Building a Discord Bot with Python - Bot Basics
How to make a Basic Discord Bot with Python
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In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to get started with building bots for Discord. You will learn how to create a bot user for running a bot, how to install the necessary libraries, and write a bot that can respond to messages and commands.
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Python-dotenv Documentation
Python Discord Bot Template
Note:
- At 8:30, the package you should install is "python-dotenv" instead of "dotenv-python."
- At 9:30, "ctx" is used as a parameter when this is really a Message object and not Context. To make it more clear, I have renamed the variable to "message" in the GitHub repo. In any case, using commands is a better practice and don't use on_message at the same time as commands since they conflict.
In future videos in this series, I will show you how you can:
* Host your bot for free online 24/7
* Build cog modules to help make your code more maintainable
* Implement a fancy Help Command
* Interact with other APIs to make useful bot features
* Much more
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In this video:
0:00 - Introduction
0:14 - Making a GitHub repo
1:25 - Creating the main bot structure
2:08 - Installing Discord.py
3:05 - Creating a bot user
4:17 - Creating and loading environment variables
5:48 - Creating a bot in Python
8:10 - Loading more environment variables
9:20 - Listening for messages
10:34 - Adding the bot to a Discord server
12:40 - Debugging in Visual Studio Code
14:20 - Making a ping command
16:13 - Adding command documentation
17:03 - What's Next
17:28 - Conclusion
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