Plex Discord Bot

Installation

Version of dependicies that work for me

npm: 5.8.0

node: v10.15.2 - package managers may install v12.x.x which could cause issues

ffmpeg 4.1.3-0ubuntu1

1. Install Node.js: https://nodejs.org/
2. If using Windows, I generally install Cmder as a console emulator to avoid issues: http://cmder.net/
3. Clone the repo or download a zip and unpackage it.
4. Navigate to the root folder and in the console, type npm install
   • You should see packages beginning to install
5. Once this is complete, go here: https://discordapp.com/developers/applications/me
   1. Log in or create an account
   2. Click New App
   3. Fill in App Name and anything else you'd like to include
   4. Click Create App
      • This will provide you with your Client ID and Client Secret
   5. Click Create Bot User
      • This will provide you with your bot Username and Token
6. Take all of the information from the page and enter it into the config/keys template.js file, replacing the placeholders.
7. Navigate to the config/plex template.js file and replace the placeholders with your Plex Server information
   1. To get your token, following the instructions here: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/204059436-Finding-an-authentication-token-X-Plex-Token
   2. To get your machineId or "machineIdentifier", follow the instructions here: https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201638786-Plex-Media-Server-URL-Commands
      • In the first example under "Base Server Capabilities", you can see the information returned when you type http://[PMS_IP_Address]:32400/?X-Plex-Token=YourTokenGoesHere into your address bar of a web browser. Copy everything between the quotes for the parameter "machineIdentifier" and paste it into the "machineId" property in config/plex template.js
   3. The identifier, product, version, and deviceName can be anything you want
8. The last thing you want to do locally is rename the config files to plex.js and keys.js which should be ignored by git to protect your privacy.
9. Once you have the configs set up correctly, you'll need to authorize your bot on a server you have administrative access to. For documentation, you can read: https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/topics/oauth2#bots. The steps are as follows:
   1. Go to https://discordapp.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=[CLIENT_ID]&scope=bot&permissions=1 where [CLIENT_ID] is the Discord App Client ID
   2. Select Add a bot to a server and select the server to add it to
   3. Click Authorize
   4. You should now see your bot in your server listed as Offline
10. To bring your bot Online, navigate to the root of the app (where index.js is located) and in your console, type node index.js
    • This will start your server. The console will need to be running for the bot to run.

If I am missing any steps, feel free to reach out or open an issue/bug in the Issues for this repository.

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Usage

1. Join a Discord voice channel.
2. Upon playing a song, the bot will join your channel and play your desired song.

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Commands

General commands

• !clear <number of messages> : removes messages within the last 14 days up to the number specified
• !shutdown : shuts the bot down if the user is an admin
• !ping : returns pong and logs the bots pings
• !leave : makes the bot leave the voice channel if its connected to one
• !join : makes the bot join the user's voice channel if they are connected to one

Playing from Plex

• !plexTest : a test to see make sure your Plex server is connected properly
• !clearqueue : clears all songs in queue
• !nextpage : get next page of songs if desired song is not listed
• !pause : pauses current song if one is playing
• !play <query to search for> : bot will join voice channel and play song if one song available. if more than one, bot will return a list to choose from
• !playsong <song number> : plays a song from the generated song list
• !playa <album> : plays an album
• !playartist <artist> : play an entire discography
• !removesong <song queue number> : removes song by index from the song queue
• !resume : resumes song if previously paused
• !skip : skips the current song if one is playing and plays the next song in queue if it exists
• !stop : stops song if one is playing
• !viewqueue : displays current song queue

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Customization

Update the config\keys template.js file with your information:

module.exports = {
  'clientId'      : 'DISCORD_CLIENT_ID',
  'clientSecret'  : 'DISCORD_CLIENT_SECRET',
  'username'      : 'DISCORD_BOT_USERNAME',
  'botToken'      : 'DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN',
};

And update the config\plex template.js file with your Plex information:

module.exports= {
  'hostname'    : 'PLEX_LOCAL_IP',
  'port'        : 'PLEX_LOCAL_PORT'
  'username'    : 'PLEX_USERNAME',
  'password'    : 'PLEX_PASSWORD',
  'token'       : 'PLEX_TOKEN',
  'machineId'   : 'PLEX_MACHINEID',
  'managedUser' : 'PLEX_MANAGED_USERNAME',
  'options'     : {
    'identifier': 'APP_IDENTIFIER',
    'product'   : 'APP_PRODUCT_NAME',
    'version'   : 'APP_VERSION_NUMBER',
    'deviceName': 'APP_DEVICE_NAME',
    'platform'  : 'Discord',
    'device'    : 'Discord'
  }
};

If you see any bugs or have any suggestions, use the issue tracker. Thanks!

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To Do:

• Make !nextpage count continue to increase rather than restarting each page
• move to next gen javascript w/babel
• use uri/headers for plex.query as shown at end
• albums queuing selection
• artist queuing
• read up on youtube api - Rhythm-Bot on github
• direct file playing - dispatcher = connection.playArbitraryInput(url).on('end', () => ...
• url command
• retype readme and add a license
• separate commands into js files - partially done
• make code look less shitty
• pulling of lyrics
• fix found = false in bot.js
• add timing to shutdown command and shutdown now to shutdown immediately, possibly -r to restart

Completed:

• handle case where user types !play when another song is playing
• fix !stop again
• make playlists
• albums queuing
• randomizing queue: !shuffle
• add default value to clear to prevent NaN error

return api.query({ uri: '/', extraHeaders: { 'X-TEST-HEADER': 'X-TEST-HEADER-VAL' } }).then(result => {
    expect(result).to.be.an('object');
    nockServer.done();
});