Task 3: Creating a discord.py bare bones basic bot

[JayDwee]

Requirements

1. Add discord.py to your requirements.txt and use pip to add it to your packages (See task 1)
2. Use the following code to create a simple Ping Pong command

import discord
client = discord.Client()

@client.event
async def on_ready():
    print(f”Bot user {client.user} is ready.”)

@client.event
async def on_message(msg):
    if msg.author == client.user:
        return                           # Don’t respond to itself
    if msg.content == “Ping”:            # Check that the message content matches
        await msg.channel.send(“Pong!”)  # If it does, reply

client.run(TOKEN) #insert token here

3. Try it out by messaging Ping on your bot dev channel

Security:

1. Add python-dotenv to requirements.txt
2. Place your discord bot token into a .env file and import it into your program as an environment variable (see KoalaBot.py for an example of how to do it

Extension: virtual environment

• Instead of installing pip packages to your global python install, create a virtual environment in a venv folder, activate it, and then install all pip requirements within your new virtual environment
• This allows any issues with one virtual environment not to affect any others