Re:Google has killed Discord's best music bot
by notamy on Thursday August 26, 2021 @01:46PM
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> 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.
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