alexwinder/discord-bot

Discord bot.

Discord Bot

Usage

To be able to use this bot you need to do the following:

1. Create a new application in the Discord Developer Portal.

2. Create a bot for the application created previously. When doing so you need to make a note of the Token as this will be needed later.

3. Use OAuth2 in the application with the bot scope. Copy the URL and paste it into your web browser. This will ask you to log the bot into a specific server. If the server isn't in the list then you will need to be granted permissions.

4. Create a .env file based on .env.example.

   cp .env.example .env

5. In the .env file you should set a value of BOT_TOKEN to the Token which you received when you created the bot in the Discord Developer Portal.

6. Run the bot, this can be done in one of 2 ways:

Run With Docker (Recommended)

This assumes that you have Docker already installed on your machine.

Build and run the Docker container in detached mode.

docker build -t discord-bot .
docker run -it --rm -d --name discord-bot discord-bot

If you want to stop the Docker container.

docker stop discord-bot

Run Natively

You can run the bot natively. This requires you to have Python 3 and Pip installed on your machine:

sudo apt install python3 python3-pip

Install the Python dependencies.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Then execute the Python script.

python3 bot.py