Discord Bot Documentation

A bot that allows only links to be posted in channels. Whenever someone posts a non-link message, this bot deletes the message.
Has additional features which utilize some of the free Public APIs listed @ https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis

Contents

• List of Available commands
• Try Running it yourself !

List of available commands

I added some additional features to this bot as well ! Type the following commands in the chat to get a response from the bot !

• $greet - Greets the user and redirects to this repo.

• $inspire - The bot sends randomly retreived Inspirational quotes fetched from here.

• $xkcd number - The bot sends randomly retreived XKCD Comic strips fetched from here.

• $joke - The bot sends randomly retreived jokes fetched from here.

• $BardofAvon <some text> - The bot responds with Shakespearean translation of <sometext> from here.

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Try Running it yourself

• Install requirements This can be done by navigating to the directory having requirments.txt and running the following in the terminal:

  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• Create your Discord own bot and generate it's Token

  • You'll need to have a Discord account and make sure you have access to their developer portal.
  • Create a bot and then generate a token and copy it.
  • Add the bot to your Discord Server

• Run the project

  • In the first_bot.py file, put your copied token in the client.run() function at the end as a string.
  • All that's left to do now is run the Project ! You can do so by :

python first_bot.py

or

python3 first_bot.py

The script is running successfully and your bot is functional if you see the following in the terminal :

The bot has started.
<BOT username>#number

All Done ✨