PulseCord is a self-hostable Discord bot that streams YouTube audio into your voice channels. Post a link or run !play and it joins the call and starts playing. No invite link, no third-party host — you run it, you control it.
you — !play https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
PulseCord — 🎶 Joined General, now playing Rick Astley — Never Gonna Give You Up
PulseCord isn't a hosted service you invite to your server — it's a bot you deploy yourself and fully control.
Drop a YouTube URL in any text channel (or run !play <url>) and PulseCord joins your current voice channel and starts streaming instantly.
No third-party server, no data leaving your control. Host it on a Raspberry Pi, a spare box, or a VPS you already pay for.
!play, !skip, !queue, !pause, !stop — a lightweight command surface that does what a Discord music bot should and nothing more.
Read the code, fork it, change it. PulseCord is built to be understood and modified, not treated as a black box.
Full installation, configuration, and troubleshooting docs live in the repository — this is the short version.
Head to the Discord Developer Portal, create a bot user, and grab your bot token.
Grab the source from GitHub and install dependencies on the machine you plan to host from.
Drop your bot token into the config, invite the bot to your server, and start the process.
Join a voice channel and post a YouTube link, or use !play — PulseCord handles the rest.
No — there is no shared, publicly-invitable instance. PulseCord is source code you run yourself, on your own machine or server. This keeps hosting costs, uptime, and data entirely in your hands.
A machine that can stay online (a VPS, home server, or even a Raspberry Pi), a Discord bot token from the Developer Portal, and the dependencies listed in the repository's README.
Yes. PulseCord is open source — the only cost is whatever hardware or hosting you choose to run it on.