Connections can be made over two methods:

• HTTP
• WebSocket

Metadata

Andesite metadata is exposed by all default connection methods.

The current values are

name	type	description
version	string	version of the node
version-major	string	major version of the node
version-minor	string	minor version of the node
version-revision	string	revision version of the node
version-commit	string	commit hash of the node
version-build	integer	build number provided by the CI
node-region	string	region defined in the config
node-id	string	id defined in the config
enabled-sources	list of strings	list of sources enabled in the config
loaded-plugins	list of strings	list of plugins loaded

Connection methods may choose to format these in a more idiomatic format.

HTTP

All requests must have an Authorization header or password query param with the password* defined in the config. Furthermore, all routes related to players, including the WebSocket routes, must have an User-Id header or user-id query param with the bot's id. For both of them, the header takes priority.

If an error happens, an error object is returned. Since these objects can get quite big, it's possible to enable a shorter version, which does not send stack frames, by providing a header named Andesite-Short-Errors or a query param named shortErrors. Their values can be anything, as long as they are present shorter error messages are returned.

Node metadata is exposed in response headers as dash (-) separated Title Case identifiers, prepended with Andesite-, eg version-major becomes Andesite-Version-Major. Lists have their values joined by a string, eg [a, b] becomes a,b.

* If the password isn't defined or is null this header may be omitted.

Player routes

route	description	returns player
POST /player/voice-server-update	provides a voice server update event
GET /player/:guild_id	returns the state of the player for that guild	x
POST /player/:guild_id/play	plays a track on the guild. Body must be a valid play payload	x
POST /player/:guild_id/stop	stops playing audio on the guild.	x
PATCH /player/:guild_id/mixer	configures the mixer for the guild. Body must be a valid mixer update payload	x
PATCH /player/:guild_id/filters	configures the audio filters for the guild. Body must be a valid filter update payload	x
PATCH /player/:guild_id/pause	update pause state of the player. Body must be a valid pause payload	x
PATCH /player/:guild_id/seek	update the track position. Body must be a valid seek payload	x
PATCH /player/:guild_id/volume	update volume of the player. Body must be a valid volume payload	x
PATCH /player/:guild_id	update the player. Body must be a valid update payload	x
DELETE /player/:guild_id	destroys the player

Other routes

route	description
GET /stats	returns stats about the node
GET /stats/lavalink	returns lavalink compatible stats about the node
GET /loadtracks	loads tracks from the identifier query param. Returns a loaded tracks response
GET /decodetrack	returns metadata for a track in the track query param. Returns a track info object
POST /decodetrack	returns metadata for a track in the track body property. Returns a track info object
POST /decodetracks	returns metadata for the tracks in the request body. Returns an array of track info objects

WebSocket

• The regular websocket is available on the /websocket route.
• A (mostly*) lavalink compatible websocket is available by default on the / route.

Websocket authorization is the same as HTTP.

The metadata payload sent on connection start provides the metadata, instead of providing it through HTTP headers. The values are sent with lowerCamelCase keys and the appropriate json types. Lists are converted into arrays, other values are sent as-is.

All payloads must be valid json objects. If parsing fails, the socket is closed with code 4001. Both text and binary frames are accepted, as long as the data is valid UTF 8.

All payloads must have an op key, which must be a string. This restriction does not apply to custom handling of payloads done by plugins.

Responses from the server will always contain an op

Payloads can override the User-Id header by providing an userId field. This override is valid only for that payload. All responses will have an userId field containing either the id provided in the override or the id provided in the headers during the websocket handshake.

Valid ops are:

op	description
voice-server-update	provides a voice server update. Payload must also be a valid voice server update object
play	plays a track on the guild. Payload must also be a valid play object
mixer	configures the mixer for the guild. Payload must also be a valid mixer update object
stop	stops playing on the guild
pause	updates the pause state on the guild. Payload must also be a valid pause object
seek	updates the track position. Payload must also be a valid seek object
volume	updates the volume on the guild. Payload must also be a valid volume object
filters	updates the player audio filters. Payload must also be a valid filter update object
update	updates the player. Payload must also be a valid update object
destroy	destroys the player. Resulting player update event will have a destroyed key with value of true
get-player	returns the player state
get-stats	returns node stats
ping	used to calculate the ping and/or get the user id used in the handshake header. sends the received payload back

Additionally, WebSockets offer a replay system, so events fired after a connection was closed can be replayed. During websocket connection, the server will send a header Andesite-Connection-Id. After the websocket connection is established, clients can send an event-buffer payload to enable buffering. When a connection is closed, events will be buffered for up to the timeout specified in the event-buffer payload. After that, all buffered events are discarded and buffering will stop. To get the missed events, clients must reconnect with a Andesite-Resume-Id header containing the value returned by the Andesite-Connection-Id received earlier. All IDs are single use and reconnects must save the new ID returned. To disable buffering, simply send an event-buffer payload with timeout of 0.

All commands that directly interact with players (updating it, changing it's state, etc) send a player update as a response.

Events that may be sent by the websocket are:

• Connection ID (connection-id op, not sent on lavalink compat)

key	type	description
id	string	ID of the connection

• Metadata (metadata op, not sent on lavalink compat)

key	type	description
data	object	map of metadata key to value. Values may be integers, strings or arrays of strings

• Player Update (player-update op, playerUpdate on lavalink compat)

key	type	description
userId	string	ID of the user that owns the player
guildId	string	ID of the guild that owns the player
state	player	State of the player

• Event (event op)

key	type	description
type	string	One of TrackStartEvent, TrackEndEvent, TrackExceptionEvent, TrackStuckEvent, WebSocketClosedEvent
userId	string	ID of the user affected by this event
guildId	string	ID of the guild affected by this event

Additional event-specific data is also included:

• reason (string), code (integer), byRemote (boolean) for WebSocketClosedEvent

• track (string) for TrackStartEvent

• track (string), reason (string), mayStartNext (boolean) for TrackEndEvent

• track (string), error (string), exception(short error) for TrackExceptionEvent

• track (string), thresholdMs (integer) for TrackStuckEvent

• Pong (pong op)

key	type	description
userId	string	default user ID for this connection, provided on the ws handshake

• Stats (stats op)

key	type	description
userId	string	default user ID for this connection, provided on the ws handshake
stats	object	map containing the node stats

* Lavalink resumes are not supported.

Browser

The WebSocket endpoints can be accessed from a browser with a few small changes to how the connection is established.

The password must be provided as a websocket extension or query param.

The user id must be provided as a query param.

var ws = new WebSocket("ws://my.node/websocket?user-id=1234&password=youshallnotpass")

or

var ws = new WebSocket("ws://my.node/websocket?user-id=1234", "andesite-password:youshallnotpass")

After the connection is established, the API is identical to regular websockets.

Entities

Loaded Track(s)

key	type	description
loadType	string	type* of the response
tracks	track info[]/null	loaded tracks
playlistInfo	playlist info/null	metadata of the loaded playlist
cause	error/null	error that happened while loading tracks
severity	string/null	severity of the error

* Type may be one of

• TRACK_LOADED - tracks will only have one track, playlistInfo, cause and severity will be null.
• SEARCH_RESULT - cause and severity will be null.
• PLAYLIST_LOADED - cause and severity will be null.
• NO_MATCHES - all other fields will be null.
• LOAD_FAILED - tracks and playlistInfo will be null.

Playlist Info

key	type	description
name	string	name of the playlist
selectedTrack	integer/null	index of the selected track in the tracks array, or null if no track is selected

Track Info

key	type	description
track	string	base64 encoded track
info	track metadata	metadata of the track

Track Metadata

key	type	description
class	string	class name of the lavaplayer track
title	string	title of the track
author	string	author of the track
length	integer	duration of the track, in milliseconds
identifier	string	identifier of the track
uri	string	uri of the track
isStream	boolean	whether or not the track is a livestream
isSeekable	boolean	whether or not the track supports seeking
position	integer	current position of the track

Player

key	type	description
time	string	current unix timestamp on the node
position	integer/null	position of the current playing track, or null if nothing is playing
paused	boolean	whether or not the player is paused
volume	integer	the volume of the player
filters	object	map of filter name -> filter settings for each filter present
mixer	object	map of mixer player id -> mixer player
mixerEnabled	boolean	whether or not the mixer is the current source of audio

Mixer Player

key	type	description
time	string	current unix timestamp on the node
position	integer/null	position of the current playing track, or null if nothing is playing
paused	boolean	whether or not the player is paused
volume	integer	the volume of the player
filters	object	map of filter name -> filter settings for each filter present

Voice Server Update

key	type	description
sessionId	string	session ID for the current user in the event's guild
guildId	string	ID of the guild
event	voice-server-update	voice server update event sent by discord

Play

key	type	description
track	string	base64 encoded lavaplayer track. If null, the player is stopped. Only use null for mixer players, for regular players use stop instead.
start	integer/null	timestamp, in milliseconds, to start the track
end	integer/null	timestamp, in milliseconds, to end the track
pause	boolean/null	whether or not to pause the player
volume	integer/null	volume to set on the player
noReplace	boolean	if true and a track is already playing/paused, this command is ignored

Pause

key	type	description
pause	boolean	whether or not to pause the player

Seek

key	type	description
position	integer	timestamp to set the current track to, in milliseconds

Volume

key	type	description
volume	integer	volume to set on the player

Filter update

key	type	description
equalizer	equalizer/null	configures the equalizer
karaoke	karaoke/null	configures the karaoke filter
timescale	timescale/null	configures the timescale filter
tremolo	tremolo/null	configures the tremolo filter
vibrato	vibrato/null	configures the vibrato filter
volume	volume/null	configures the volume filter

Update

key	type	description
pause	boolean/null	whether or not to pause the player
position	integer/null	timestamp to set the current track to, in milliseconds
volume	integer/null	volume to set on the player
filters	filter update/null	configuration for the filters

Mixer Update

key	type	description
enable	boolean/null	if present, controls whether or not the mixer should be used
players	object	map of player id to play/update payloads for each mixer source

Event Buffer

key	type	description
timeout	integer	timeout for event buffering, in milliseconds

Error

key	type	description
class	string	class of the error
message	string/null	message of the error
stack	stack frame[]	stacktrace of the error
cause	error/null	cause of the error
suppressed	error[]	suppressed errors

Stack Frame

key	type	description
classLoader	string/null	name of the classloader
moduleName	string/null	name of the module
moduleVersion	string/null	version of the module
className	string	name of the class
methodName	string	name of the method
fileName	string/null	name of the source file
lineNumber	integer/null	line in the source file
pretty	string	pretty printed version of this frame, as it would appear on Throwable#printStackTrace

Filters

Equalizer

key	type	description
bands	band[]	array of bands to configure

Band

key	type	description	default
band	integer (0-14)	band number to configure	-
gain	float ([-0.25, 1.0])	value to set for the band	0

Karaoke

key	type	default
level	float	1
monoLevel	float	1
filterBand	float	220
filterWidth	float	100

Timescale

key	type	description	default
speed	float (> 0)	speed to play music at	1
pitch	float (> 0)	pitch to set	1
rate	float (> 0)	rate to set	1

Tremolo

key	type	default
frequency (> 0)	float	2
depth (0 < x <= 1)	float	0.5

Vibrato

key	type	default
frequency (0 < x <= 14)	float	2
depth (0 < x <= 1)	float	0.5

Volume {#update}

key	type	default
volume	float	1