Discord Player Extractor API

The Extractor API allows you to build your own stream extractor for Discord Player.

Example Extractor

Your extractor should have 2 methods (required):

validate(query): boolean

This method is called by Discord Player while validating the query provided via Player.play(). (Note that only string queries are passed to your extractor)

getInfo(query): object

This method is used by Discord Player to create Track object. You can return your data here that gets passed to Track. Your info must be similar to this:

{
    // the title
    title: "Extracted by custom extractor",
    // the duration in ms
    duration: 20000,
    // the thumbnail
    thumbnail: "some thumbnail link",
    // engine, can be Readable streams or link to raw stream that gets played
    engine: "someStreamLink",
    // number of views
    views: 0,
    // author of this stream
    author: "Some Artist",
    // description
    description: "",
    // link of this stream
    url: "Some Link"
}

version: string

This should be the version of your extractor. It is not really important and is set to 0.0.0 by default.

Loading Extractors

Discord Player Extractors can be loaded using Player.use(ExtractorName, Extractor) method.

Register Extractor

const myExtractor = {
  version: "1.0.0",
  important: false,
  validate: (query) => true,
  getInfo: async (query) => {
    return {
        title: "Extracted by custom extractor",
        duration: 20000,
        thumbnail: "some thumbnail link",
        engine: "someStreamLink",
        views: 0,
        author: "Some Artist",
        description: "",
        url: "Some Link"
    };
  }
};

player.use("GiveItSomeName", myExtractor);

Remove Extractor

player.unuse("GiveItSomeName");

Readymade Extractors

@discord-player/extractor

This extractor enables optional sources such as Discord Attachments, Vimeo, Facebook and Reverbnation. It also enables the Lyrics feature!

This extractor is based on YouTube DL. This extractor enables 700+ websites support. However, this extractor can get buggy and is not updated frequently. So, it is suggested to make your own extractor if you want to use it!

const downloader = require("@discord-player/downloader").Downloader;

player.use("YOUTUBE_DL", downloader);

Discord Player auto-detects and uses @discord-player/extractor if it is installed!

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