Discord Bot

Members

• Brian Demyan
• Deni Velasquez
• Kaleb Missmer

Description

This Discord bot is a simple example bot that can be used to interact with users in a Discord server. It can respond to various commands and events, such as greeting users when they send a specific message.

Tutorial Used for Project

Discord Bot Youtube Tutorial

Features

• Greeting users with a response when they send !hello in a text channel.
• Providing inspiring quotes to users who send !motivate command.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Python 3.6 or higher
• Discord.py library
• Redis database

Installation

1. Clone or download this repository to your local machine.
2. Create a Discord bot and obtain its token. You can follow the official Discord documentation on how to create a bot and obtain its token.
3. Create a .env file in the project directory and add the following line to it:

   BOT_TOKEN=YOUR_DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN
   

Running on a local machine

1. Make the run_bot.sh script executable by running:

   chmod +x run_bot.sh
   

2. Run the bot by executing the run_bot.sh script:

   ./run_bot.sh
   

3. The bot will log in and be ready to respond to commands and events in the Discord server.

Running on a AWS EC2 Instance

1. Install git

   sudo yum install git
   

2. Clone the repository

3. Go into to your discord-bot folder

4. Create the virtual environment

   python3 -m venv .venv
   source .venv/bin/activate
   

5. Install requirements

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

6. Install redis6 for AWS 2023

   sudo yum install redis6
   

7. Open a new terminal and run Redis6 server

   redis6-server
   

8. Make a third terminal and confirm the server is connected

   redis6-cli
   

9. Create a Discord bot and obtain its token. You can follow the official Discord documentation on how to create a bot and obtain its token.

10. Create a .env file in the project directory and add the following line to it:

    BOT_TOKEN=YOUR_DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN
    

11. Run the application

python3 app.py

Running through Docker on a AWS EC2 Instance

1. Install Docker

   sudo yum install -y docker
   

2. Launch Docker

   sudo systemctl enable docker
   sudo systemctl starat docker
   

3. Interact as ec-2 user

   sudo usermod -a -G docker ec2-user
   

4. Change host in db.py edit:

   def __init__(self, host='localhost', port=6379, db=0):
   

   to:

   def __init__(self, host='redisdb', port=6379, db=0):
   

5. Build the Docker image for the program

   cd discord-bot/
   docker build -t discord-bot .
   

6. Create a Docker network for your redis database to run over

   docker network create -d bridge botdb
   

7. Run dock_aws.sh to run redis and the bot through Docker

   bash dock_aws.sh
   

Commands

• !hello: Greet the user who sends the command with a response.
• !motivate: Gives the user who sends the command an inspiring quote.

SSL Verification Error MacOS Solution

1. Install Certifi

   pip install certifi
   

2. Run the script

   /Applications/Python\ 3.12/Install\ Certificates.command