Supported sources

By default, discord-player does not support anything (including search operation and streaming). Luckily, discord-player supports the following sources with the help of @discord-player/extractor (opens in a new tab) which comes pre-installed with discord-player:

• Local file (You must set the search engine to QueryType.FILE in order to play local files, backed by attachment extractor)
• Raw attachments (backed by attachment extractor)
• Spotify (backed by spotify extractor)
• Apple Music (backed by appleMusic extractor)
• YouTube (backed by youtube extractor)
• Vimeo (backed by vimeo extractor)
• Reverbnation (backed by reverbnation extractor)
• SoundCloud (backed by soundcloud extractor)

If you dont want to stream from certain extractors, you can block them by passing blockStreamFrom: [id, id, ...] to player instantiation options. Disabling youtube streaming completely would be as easy as:

import { Player } from 'discord-player';
import { YouTubeExtractor } from '@discord-player/extractor';
 
const player = new Player(client, {
    blockStreamFrom: [
        // now your bot will no longer be able to use
        // youtube extractor to play audio even if the track was
        // extracted from youtube
        YouTubeExtractor.identifier
    ],
    blockExtractors: [
        // this will block the listed extractors from being
        // able to query metadata (aka search results parsing)
        // This example disables youtube search, spotify bridge
        // and apple music bridge
        YouTubeExtractor.identifier
    ]
});

Likewise, You can also force a specific extractor to resolve your search query. This is useful in some cases where you don't want to use other sources.

You can do so by using ext:<EXTRACTOR_IDENTIFIER> in searchEngine value. Example:

import { SoundCloudExtractor } from '@discord-player/extractor';
 
const result = await player.search(query, {
    // always use soundcloud extractor
    searchEngine: SoundCloudExtractor.identifier
});

Adding more sources

Discord Player provides an Extractor API that enables you to use your custom stream extractor with it. Some packages have been made by the community to add new features using this API.