Pyrogram bot to automate streaming music in voice chats

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You can't run this on Android using Termux.
You can't run this on iOS using iSH.
You can't run this on Windows server (aka RDP).
You can't run this on Windows subsystem for Linux (aka WSL).
You can't run this on Shadow.
You can't run this on Heroku.
You can't run this on Google cloud shell.

Help

If you face an error, want to discuss this project or get support for it, join it's group on Telegram.

Requirements

A computer (Debian-based Linux VPS recommmended)
An alt Telegram account
Bot token from @BotFather
API ID & hash from my.telegram.org
Python3 & pip3
Mplayer
A software to forward audio to tdesktop (Linux: pulseaudio, Windows: voicemeeter)

Deploying

The code

Cloning

    git clone https://github.com/rojserbest/VoiceChatPyroBot.git vcbot && cd vcbot

Configuring

Copy config/sample_config.py to config/config.py and make it use your credentials (you can also give those as an arg when running bot.py):

API_ID int: your api id from my.telegram.org

API_HASH str: your api hash from my.telegram.org

TOKEN str: your bot token from @BotFather

SUDO_USERS list(int): a list of user ids which can pause, skip and change volume

MONGO_DB_URI str: your MongoDB URI (you can get one for free in their official website, sign up, create a cluster and a database named "vcpb")

GROUP int: the id of the group where your bot plays (not required if both USERS_MUST_JOIN and LOG are false)

USERS_MUST_JOIN bool: if true, only users which are in the group can use the bot

LOG bool: if true, now playing messages will be sent to the group

LANG str: your bot language, choose an available language code in strings/

DUR_LIMIT int: max video duration in minutes for downloads

PIP requirements

    pip(3) install -U -r requirements.txt

Running

⚠️ Warning for Linux users: don't run any command as root (except those which require it), else you'll face bulky problems. You can create a user with adduser music and add it to sudoers using sudo usermod -aG sudo music.

ℹ️ The volume command isn't working on Windows.

On Linux VPS

These are apt package manager instructions but you can install the required packages with other package managers too.

Update and upgrade apt:

    sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Install requirements:

    sudo apt install xrdp pulseaudio mplayer screen

Download tdesktop:

    cd ~ && wget https://telegram.org/dl/desktop/linux -O tdesktop.tar.xz && tar -xf tdesktop.tar.xz && rm tdesktop.tar.xz

Configure XRDP session to only start Telegram:

    echo "~/Telegram/Telegram" >~/.xsession

Enable pulseaudio service (you can skip this step if you don't have systemctl):

    systemctl --user enable pulseaudio

Restart the machine:

    sudo reboot

Start pulseaudio (you can skip this step if you did step 5):

    pulseaudio --start

Go back to directory of the clone and load a pulseaudio null sink, by running:

    bash pa.sh

Make a screen for the bot and attach to it:

    screen -S vcbot

Run the bot:

   python(3) bot.py

Detattach from the screen by pressing CTRL+A then CTRL+D.
Open a remote desktop client and login to your user.
You should see the Telegram GUI, just login, join a voice chat and set VoiceChatPyroBot as your microphone.
Done, you can now start sending commands to your bot and it'll stream in the voice chat.

On Linux desktop

These are apt package manager instructions but you can install the required packages with other package managers too.

Update and upgrade apt:

    sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Install requirements:

    sudo apt install pulseaudio mplayer pavucontrol screen

If you have Telegram skip this step, otherwise download it here.
Go to directory of the clone and load a pulseaudio null sink, by running:

    bash pa.sh

Make a screen for the bot and attach to it:

    screen -S vcbot

Run the bot:

   python(3) bot.py

Detattach from the screen by pressing CTRL+A then CTRL+D.
Open Telegram, join a voice chat and set VoiceChatPyroBot as your microphone.
Done, you can now start sending commands to your bot and it'll stream in the voice chat.

On Windows 10 PC

Download Voicemeeter here and install it.
Download virtual audio cable here and install it.
Reboot.
Right click the speaker account in your taskbar, then click playback.
Set Voicemeeter input and Voicemeeter output as default and click OK.
Download mplayer here, extract it and add it to path.
Start Voicemeeter engine.
Run the bot:

   python bot.py

Open Telegram, join a voice chat and set Voicemeeter input as your microphone.
Done, you can now start sending commands to your bot and it'll stream in the voice chat.

Usage

Streaming YouTube videos

Open YouTube in your browser, and search for a song.
Copy the complete video URL to clipboard and send it to your bot in private.

Method 2

Enable inline for you bot in @BotFather.
In your bot's private, type @usernameOfYourBot followed by your YouTube search query, and click a result.

Bot Commands

Inorder to command the bot send one of the mentioned commands below with a / prefix

start - start the bot
song - check the playing song
volume - check the current volume
queue - check songs in the queue
pause - pause the playing song (sudo users only)
resume - resume the paused song (sudo users only)
play - same as resume (sudo users only)
skip - skip the playing song (sudo users only)
stream - stream a radio (sudo users only)
cleardownloads - delete all downloads (sudo users only)
playlist - see the items in the playlist (sudo users only)
clear_playlist - clear the items in the playlist (sudo users only)
play_playlist - play the items in the playlist (sudo users only)

TODOS

Migrate to proper Database like SQLite for storing media queue and user requests.
Keep track of previous and completed media requests.
Add the features requested by users.

Authors & Acknowledgment

Inspiration

@AndrewLaneX (Telegram)

virendra123hy/vcpb