MeeTube: Music Bot, look at me!

MeeTube is an open-source telegram bot that gets songs from YouTube for you.

You can speak with him here!

People reported that it doesn't work on iOS. Update coming to fix that.

Dependencies

To run the bot, you'll need python 3 installed with a few modules:

python-telegram-bot
requests
bs4
lxml
youtube_dl

ffprobe

We'll also need ffprobe, dependency of youtube_dl, and part of the ffmpeg package:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg

Running and deploying

To run the bot, simply run:

python3 bot.py

And to keep it always running on your machine, you should run using screen:

Create a screen:

screen -S nameofscreen

Start the bot:

python3 bot.py

Detach from screen (or simply close the terminal window)

'CTRL + A' + 'D'