Pomice

Pomice is a fully asynchronous Python library designed for communicating with Lavalink seamlessly within the discord.py library. It features 100% coverage of the Lavalink spec that can be accessed with easy-to-understand functions along with Spotify and Apple Music querying capabilities using built-in custom clients, making it easier to develop your next big music bot.

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Install

To install the library, you need the lastest version of pip and minimum Python 3.8

Stable version

pip install pomice

Unstable version (this one gets more frequent changes)

pip install git+https://github.com/cloudwithax/pomice

Support And Documentation

The official documentation is here

You can join our support server here

Examples

In-depth examples are located in the examples folder

Here's a quick example:

import pomice
import discord
import re

from discord.ext import commands

URL_REG = re.compile(r'https?://(?:www\.)?.+')

class MyBot(commands.Bot):

    def __init__(self) -> None:
        super().__init__(command_prefix='!', activity=discord.Activity(type=discord.ActivityType.listening, name='to music!'))

        self.add_cog(Music(self))

    async def on_ready(self) -> None:
        print("I'm online!")
        await self.cogs["Music"].start_nodes()


class Music(commands.Cog):

    def __init__(self, bot) -> None:
        self.bot = bot

        self.pomice = pomice.NodePool()

    async def start_nodes(self):
        await self.pomice.create_node(bot=self.bot, host='127.0.0.1', port='3030',
                                     password='youshallnotpass', identifier='MAIN')
        print(f"Node is ready!")



    @commands.command(name='join', aliases=['connect'])
    async def join(self, ctx: commands.Context, *, channel: discord.TextChannel = None) -> None:

        if not channel:
            channel = getattr(ctx.author.voice, 'channel', None)
            if not channel:
                raise commands.CheckFailure('You must be in a voice channel to use this command'
                                            'without specifying the channel argument.')


        await ctx.author.voice.channel.connect(cls=pomice.Player)
        await ctx.send(f'Joined the voice channel `{channel}`')

    @commands.command(name='play')
    async def play(self, ctx, *, search: str) -> None:

        if not ctx.voice_client:
            await ctx.invoke(self.join)

        player = ctx.voice_client

        results = await player.get_tracks(query=f'{search}')

        if not results:
            raise commands.CommandError('No results were found for that search term.')

        if isinstance(results, pomice.Playlist):
            await player.play(track=results.tracks[0])
        else:
            await player.play(track=results[0])


bot = MyBot()
bot.run("token here")

FAQ

Why is it saying "Cannot connect to host"?

You need to have a Lavalink node setup before you can use this library. Download it here

What experience do I need?

This library requires that you have some experience with Python, asynchronous programming and the discord.py library.

Why is it saying "No module named pomice found"?

You need to install the package before you can use it

Contributors

Thanks to vveeps for implementing some features I wasn't able to do myself

Metadata

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