Create Your Own Free Discord Bot with Discord.py | 2020 Update

Create Your Own Free Discord Bot with Discord.py | 2020 Update

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Setting up Discord Pi
3. Importing Packages and Configuring the Bot
4. Defining the Client and Event Handling
5. Creating Basic Commands
6. Setting up the Config File
7. Obtaining Your Discord Token
8. Testing the Bot
9. Conclusion

Introduction Discord Pi is a powerful Python library designed for creating Discord bots and utilizing the Discord API. In this tutorial series, we will learn how to set up and use Discord Pi to build our own bots. This first video will cover the initial steps of installation and configuration.

Setting up Discord Pi Before we can start building bots with Discord Pi, we need to set up our development environment. We will be using Visual Studio Code and Python 3 for this tutorial. Detailed instructions for downloading and installing these tools can be found in the description below.

Importing Packages and Configuring the Bot To get started, we need to import the necessary packages and configure our bot. We will be importing the discord Package and the commands extension from the discord.ext module. Additionally, we will import json for handling the configuration file. The prefix and other settings will be stored in a separate config.json file.

Defining the Client and Event Handling Next, we will define the Discord client and set up the event handling. The client is responsible for connecting to Discord and providing input and output functionality for our bot. We will define the client using the commands.Bot class and set the command prefix to the value specified in the config file. The on_ready event handler will be used to notify us when the bot is online.

Creating Basic Commands Now that our bot is set up, we can start creating basic commands. In this video, we will focus on creating a simple ping command. We will define the command using the @client.command decorator and the ctx parameter. The bot will respond with a "pong" message when the command is executed.

Setting up the Config File In order to properly configure our bot, we need to set up the config.json file. This file will contain the bot token and other settings. We will use JSON format and define the token and prefix within the file.

Obtaining Your Discord Token To connect our bot to Discord, we need to obtain a unique token from the Discord Developer Portal. We will provide a link to the portal in the description below. Once we have the token, we can paste it into the config.json file.

Testing the Bot With everything set up, it's time to test our bot. We can run the bot using the "run" command and check if it successfully connects to Discord. We can then use the defined command to make sure our bot responds correctly.

Conclusion In this first video of the Discord Pi tutorial series, we have learned how to set up our development environment, import packages, configure the bot, define the client, and create basic commands. In the next video, we will explore more advanced features of Discord Pi, such as presence change and user commands.