VLC to Discord Notifier and Vote-to-Skip Bot

This script allows you to send notifications to a specific Discord channel when a new video starts playing in VLC Media Player. Additionally, it includes a vote-to-skip feature that lets users in a voice channel vote to skip the currently playing video.

Requirements

• Python 3.7 or higher
• VLC Media Player with the HTTP Interface enabled
• A Discord bot with the messages and message_content intents enabled

Dependencies

Install the required Python libraries using the following command:

pip install discord.py python-dotenv requests python-vlc

Setup

1. Enable the HTTP interface in VLC Media Player:

   • Go to Tools -> Preferences
   • Change "Show settings" to "All"
   • Navigate to Interface -> Main interfaces
   • Check the "Web" option
   • Navigate to Interface -> Main interfaces -> Lua
   • Set a password for the HTTP interface in the "Lua HTTP" section

2. Create a .env file in the same directory as the Python script with the following content:

DISCORD_TOKEN=your_discord_bot_token
DISCORD_CHANNEL_ID=your_discord_channel_id
VOICE_CHANNEL_ID=your_voice_channel_id
VLC_HTTP_PASSWORD=your_vlc_http_password
ALWAYS_SKIP_USERS=user_id1,user_id2

Replace the placeholders with your actual Discord bot token, channel ID, voice channel ID, VLC HTTP password, and the user IDs of users with the "always skip" privilege.

Running the script

Run the script using the following command:

python3 vlc_to_discord.py

Once the bot is running, it will send a message to the specified Discord channel whenever a new video starts playing in VLC Media Player. Users can vote to skip the video by typing !skip in the channel.

Vote-to-skip rules

To skip a video, more than 2/3rds of the users in the voice channel need to vote. Users with the "always skip" privilege can skip a video with just their vote.