discord-bot

A friendly bot that talks to you on Discord and listens to your commands

Try it here-

Bot name - DiscordBot

Invite link - https://discord.com/api/oauth2/authorize?client_id=708750207114018856&permissions=0&scope=bot

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Functionalities-

1. The bot replies to a "Hi" with a "Hey"

2. The bot will search for the user provided query on Google and return top 5 links for the same. For example, if you want the bot to search for "real madrid", issue the command -

   !google real madrid

3. The bot will maintain a cache of the user's search history.

4. If we query for a word in the search history, the bot will return the previosuly searched terms which match the word

Usage -

!recent madrid # This will return "real madrid" as it was searched earlier and was stored in the user's history

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Pre-requisites-

redis-server and redis-cli

[Optional] To ensure that the process running the bot is highly available, it is advisable to use tools like supervisor

Refer to sample_supervisord.conf for sample configuration required to orchestrate the process running the bot through supervisor

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Environment setup-

Create a virtual environment and install the dependencies present in requirements.txt

Create a file titled .env in the folder containing the bot.py and add the following line to it-

DISCORD_TOKEN={your-bot's-token}

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Usage-

Once the virtual environment is activated and all the dependencies are installed, and the .env file is setup

Navigate to the discord-bot folder and execute the python script bot.py

python bot.py

Else if using supervisor, simply run -

sudo supervisorctl start discord_bot