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Discord ChatBot

main.py will be the file you run in order to start the bot.

In order to make things easier to understand, we'll divide the features of the chatbot into more functions that are located in different modules (files).

For example: in order for the bot to respond to your "!hello", the main.py file imports the function named basicFunctions from the basicFunctionsFile module.

This way, not only won't we have an endless main.py module but we will also be able to work individually on various features within our own modules and once completed, simply import them in main.py with a single line of code.

botClient.py is required for the bot to run, it basically makes the variable client (which happens to be used literally everywhere in our code) connect our code to Discord (or something like that I guess).

So for every new module/file you create, don't forget to add from botClient import client.

Requirements:

Get PyCharm, get pip and the rest of the libraries, PYTHON 3.6.6 (3.7 has problems with discord lib) https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py (Download it, also check the README, it has instructions on how to install)

Update to the new discord.py 1.0 lib (rewrite ver.)

Make sure you get the latest version of discord.py! Not 0.16, but 1.0 (REWRITE) In order to do this, upgrade your pip from 10 to 18 using python -m pip install --upgrade pip in command prompt.

After that, use the command python -m pip install -U git+https://github.com/Rapptz/discord.py@rewrite#egg=discord.py[voice] in PyCharm Terminal.

Note that the latest version of discord.py (rewrite) has some changes, it's almost like an entirely different library. Even so, it's better if we make the change now while we will learn than later.

Here is the documentation: https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/rewrite/migrating.html

Basically you're gonna have this open in a tab at all times, it's pretty much a manual Even the way you send messages has been changed: https://discordpy.readthedocs.io/en/rewrite/migrating.html#migrating-1-0-sending-messages

Also, the discord.py 1.0 REWRITE library is new, it's been scheduled to fully release on 2018/11/01. This means that most video guides on YouTube will require most of the commands to be converted to discord.py 1.0 (from 0.16).