Tutorial/demo content for Discord Bot project
- Python 3.8 or higher
- Discord.py
- Discord authentication setup
You can get the library directly from PyPI:
python3 -m pip install -U discord.py
If you are using Windows, then the following should be used instead:
py -3 -m pip install -U discord.py
A full basic setup guide can be found here.
Please head to your Discord developer portal here. Simply choose "New Application", head to "Bot" tab (inside the app settings which you should be redirected to by default) and press "add bot". You can now see a bot application and a button to copy your unique token. This token is the way to access your bot at runtime, and should only be shared with trusted sources. Do not push any code that has your bots unique token to any repository.
To invite your bot to your server, head to the "OAuth2" tab, and in the "scopes" section under "OAuth2 URL Generator", select "bot". Give the bot the permissions you like, or possibly admnistrator. (Take care with this, if a person has access to your token they will also have access to admin privelleges) and copy the URL. Visit the URL and you should be prompted to invite the bot.
Assuming you have valid code for your bot in a .py file, add client.run('BOTTOKENHERE') to the your file. In the terminal, simply using python3 filename.py should suffice, and you should see your bot come online in your server. Alternatively, an enviroment variable may also be used for the bot token (and will be our preferred way later on).