Sprint 3 Project
Introducing the Discord DJ! All of us love the functionality in Discord to play music in voice channels, but we felt that more could be done to enhance this feature. Through this project, we sought to creatively optimize the experience of playing music in Discord by creating a bot that adjusts songs within a queue based on popular demand!
To get started with the Discord DJ, you can select a genre of your choice to play a random song or add songs to queues based on genre or song title! We’ve enabled many features for the bot – it can pause, resume, clear queue, skip, and stop. It can also find the song that’s currently being played or a similar one and add either to the queue.
We primarily used the Discord + Spotify APIs as the basic framework for our project. In order to ensure that the bot would output the YouTube links to the chosen songs, we utilized the ytdl-core module. All of our code was written in Javascript.
Foremost, we had never worked with the Discord or Spotify APIs before! Overall, we’d say the biggest challenge we came across was figuring out how to integrate the two together. Some of the other obstacles we faced were setting up bot commands, generating the YouTube links of each song, and understanding how to make the bot responsive to user input.
None of us have ever built a project like this before, so we worked together as a team and supported each other every day. We are so proud of what we were able to build over the past few weeks!
We learned our way around the Discord + Spotify APIs, and mainly how the two could be integrated together into a cohesive product. We also learned how to extend additional functionalities to a Discord bot. We’re incredibly happy with the final result. :)