Creating a Discord bot in Python. Part 1

Greetings, Khabrovites and other Internet users. Today I will start a series of articles devoted to creating a Discord bot using the discord.py library. We will look at creating both a primitive bot and an "advanced" bot with modules. In this article, we will make a standard command and another small command. Let's get started!

Creating a bot and getting a token

In order to add a bot to the server, you need to create your own application and copy the Client ID in the General Information tab.

Here we replace CLID with the previously copied Client ID.

https://discordapp.com/oauth2/authorize?&client_id=CLID&scope=bot&permissions=8

In the Bot tab, create a bot and copy the token.

Coding

Install the library itself.

pip install discord

Create a config.py file (this is more convenient), and create a dictionary there.

settings = {
    'token': ' ',
    'bot': ' ',
    'id': Client ID ,  ,
    'prefix': ' '
}

We create a main file, the name can be anything.

We import libraries and our config file:

import discord
from discord.ext import commands
from config import settings

Create a bot "body", the name can be any:

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix = settings['prefix']) #       settings,      prefix.

Let's start writing the main code.

@bot.command() #    pass_context,        .
async def hello(ctx): #      ctx.
    author = ctx.message.author #   author      .

    await ctx.send(f'Hello, {author.mention}!') #     ,    author.

At the end, start the bot with:

bot.run(settings['token']) #    settings   token,   

import discord
from discord.ext import commands
from config import settings

bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix = settings['prefix'])

@bot.command() #    pass_context,        .
async def hello(ctx): #      ctx.
    author = ctx.message.author #   author      .
    await ctx.send(f'Hello, {author.mention}!') #     ,    author.

bot.run(settings['token']) #    settings   token,   

It should look like this:

Bonus tutorial!

Let's make a conclusion of random pictures with foxes

To do this, we import a couple more libraries:

import json
import requests

Let's start writing the command.

@bot.command()
async def fox(ctx):
    response = requests.get('https://some-random-api.ml/img/fox') # Get-
    json_data = json.loads(response.text) #  JSON

    embed = discord.Embed(color = 0xff9900, title = 'Random Fox') #  Embed'a
    embed.set_image(url = json_data['link']) #   Embed'a
    await ctx.send(embed = embed) #  Embed

It should look like this:

the end

This completes Part 1. Part 2 coming soon.