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I am trying to build a Discord Music Bot and I need to search the YouTube using keywords given by the user. Currently I know how to play from a url.

       loop = loop or asyncio.get_event_loop()
       data = await loop.run_in_executor( None, lambda: ytdl.extract_info(url, download=not stream))
       if "entries" in data:
            data = data["entries"][0]

        filename = data["url"] if stream else ytdl.prepare_filename(data)
        return cls(discord.FFmpegPCMAudio(filename, **ffmpeg_options), data=data)
ashwin vinod
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Youtube_DL has a extract_info method that you can use. Instead of giving it a link, you just have to pass ytsearch:args like so:

from requests import get
from youtube_dl import YoutubeDL

YDL_OPTIONS = {'format': 'bestaudio', 'noplaylist':'True'}

def search(arg):
    with YoutubeDL(YDL_OPTIONS) as ydl:
        try:
            get(arg) 
        except:
            video = ydl.extract_info(f"ytsearch:{arg}", download=False)['entries'][0]
        else:
            video = ydl.extract_info(arg, download=False)

    return video

A few important things with this function:

  • It works with both words and urls
  • If you make a youtube search, the output will be a list a dictionnaries. In this case, it will return the first result
  • It will return a dictionnary containing the following informations: 
    video_infos = search("30 sec video")

#Doesn't contain all the data, some keys are not very important
cleared_data = {
    'channel': video['uploader'],
    'channel_url': video['uploader_url'],
    'title': video['title'],
    'description': video['description'],
    'video_url': video['webpage_url'],
    'duration': video['duration'], #in seconds
    'upload_date': video['upload_data'], #YYYYDDMM
    'thumbnail': video['thumbnail'],
    'audio_source': video['formats'][0]['url'],
    'view_count': video['view_count'],
    'like_count': video['like_count'],
    'dislike_count': video['dislike_count'],
}
MrSpaar
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I'm not sure youtube-dl is good to search for youtube urls using keywords. You should probably take a look at youtube-search for this.

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