Play songs from youtube

[davidcollini]

Nuclear scrapes data from many sources, but plays it through youtube, is there any way to implement this in Soju, or would that not be possible, or against Spotify's DRM, I hope this feature can be implemented :)

[coffeebank]

Thanks for dropping by :) It is a good idea; some brief comments about this:

• The Spotify API might not let me use the data to search and return Youtube links (I'm not a lawyer)
• The Youtube API ratelimit on the free plan is insultingly low, only 99 searches/day (one Spotify playlist can blow through this)
• Scraping the Youtube frontend is possible but may not be a good long-term solution and needs upkeep

One idea I have is to return a link that goes to a Youtube search with the song title and artist prefilled in the search.... That should be safe, but may also not be a great experience.... Thoughts?

[davidcollini]

Idk what's the best solution for this, but here's another project that scrapes data from YouTube music, maybe it can help you https://github.com/snuffyDev/Beatbump

[davidcollini]

Maybe if you can't find out how to do this, the best thing to do would be the last option, but I feel like there has to be a better way