Having a bot in a social media site is no different than having a personal assistant to welcome people, check out different topics, make comments or reviews, and perform various other tasks related to maintaining your personal or professional online presence.
In today’s tutorial, we will be covering how to build a bot using Python for the popular social media site, Discord.
What is Discord
Discord is a platform that facilitates instant messaging, Voice-Over IP communication, and digital distribution of media. The users of this platform range from educators, various business, and gamers. Text, voice, images, and video are the streams of communication Discord has specialized in their chatting mediums.
Just like with most social networking sites, Discord offers an application programming interface for developers to build applications involving Discord. This is how today we will be developing a bot as well.
What Can You Do with A Bot in Discord?
Discord has been gaining popularity over the last few years. What this means to the communities managed by users in Discord is that more and more user traffic is generated within their guilds and servers. There are instances where inappropriate users have to be banned, user requests have to be taken care of, and so forth. All these human-centric tasks can be automated by using a bot that does everything for the human instead.
For instance, imagine you have a guild in Discord for a topic you are passionate about. Whenever people with similar passions and interests join your guild, you will make an attempt to make them feel welcomed in your guild. You might even make small talk with them and break the ice. If everything goes well, these new users will help you to grow the community. As time grows, there comes a certain point that makes you unable to respond to each and every user welcome personally.
This is when you will feel the need to have a bot in your workflow. The whole process you have employed to help your community to grow can be scaled up with an automated bot and can be further continued to sustain the users and the dynamic of the community. This is just one instance when it can be useful.
Let’s get started.
Setting Up Discord
When we are developing in a bot in Discord, we are required to first set up and configure the developer account. Let’s do that now using the following main steps.
- Create a Discord account
- Create an application in Discord
- Registering a new bot
- Creating a guild
First of all, visit the Discord developer portal. If you already have an account, use your credentials to log in. If you are a new user, go ahead and create a Discord account. Make sure that you verify your email before continuing.
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