youtubeToDiscord

Script that will get the latest youtube video from a spesific channel and post it to Discord via their Webhook

I have tested this on Windows 10 and Raspberry Pi OS

Setup / Running

Installation guide

• you must have node installed to run this program locally.
• You will also need other packages. To install these, run this command:

npm install

env

You will need a .env file to run this locally. It requires 1 value for the basic use, but for debugging it needs 2 values containing discord webhook URL: How to generate a discord webhook url

ENV variables needed

Name	Data needed
WEBHOOK	Discord webhook url
WEBHOOKDEBUG	Discord webhook url

Compile

• To run this scrip you need to compile the the typescript files into usable javascript files

tsc

• a new folder named dist will appear with the javascript-files that you need

Setup

• I have set it up so that you only need to feed it arguments
• First we need some folders, and a data file for storing information
• arguments accepted: url (required) (NB: It is important that )

node .\dist\init.js channal/user URL

Example:

node .\dist\init.js https://www.youtube.com/c/LinusTechTips

This will create a folder in the root of the working directory *./debugScreenshots <-- will be removed sometime in the future *./log *./log/channalname-data.json

Running

• I have set it up so that you only need to feed it arguments
• arguments accepted: channalname (required) debug (optional)

node .\dist\app.js channalname 

Example:

node .\dist\app.js linustechtips

debug Example:

node .\dist\app.js linustechtips debug

Making it work on a Raspberry Pi

• this script uses puppeteer that needs chromeium installed, but it needs to be installed manually on Raspberry Pi OS: Source: Puppeteer on Raspberry Pi OS NodeJS

sudo apt install chromium-browser chromium-codecs-ffmpeg

• Since I am a total n00b I do not use complete paths, so this will cause issues trying to run it on RPi, but using bash-files are the workaround for now

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/pi/projects/youtubeToDiscord/
node dist/app.js linustechtips debug

• here is an example of how I check mulitple channels:

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/pi/projects/youtubeToDiscord/
node dist/app.js linustechtips debug
cd /home/pi/projects/youtubeToDiscord/
node dist/app.js videogamedunkey debug