ts3musicbot

A musicbot for Teamspeak which uses VLC to directly stream audio from YouTube.

Table of Content

• Command Line Interface
  • Usage
  • Syntax
  • Prefixes
  • Commands
  • Short Forms
  • Examples
    • Teamspeak
    • Terminal
• Startup Parameters
• Dependencies
• Setup

Command Line Interface

Usage

To control the bot on teamspeak send a command to the the bot or a channel it is currently inside.

Syntax

Commands are built upon a structure. A command starts with a keyword and can be followed up by certain arguments seperated with spaces which further specify the behavior of the command.
Arguments on their own can require values, if so they will end with a colon and the values will need to be specified behind them, seperated by spaces aswell.
Depending on the platform commands can have prefixes to which the command keywords are simply appended.

An example command for teamspeak could look like this:
!command arg1: value1 arg2 arg3: value3

Prefixes

Plattform	Prefix
Teamspeak	! or :
Terminal	None

Commands

Function	Command
adding a song to the queue	prefixplay song*
playing a song right after the current song	prefixplaynext song*
playing a song right now	prefixplaynow song*
playing a song at a certain index in the queue	prefixplayqueue index
resuming the song	prefixplay
removing the song at a certain index	prefixremove index
removing the next song	prefixremovenext
removing the current song	prefixremovecurrent
pausing the song	prefixpause
toggling the playback state	prefixtoggle
playing the next song	prefixnext
playing the previous song	prefixprev
stopping the song	prefixstop
clearing the queue	prefixclear
repeating one song	prefixrepeat
repeating all songs	prefixrepeat all
stop repeating	prefixrepeat stop
shuffling the queue	prefixshuffle
listing the queue	prefixlist
setting the playback position in percent	prefixposition value
adding a value to the position	prefixposition +value
subtracting a value from the position	prefixposition -value
setting the playback speed in percent	prefixspeed value
adding a value to the speed	prefixspeed +value
subtracting a value from the speed	prefixspeed -value
setting the volume to a value between 0 to 120	prefixvolume value
adding a value to the volume	prefixvolume +value
subtracting a value from the volume	prefixvolume -value
creating a playlist	prefixplaylist create: name
creating a playlist from the queue	prefixplaylist create: name from: queue
creating a playlist from another playlist	prefixplaylist create: name from: playlist
deleteting a playlist	prefixplaylist delete: name
adding a song to a playlist	prefixplaylist add: song* to: name
adding a song at a certain index of the queue to a playlist	prefixplaylist add: index to: name
adding the current song to a playlist	prefixplaylist add: currentsong to: name
adding the queue to a playlist	prefixplaylist add: queue to: name
adding a playlist to another playlist	prefixplaylist add: playlist to: name
removing a song at a certain index from a playlist	prefixplaylist remove: index from: name
adding the playlist to the queue	prefixplaylist queue: name
replacing the queue with a playlist	prefixplaylist play: name
shuffling a playlist	prefixplaylist shuffle: name
clearing a playlist	prefixplaylist clear: name
listing all playlists	prefixplaylist list: all
listing a playlist	prefixplaylist list: name
make the bot join your channel	prefixcomeover

* songs can be youtube urls or just text which will be used to search a song on youtube

Short Forms

Command	Short Form
play	pl
playnext	pnx
playnow	pnw
playqueue	pq
remove	rm
removenext	rn
removecurrent	rc
pause	pa
toggle	tg
next	nx
prev	pr
stop	st
clear	cl
shuffle	sh
repeat	rp
list	ls
position	ps
speed	sp
volume	vl
playlist	pll
comeover	co

Argument	Short Form
create:	cr:
delete:	dl:
add:	ad:
remove:	rm:
play:	pl:
queue:	qu:
shuffle:	sh:
clear:	cl:
list:	ls:
from:	fr:

Argument Values	Short Form
all	a
stop	s
queue	q
currentsong	cs

Examples

Teamspeak

• Play Owl City - Fireflies from YouTube:

  by the automatic search function
  !play owl city fireflies

  by directly providing a YouTube URL
  !play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psuRGfAaju4

• Create a playlist named myplaylist:

  !playlist create: myplaylist

• Add a song to the playlist myplaylist:

  !playlist add: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psuRGfAaju4 to: myplaylist

• Queue the playlist myplaylist:

  !playlist queue: myplaylist

Terminal

• Play Owl City - Fireflies from YouTube:

  by the automatic search function
  play owl city fireflies

  by directly providing a YouTube URL
  play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psuRGfAaju4

• Create a playlist named myplaylist:

  playlist create: myplaylist

• Add a song to the playlist myplaylist:

  playlist add: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psuRGfAaju4 to: myplaylist

• Queue the playlist myplaylist:

  playlist queue: myplaylist

Startup Parameters

The bots functionality is provided by modules which can be enabled through startup parameters.
These parameters have to be specified after the main.py file when executing.
An example could look like this:
python3 main.py ctz

Module	Parameter	Function
CLI	c	provides a direct command line interface in the terminal
Teamspeak	t	provides a command line interface through teamspeak chat messages
ZMQ	z	provides a command line interface through a zmq server which can be locally accessed through the zmqinterface.py script in the tools dir
Debug	d	provides debug functionality and logs
Silent	s	writes all text output to a log file

Dependencies

• Python 3.7
  • requirements.txt
• TeamSpeak 3 client
  • ClientQuery plugin
• VLC media player 3.0
• VB-CABLE (or another app for routing audio as an input to teamspeak)

Setup

• Clone or download ts3musicbot-git
• Download and install Python, TeamSpeak, VLC media player and VB-CABLE
• Navigate into the ts3musicbot-git/ts3musicbot directory that you've downloaded and install all python dependencies by executing the command: pip3 install -r requirements.txt.
• Install the ClientQuery plugin in TeamSpeak directly by going to: Tools - Options - Addons - Browse online and then searching ClientQuery and installing it
• Start the bot once by executing the main.py file in the ts3musicbot dir which will create the data folder inside it with a config file and then close it.
• Open the config.json file and fill in the apikey which can be found in your teamspeak client at: tools - options - addons - clientquery - settings.
• Optionally change the nickname of the bot and add a default server address aswell as a teamspeak path to automatically start teamspeak.