IP bans.

[0] https://github.com/sedmelluq/lavaplayer

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Re:Google has killed Discord's best music bot by danuker on Thursday August 26, 2021 @01:43PM (#28318071)
There is NewPipe for Android if anyone is interested (just not on Play Store of course).

https://newpipe.net/

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