Raider Hacks

2021-01-11

Making a discord bot (Part 2)

Jokes API code jokes.py from last meeting

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

Discord bot code jokes_bot.py from last meeting

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 token here.')

Adding the $joke command

The $joke command will allow users to request a joke from jokes API through the discord channel

Import the jokes.py file into your jokes_bot.py file by adding import jokes below the other import statment

Add this to the on_message function in jokes_bot.py

if message.content.startswith('$joke'):
        joke = jokes.get_joke()

        if joke == False:
            await message.channel.send("Couldn't get joke from API. Try again later.")
        else:
            await message.channel.send(joke['setup'] + '\n' + joke['punchline'])

What is this doing?

Line 1 checks if the string $joke was sent in the discord chat
Line 2 calls the get_joke() function from line 13 of jokes.py and saves it to the joke variable
Line 5 makes sure that we got a response from the jokes API before trying to send a joke
Line 7 formats the joke by accessing keys of setup and punchline from the joke object which is formatted as a python dictionary

Final code for jokes_bot.py

import discord
import jokes

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!')

    if message.content.startswith('$joke'):
        joke = jokes.get_joke()

        if joke == False:
            await message.channel.send("Couldn't get joke from API. Try again later.")
        else:
            await message.channel.send(joke['setup'] + '\n' + joke['punchline'])

client.run('your_bot_token')

Run python jokes_bot.py and see if it works in your server