Making a discord bot (Part 1)

An actually readable version of this is avaliable here https://github.com/RaiderHacks/9-22/blob/master/notes.md

Part 1: calling the jokes API

Make a new

environment, Go to https://repl.it/

Under language select Bash and name it jokes-bot

In the terminal make a new python file using the touch command

Write the following code in the new python file

import requests

URL = 'https://official-joke-api.appspot.com/random_joke'


def check_valid_status_code(request):
    if request.status_code == 200:
        return request.json()

    return False


def get_joke():
    request = requests.get(URL)
    data = check_valid_status_code(request)

    return data

print(get_joke())

• Run the code with python main.py
• What happens?

{
    'id': 25,
    'type': 'programming', 
    'setup': 'How many programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?',
    'punchline': "None that's a hardware problem"
}

Part2: Setting up a Discord server & Bot

Make your own discord server

Sign into https://discord.com/developers/applications

Click on New Application

Give your bot a name

Under Settings > Bot > Authorization Flow Make sure the PUBLIC BOT option is enabled and the REQUIRES OAUTH2 CODE GRANT option is disabled

Under the settings tab navigate to OAuth2 > Scopes

Under Scopes select Bot then you will see a new section named BOT PERMISSIONS under that section select Administrator

Now copy the link under scopes and paste it into a new browser window

Select the server we set up earlier & click Authorize on the next window

Part 3: Interacting with your bot

Go back to your Repl environment and install the discord and requests modules

pip install discord
pip install requests

### Create a new python file named bot.py

touch bot.py

Now paste this code into bot.py

On line 19 of the previous snippet notice client.run('your_bot_token')

import discord

client = discord.Client()


@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print('We have logged in as {0.user}'.format(client))


@client.event
async def on_message(message):
    if message.author == client.user:
        return

    if message.content.startswith('$hello'):
        await message.channel.send('Hello!')

client.run('your_bot_token')    

Navigate back to https://discord.com/developers/applications Settings > Bot > Build-A-Bot and select copy under TOKEN

Navigate back to https://repl.it and replace the string on line 19 with your token

It will look something like this

In your console run python bot.py. Don't exit this

In your discord server type $hello to interact with your bot