discord-voice-recorder/README.md

Discord Voice Recorder

A Discord.js script which can record voice calls. Summon the bot to a voice channel, and voilà! the audio is piped right into your local machine.

Jump to Installation & Usage to get started.

Recording voice calls without prior consent violates privacy. Do not use this bot without approval. I'm not responsible for your insanity.

• Installation and Usage
  • Run Locally

  • [Run as Docker Container](#run-as-docker-container)
    

  • [Bot Commands](#bot-commands)
    

• Managing the Output
  • Merge Recording
  • Convert the Merged File to MP3
• Thanks

Installation and Usage

Clone the repository :

git clone https://github.com/chebro/discord-voice-recorder/

Create a discord bot. Invite the bot to your server, then:

1. Create a config.json file and a recordings folder at the root folder.
2. Paste the bot token (from developer window) and any bot prefix into config.json, like so:

{
    "BOT_TOKEN": "<YOUR_BOT_TOKEN>",
    "PREFIX": "<BOT_PREFIX>"
}

You can run the bot in any one of the following two ways.

Running the Script Locally

Run npm i to download necessary node_modules, then run npm start, the bot should be online.

Run as a Docker Container

1. Build the docker image

docker build -t dvr .

2. Bind /recordings directory on host to container and start the container with a custom name.

docker run \          
  --name <CONTAINER_NAME> \     
  --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)"/recordings,target=/usr/src/bot/recordings \
  dvr

The bot should be online.

3. To stop the container, run docker stop <CONTAINER_NAME>, you can restart it using docker start <CONTINAER_NAME>.

Bot Commands

1. Start Recording : <PREFIX>enter <VOICE_CHANNEL_NAME>

2. Stop Recording : <PREFIX>exit

Managing the Output

The output for each piece of audio stream is written to a unique file in PCM format (48000 Hz, signed 16-bit little-endian, 2 channel [stereo]) and saved to the /recordings directory.

Merge Recording

To merge all output files to /recordings/merge.pcm, run:

node /bin/merge.js

Note: Empty your recordings folder (and remove merge.pcm) after each session. Running ./bin/merge.js otherwise, will dump large merge files.

Convert the Merged File to MP3

Head over to FFmpeg.org, and download executables for your OS; If you're on Windows, double-check if the FFmpeg bin is on your path. As discussed in issue #3, to convert pcm to mp3, run:

ffmpeg -f s16le -ar 48000 -ac 2 -i merge.pcm output.mp3

Thanks

Special thanks to @eslachance for the gist. It is what inspired me to make this repo.