youtube-discord-bot

Bespoke Discord bot designed to poll a list of YouTube channels for new videos, then post them to a Discord channel.

Setup

1. Create a Discord Bot and invite it to your server

   Visit the Discord Developer Portal, create a new application, and add a bot. Take note of the application's client ID and the bot's API token.

   Discord bots join channels when guild admins click on invite links like these. Add your client ID to the below URL and navigate to it in a browser. The permission parameter specifies which accesses the bot will be granted (in this case, permission to send messages and embed links).

   https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=<clientId>&scope=bot&permissions=18432
   

2. Generate a YouTube API Key

   Follow YouTube's instructions here. Create new credentials and note the API token.

3. Test your credentials

   Create a local.env file with the following:

   export YT_API_KEY=<YouTube API Key>
   export YT_DELTA_MINUTES=<variable delta minutes to check, i.e. "30" for last 30 minutes>
   export YT_CHANNELS=<comma-delimited list of YouTube channel names>
   export DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN=<Discord bot API token
   export DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID=<Target Discord channel ID>

   Run source local.env && go run ./.... Videos posted by the listed YouTube channels in the last <delta> minutes should be posted to the target Discord channel.

4. Prepare your deploy environment

   TBD

5. Deploy the bot to AWS

   TBD

Credit

• Terraform configuration and Makefile inspired by snsinfu/terraform-lambda-example