#python bot

Step 1: HAVE A DISCORD ACCOUNT AND A SERVER!

Seeing as you’re here, I’ll assume you know what discord is and have an account. I won’t explain this bit to you (:

Step 2: MAKE A REPL.IT ACCOUNT 

Repl.it is where your bot’s code is gonna live, so you need to make an account for it!!

https://repl.it/signup?goto=%2F~

Step 3: STARTING THE BOT!

Now you’re gonna go to https://discord.com/developers/applications and make an application!

Once you’re there, click that blue “New Application” button and make a new application!

Once you've done that, you should be here

Now go to the bot section and click add bot

Congrats! You've got the beginnings of a robot! Do not close this tab, we'll need it later!

Step 4: ADDING THE BOT!

Now, you need to add the bot to a server so you can use it! 

Go to the “General Information” page of your bot/ app, and copy the application ID by clicking the handy little copy button

now, replace where this link says [YOUR CLIENT ID HERE] with your client ID and go to said link:

https://discordapp.com/api/oauth2/authorize?scope=bot&client_id=[YOUR CLIENT ID HERE]

(example: https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?scope=bot&client_id=714083849235333161)

Authorise it and bam! It's in your server!

Step 5: ACTUALLY CODING THE BOT!!

FINALLY! 

This bit is REALLY easy, because I’ve made you some base code, so you don’t have to do much!!

Go to: https://repl.it/@stealingpotatos/tutorialbotbase1

Now click the "Fork" button and you've got your own copy of the code!!! Well done!!

Here comes the actual coding! Replace "trigger word" with whatever you want to trigger the bot, and "response" with the-- well I'm sure you can work it out!

THE TRIGGER NEEDS TO BE IN ALL LOWER CASE

But your bot won't work just yet!

step 6: JOINING YOUR BOT AND CODE

Back in the Discord Dev Portal, go to the Bot tab and click "RESET TOKEN" and then copy it!

Back on repl.it, click the lock icon to enter the Secrets tab

Once you're there, add a new secret called "SUPER_SECRET_BOT_TOKEN" and make the value your copied bot token!

AND THATS IT!!! You have a working bot!!

I'm so proud of you!!!! :D

Have fun botting!!

extras: KEEPING YOUR BOT ONLINE

Because of the “keep_alive” function, your bot will continue to be online for about an hour after you close the tab.

But if you want it online all the time, here's a tutorial I made a while back on keeping your bot online 24/7!

extras: ADDING MORE RESPONSES

Super simple!! 

If you want multiple triggers for the same response, copy & paste the “(””) in message.content.lower()” part of the statement, + add an or

Like that!

And for adding another trigger/response entirely, just copy & paste the statement entirely, and change the “if” to an “elif” if you don’t want both things to trigger at once.

Like this!!

If you don’t already know python, I’d very much recommend learning it if you’re going to be doing more bot coding!!

Thank you for reading, and if you have ANY QUESTIONS AT ALL, my askbox is open (and has anon if you think the question is kinda dumb and don’t want your name on it. It’s not a dumb question, ask me!)

Step 1: HAVE A DISCORD ACCOUNT AND A SERVER!

Seeing as you’re here, I’ll assume you know what discord is and have an account. I won’t explain this bit to you.

Step 2: MAKE A REPL.IT ACCOUNT 

Repl.it is where your bot’s code is gonna live, so you need to make an account for it!!

https://repl.it/signup?goto=%2F~.

Step 3: STARTING THE BOT!

Now you’re gonna go to https://discord.com/developers/applications and make an application!

Once you’re there, click that blue “New Application” button and make a new application!

Once you’ve done that, you should be here: 

Ok, now go to the “Bot” section and add a robot to this thing!!

Keep this tab open, we need it for the rest of the tutorial. 

Right, now we’re getting somewhere!!!!!

Step 4: ADDING THE BOT!

Now, you need to add the bot to a server! 

Go to the “General Information” page of your bot/ app, and copy the client ID

now, replace where this link says [YOUR CLIENT ID HERE] with your client ID and go to said link:

https://discordapp.com/api/oauth2/authorize?scope=bot&client_id=[YOUR CLIENT ID HERE]

(example: https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?scope=bot&client_id=714083849235333161)

Authorise it, and bam! It’s in your server!

Step 5: ACTUALLY CODING THE BOT!!

FINALLY! 

This bit is REALLY easy, because I’ve made you some base code, so you don’t have to do much!!

Go to: https://repl.it/@stealingpotatos/tutorialbotbase1

Click the “fork” button, and you’ve got your own copy of the code!!!

Now, replace trigger word with whatever sentence/ word you’d like your bot to respond to. IT’S GOTTA BE IN LOWER CASE. IT WON’T WORK IF IT’S NOT.  

Then replace response with whatever you’d like your bot’s response to be!

But you’re not done yet!! Your bot still won’t work!!

For your bot to work, you’re gonna need to make a new file called “.env”

This is where your super secret bot token is gonna go! You’re putting it in a seperate file due to how repl.it code is public, and we don’t want people messing with your bot!

In your .env file, write “SUPER_SECRET_BOT_TOKEN=”, like this:

Now, we need to go back to your bot page, and copy the bot token 

Now, paste that bot token after “ SUPER_SECRET_BOT_TOKEN=“

(that’s a made up token by the way)

NOW YOU’RE DONE!!!!

Click that big green “run” button at the top, give it a minute, and test your bot!

I’M SUPER PROUD OF YOU, LOOK AT YOU GO!!!!

Your bot will respond to anyone saying the trigger word/ sentence in a message.

If it’s not working, double check you followed the tutorial right. If it’s still not working, send me a message or ask, and I’ll try to help you!!

Extras: KEEPING YOUR BOT ONLINE

Because of the “keep_alive” function, your bot will continue to be online for about an hour after you close the tab.

If you want to keep your bot online all the time, make an https://uptimerobot.com/ alert for the link in the bot alive page!

Extras: ADDING MORE TRIGGERS/RESPONSES

Super simple!! 

If you want multiple triggers for the same response, copy & paste the “(””) in message.content.lower()” part of the statement, add an or

Like that!

And for adding another trigger/response entirely, just copy & paste the statement entirely, and change the “if” to an “elif” if you don’t want both things to trigger at once.

Like this!!

If you don’t already know python, I’d very much recommend learning it if you’re going to be doing more bot coding!!

Thank you for reading, and if you have ANY QUESTIONS AT ALL, my askbox is open (and has anon if you think the question is kinda dumb and don’t want your name on it. It’s not a dumb question, ask me!)

so, for the record; benrybot (passbotry) is a bot coded on python using the discord.py API. it’s quite small, i only started work on it five days ago.

if y’all are interested in making a bot yourselves, the discord.py website has everything you need to install it and get started; bithub and stackoverflow are your friends.

anyways, i’m explaining the code from the start;

these are all the imports i’m using for the bot, they always go at the top of your code so that python recognizes and unpacks/processes all these imports before touching any of the other code.  imports are basically like additional code packs that you download and then can use on python.

most of these are just here to let me access discord.py’s features, except the ‘random’ import which is a randomizing commandset,

these lines of code and basically an authentication process telling me what the bot is online, and setting it’s status ( you can see i tried to label it with comments (the red writing))

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now here’s where the actual commands begin;

‘@client.event ‘ is the line that lets the bot know this is the start of a command, referred to as an event.  ‘client. ‘ is the prefix to most lines of code featuring the bot.

‘async def on_message(message):’ tells the program that the next line is defining what the bot will do during the command/event. ‘on_message’ means this event is triggered when any message is sent on the server.

‘ if message.content == “benbot test”: ‘  just means if there’s a message that says ‘benbot test’, we’ll initiate the next line of code. if not, the bot does nothing.

‘ await client.send_message(message.channel, “success”)’. ‘await’ lets the bot multitask, instead of waiting to finish any other processes it skips to the await line,  ‘client.sned_message’ send the message, ‘(message.channel,’ means it will be sent in the same channel and “success” was the content of our message.

so the result of these lines of code is:

the bot processes that ‘benbot test’ has been sent and replies in the same channel with it’s predetermined response (please don’t mind the bot’s nickname on this example.)

anyway, that’d be it for part one of benrybot’s behind the scenes. 

on the next post i’ll go into detail on benrybot’s more complex commands, formatting and the random.choice function.