Dusk Bot

A general purpose custom Discord bot that adds useful features as well as fun little tricks to keep members entertained.

requirements:

• discord.py
• A bot token. must authorize here
• .env
• Motor
• pymongo
• Python 3.x

Setup

To set up locally, first pull the repo

git clone https://github.com/tscheer100/Dusk-Bot.git

then create a .env file within the root folder of the repo.

touch .env

edit the .env file

nano .env

once in the file, add your discord token with the following syntax

DISCORD_TOKEN="U2OTA3MTQ3ODk5Njkjkz.X2Yqtg.FSGfvEqZILo"

run the bot using python

python3 dusk.py

What I've learned from this project:

• Tenerary Operators and how to use them to circumnavigate Discord embed's lack of support for regular if-else statements.
• Familiarized myself with .gitignore as not to leak data to the public.
• learned about .env and how it can be used to seperate data from the rest of the code.
• Strengthened knowledge on Discord's API with discord.py
• Dipped my toes in the difference between handling discord specific errors and python errors. the discord specific errors can be found here
• Dealt with SSH and raspberry pi. learned that pi zeros only support 2.4ghz band.
• Learned about embed editing.
• Got more experience integrating JSON into Python.
• Gained more understanding as to when to use the self command to call other methods within a class.
• learned about MongoDB and how it is not good with discord.py and rather to use Motor to stop with blocking
• learned the basics of database manipulation
• learned how to call a method from one cog to another
• learned about the reversed command