Discord Bot Setup and Configuration

DISCORD BOT IS OUTDATED AND CURRENTLY NOT SUPPORTED.

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If you wish to use discord bot mode, you must do a few things first:

• Create/Obtain a Discord Server where you have the permissions to:

  • Invite the bot

  • Create a private text channel for you (and the bot)

    I made a new server for this purpose

• Invite your bot to above Discord Server:

  • Visit the discord developer portal
  • Create a New Application and add it to your Personal Team
  • Go to the Bot page for your application (sidebar)
  • Add Bot
  • Here you can set the Bot's Username and Icon
    • **SAVE YOUR TOKEN FOR LATER
    • No other options are necessary, however I recommend disabling the Public Bot switch
  • SAVE
  • Go to the OAuth2 page for your application (sidebar)
  • Copy the CLIENT ID
  • Replace your CLIENT ID with the one in the URL below:
    • https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id= 123456789123456789 &scope=bot&permissions=388160
  • Visit the modified URL in your browser and add your Bot to your Discord Server

• Properly edit the DISCORD section of data/config.json

  • Your discord_bot_token can be found in your discord developer portal if you didn't save earlier
  • The discord_bot_description can be whatever you like
  • The command_prefix is what you type before a command. e.g. ("." for .upload, or "!" for !upload)
  • To obtain your discord_channel_id and admin_id you must have Developer Mode turned on in your Discord client
    • To turn on Developer Mode, open your User Settings > Advanced > Developer Mode
    • To get the discord_channel_id, right click on the text channel and Copy ID. This ensures the bot can only execute commands from this text channel
    • To get the admin_id, right click your name from the user bar and Copy ID. This ensures that the bot only listens to your reactions.
  • search_dir is a path to your downloads directory. This is used as the place to search when using !search.
  • discord_emojis:
    • By default I have unicode emojis since they work on any server.
    • If you wish to use custom emojis, first add them to your server and then find their id by sending them in chat prefixed by a \ (\:emoji:). If done correctly you will see something that looks like <:emoji:123456789>. Copy and paste that into your configuration.