There are many ways to make an Discord Bot, But the most easy way to make a bot is by Python Programming Language
This is an simplified version of discord.py documentation which is at 👉here.
Prerequisites :
- Discord Account(Obviously)
- discord.py works on Python 3.5.3 or higher
- Python 3.4 or lower non supported due to it does not have the dependencies(aiohttp)
- Python 2.7 or lower unsupported
- You can get the library directly from PyPi:
python3 -m pip install - U discord.py- If you are using Windows, then the following should be used instead:
py -3 -m pip install -U discord.py- To get voice support, you should use discord.py[voice] instead of discord.py, e.g.
python3 -m pip install -U discord.py[voice]- On Linux environments, installing voice requires getting the following dependencies:
- For a Debian-based system, the following command will get these dependencies:
- $ apt install libffi-dev libnacl-dev python3-dev
- if you have some error try writing sudo at start and enter your admin password
Virtual Environment is a concept of an library of Python 3.3, which helps us to use the specified different version of library for a specific project
With help of this we don't need to update our every project for every library version update
A more in-depth tutorial is found on Virtual Environments and Packages.
- Go to your project’s working directory:
$ cd your-bot-source $ python3 -m venv bot-env-
Activate the virtual environment:
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$ source bot-env/bin/activate
On Windows you activate it with:
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$ bot-env\Scripts\activate.bat
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- For a Debian-based system, the following command will get these dependencies:
- $ apt install libffi-dev libnacl-dev python3-dev
- if you have some error try writing "sudo" at start and enter your admin password
I Know, I Know I know that this page is full copy of the introduction page of python documentation of discord.py.
I tried to read the full documentation for creating a disk bot, but the website is similar to (In a good sense) a dictionary rather than a guide to creating a bot.
In Next Post I Will Try to Explain the Ways of making a bot
