Created a discord bot

Author: Federico

bigger_projects/discord_bot/knowledge.json

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+{
+  "hello": "Hey there!",
+  "how are you?": "I am good, thanks!",
+  "do you know what the time is?": "Not at all!",
+  "what time is it?": "No clue!",
+  "what can you do?": "I can answer questions!",
+  "ok": "Great."
+}

bigger_projects/discord_bot/main.py

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+from discord import Intents, Client
+
+import responses
+
+
+def run_bot(token: str):
+    """Run our Discord Bot with the token provided"""
+
+    # Basic setup
+    intents = Intents.default()
+    intents.message_content = True
+    client = Client(intents=intents)
+    knowledge: dict = responses.load_knowledge('knowledge.json')
+
+    @client.event
+    async def on_ready():
+        """Print a startup message for our bot when it goes online."""
+
+        print(f'{client.user} is now running!')
+
+    @client.event
+    async def on_message(message):
+        """Handle incoming messages from our server."""
+
+        # client.user is the bot, the bot shouldn't respond to itself
+        if message.author == client.user:
+            return
+
+        # If the user wrote something, send a response to the channel
+        if message.content:
+            print(f'({message.channel}) {message.author}: "{message.content}"')
+            response: str = responses.get_response(message.content, knowledge=knowledge)
+            await message.channel.send(response)
+        else:
+            print('!!!Could not read the message, make sure you enabled intents!!!')
+
+    # Run the bot with our token
+    client.run(token=token)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    run_bot(token='YOUR_KEY')

bigger_projects/discord_bot/responses.py

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+from difflib import get_close_matches
+import json
+
+
+def get_best_match(user_question: str, questions: dict) -> str | None:
+    """Compares the user message similarity to the ones in the dictionary"""
+
+    questions: list[str] = [q for q in questions]
+    matches: list = get_close_matches(user_question, questions, n=1, cutoff=0.6)
+
+    # Return the first best match, else return None
+    if matches:
+        return matches[0]
+
+
+def get_response(message: str, knowledge: dict) -> str:
+    while True:
+        # Finds the best match, otherwise returns None
+        best_match: str | None = get_best_match(message, knowledge)
+
+        # Gets the best match from the knowledge base
+        if answer := knowledge.get(best_match):
+            return answer
+        else:
+            return 'I don\'t understand... Could you try rephrasing that?'
+
+
+def load_knowledge(file: str) -> dict:
+    with open(file, 'r') as f:
+        return json.load(f)
+
+
+# if __name__ == "__main__":
+#     test_knowledge: dict = load_knowledge('knowledge.json')
+#     test_response: str = get_response('hello', knowledge=test_knowledge)
+#     print(test_response)
+

requirements.txt

@@ -58,4 +58,5 @@ beautifulsoup4~=4.12.2
 pypdf2~=3.0.1
 pygame~=2.4.0
 customtkinter~=5.1.3
-geopy~=2.3.0
+geopy~=2.3.0
+discord~=2.3.0