XDwightsBeetsX / ARCHIVE-discord_bots

Discord bots

discord-bots

Discord Bots!

Bots can and should:

• Interact on the server
• Track member stats
• Do cool things
  • Music
  • Pictures

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Table of Contents

• discord-bots
  • Usage
    • Add the Bot to Your Server
    • Download the repo
    • Check the requirements.txt
    • Add Your Discord Secrets
    • Run the Bot(s)
  • The Bots
    • Dwight
    • Example Bot
  • Docs

Usage

Add the Bot to Your Server

Follow the guide here

• Starting a server
• Creating a bot on the Discord Dev Portal
• Adding the bot to your server
  • Permissions
• Getting started with Discord Bots in python

Download the repo

Use one of the following or just download the .zip here.

> gh repo clone XDwightsBeetsX/discord-bots

> git clone https://github.com/XDwightsBeetsX/discord-bots.git

Check the requirements.txt

• Most will need to simply install the discord python API:

  > pip install discord

• You can also make sure you got it all (it's not much):

  > pip install requirements.txt

Add Your Discord Secrets

• Store tokens/keys in a folder like keys
  • Add your folder to the .gitignore to keep your key(s) safe
  • Add files like keys/dwight.txt
  • Parse these in with the bot using utils/Parsing

Run the Bot(s)

Easily run bots like any other python script!

> python <bot-name>.py

The Bots

Dwight

The first bot!

Discord Command	Info
!help	Prints off a list of available commands.
!dwight	Messages: "Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica"
!message_count	Dwights lets you know how many messages have been sent.
!member_count	Dwight tells you how popular your server is

Example Bot

A template for making new bots.

Offers some skeleton methods:

• __main__
• run()
• sendMessage(message)
• writeStatsToFile()
• logLine(line)

Docs

• General
  • bot suggestions
  • creating a discord app
  • generating bot tokens
• Bots
  • dwight

with reference to: realpython's tutorial

links: Discord Developer Portal