Discord Bot

Creating Bot

1. Discord developer portal. https://discord.com/developers/applications. Create a new bot and give it a name and permissions
2. Set permissions
3. Generate token
4. Installation Tab > Guild Install
5. Open the install link

Python Scripting

Boilerplate: Use Python dotenv to hide the API keys

import asyncio
import discord
from discord.ext import commands
from discord import app_commands
 
async def main():
    TOKEN = "[YOUR TOKEN HERE]" # Homework: Load from a .env file, since putting tokens in code is bad practice
 
    # BOT SETUP
    intents = discord.Intents.all()
    intents.message_content = True  # Enable the message content intent
    intents.members = True  # Enable the message content intent
    bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix="!", intents=intents)  # Set a command prefix
 
    # Event to show bot is ready
    @bot.event
    async def on_ready():
        print(f'We have logged in as {bot.user}')
 
        await bot.tree.sync()
    
    # Run the bot
    await bot.start(TOKEN)
 
 
if __name__ == '__main__':
    asyncio.run(main())