TuffyHacks-DiscordBotDemo By Jose Sanrindo

Brief Description

• This is a simple discord bot demo, using python, for people to check out and get a gist of how one could normally be set up.

Installation

• Too create your own discord bot you will need to install two things:
• Python Compiler(this will vary between Operating Systems)

https://www.python.org/downloads/

• Discord.py library

python3 -m pip install -U discord.py

Set Up

• To make your own discord bot, you will need to create a application

• Log in to your discord at https://discord.com/developers/applications
• Click on the “New Application” button.
• Give the application a name and click “Create”.
• Create a Bot User by navigating to the “Bot” tab and clicking “Add Bot”.

• These instructions were pulled from https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/rewrite/discord.html

Bot Invitation

• To invite your discord bot, you will need to find the bot's invite url

• Log back in to your discord at https://discord.com/developers/applications
• Enter the application you plan to invite
• Go to the OAuth2, and mark the "bot" in the scopes list
• Once that is done, the invite url is made below it
• Enter the link into your browser, then specify which server you would like to add it to

Events

• Events are triggers when a certain activity is detected by the bot.
• In the demo we use these event references:

• on_ready(): when the client is done preparing data received from Discord
• on_message(): when the client detects a message sent on a text channel

• More event references can be found on https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/rewrite/api.html#event-reference

Commands Framework

• Commands: are triggers when users specify a requested action to the bot.
• Cogs: are a collection of commands, that is made in order to organize the commands once the bot's development increases.
• Extension: are able to allow bot functionality changes during run-time of the bot.

Uses in Demo

• "on_message": the bot will check messages sent, if a key word is user, the bot will send the message "nice"
• ".hello": the bot command will respond with "world"
• ".happy": the bot command will respond with the smiling emoji
• ".dice": the bot command will generate a random integer determined by what kind of dice you wish to roll
• ".reload": the bot command will update the use of the file world.py cog extension
• ".world": the bot command is from the cog extension and will do whichever task it is changed to.

Now Lets Look at The Demo

• https://github.com/TakashiJose/TuffyHacks-DiscordBotDemoPublic

Resources/Links

• Discord.py documentation

https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/rewrite/index.html#

• "Python Create Discord Bot on Raspbery Pi" By Ginja

https://www.gngrninja.com/code/2017/3/24/python-create-discord-bot-on-raspberry-pi

• "Python: Making a Discord Bot (Rewrite / v1.x)" By Lucas, also has a "Learn Python" playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW3GfRiBCHOhfVoiDZpSz8SM_HybXRPzZ