microsoft-python-discord-bot

A bot for the Microsoft Python Discord community

Setup

Install poetry

Get the latest version of Poetry from https://python-poetry.org/.

Confirm installation by running poetry -V, you can expect to see an output like:

$ poetry -V
Poetry version 1.0.9

Install dependencies

Run poetry install to install all dependencies needed to run the bot.

Create a Discord application

Check out the guide from the discord.py docs on how to create a bot account: https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/discord.html

Additionally invite the bot to your server at this stage.

Create a .env file

Secrets are stored in the .env file.

You should create a .env file that looks like the following:

TOKEN=<the token from the Developer website>

Create a non-secret TOML file

For configuration that is not a secret a TOML file is used. The defaults should be good enough for most people but if you want to override them then you can create a file named config.toml which will be used instead of the defaults.

Run the bot!

You can run the bot with poetry run bot.