I'm having an issue with my discord bot playing audio from a youtube url

Question

sync def hog():
channel = bot.get_channel(964971002289356893)
url = 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyRmkAfpCOM'
await asyncio.sleep(1)
voice_channel = bot.get_channel(int(964971002289356893))
vc = await voice_channel.connect()
#vc.play(discord.FFmpegPCMAudio('C:/Users/alexa/Downloads/hogrider.mp3'))
vc.play(discord.FFmpegPCMAudio(source='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyRmkAfpCOM', executable='ffmpeg.exe'))
while vc.is_playing():
    await asyncio.sleep(5)
await vc.disconnect()

It works fine with the audio file from my laptop, but I want to play it from a youtube link. It gives me an error: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyRmkAfpCOM: Invalid data found when processing input

Thank you in advance

Answer 1

Maybe you should change your code to this, but make sure you need to install ffmpeg. I'm using this code for my music player (on my discord bot)

async def hog(ctx, url:str):
   channel = bot.get_channel(put your channel here)
   vc = ctx,.voice_client
   await asyncio.sleep(1)
   video = search(query=title)
   source = video['formats'][0]['url']
   vc.play(FFmpegPCMAudio(source, **FFMPEG_OPTIONS))

as you can see there is search function being called.

def search(query):
YDL_OPTION = {
    'format': 'bestaudio/best',
    'noplaylist': True,
    'nocheckcertificate': True,
    'default_search': 'auto',
    'geo_bypass': True,
}

with YoutubeDL(YDL_OPTION) as ydl:
    try:
        requests.get(query)
    except:
        info = ydl.extract_info(f"ytsearch:{query}", download=False)['entries'][0]
    else:
        info = ydl.extract_info(query, download=False)
return info