Build a Bot to Take Control | Discord Bots for Pros Part 3
Let's write a Discord bot using Python and the Discord REST API!
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This is part of the Python Bots: Transform & Roll out - Discord series.
I'll write a bot that can help us automate the management of a Discord channel, inviting users, adding roles, moderating channels and permissions, updating channel settings, and, of course, interacting with user messages.
And, time permitting, I'll see if I can hook our bot up to a large language model like GPT4!
Abstract
In this session, I'll show you how to get started writing bots and automations for the Discord VoIP and instant messaging platform.
Discord is an extremely popular platform for organizing open source communities, and our bots will look at automating common community organizing tasks. I'll walk you through implementing some basic functionality on top of the Discord REST API and leave you with a starting point to extend this code with your own features and functionality!
Goals
My goals for you in this series are to write a bot that:
can invite or remove users, as well as update user roles
can see messages from users
can respond to these users as part of an ongoing conversation
can integrate those responses into a conversation to implement custom behaviours (e.g., scheduled messages)