zerodayowl / dice-bot-oulu

Python Discord Bot Template

Official Discord Bot from DICE 2023, Oulun Yliopisto

Template Credit

https://github.com/kkrypt0nn/Python-Discord-Bot-Template

How to download it

• Clone/Download the repository
  • To clone it and get the updates you can definitely use the command git clone https://github.com/TheRealDarkCoder/Dice-Bot-Oulu
• Create a discord bot here
• Get your bot token
• Invite your bot on servers using the following invite: https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?&client_id=YOUR_APPLICATION_ID_HERE&scope=bot+applications.commands&permissions=PERMISSIONS ( Replace YOUR_APPLICATION_ID_HERE with the application ID and replace PERMISSIONS with the required permissions your bot needs that it can be get at the bottom of a this page https://discord.com/developers/applications/YOUR_APPLICATION_ID_HERE/bot)

How to set up

To set up the bot it was made as simple as possible.

config.json file

There is config.json file where you can put the needed things to edit.

Here is an explanation of what everything is:

Variable	What it is
YOUR_BOT_PREFIX_HERE	The prefix you want to use for normal commands
YOUR_BOT_INVITE_LINK_HERE	The link to invite the bot

.env file

To set up the token you will have to either make use of the .env.example file, either copy or rename it to .env and replace YOUR_BOT_TOKEN_HERE with your bot's token.

Alternatively you can simply create an environment variable named TOKEN.

How to start

To start the bot you simply need to launch, either your terminal (Linux, Mac & Windows), or your Command Prompt ( Windows) .

Before running the bot you will need to install all the requirements with this command:

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

After that you can start it with

python bot.py

Note You may need to replace python with py, python3, python3.11, etc. depending on what Python versions you have installed on the machine.

Built With

• Python 3.11.5
• Why? Everyone can contribute.