discord-bot-from-scratch

This is a discord bot created from scratch in python using only WebSocket and REST API, as a research project on the discord API.

YAML format

token: token-goes-here
prefix: prefix-goes-here

Requirements

• websocket-client
• json
• requests
• yaml

Files and Directories

• src: The source directory
• main.py: The main python file
• config.yml: Config file
• requirements.txt: List of all dependencies
• response.json: An example json response from discord

Library and API used

• This project does not use any third-party discord bot libraries
• The project only uses Discord API and the Discord Gateway

Getting Started

• 1. Create a config.yml file, write the token and the prefix into it
• 2. Set the path of the config.yml file in the main.py script
• 3. Start the bot with python3 main.py

Code Style

• This project uses the Google Python Coding Style

LICENSE

• MIT License

Contribution

• Contribution is allowed with a pull request, please make sure you follow the code style