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🐍 A simple template to start to code your own and personalized Discord bot in Python
https://github.com/kkrypt0nn/python-discord-bot-template

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🐍 A simple template to start to code your own and personalized Discord bot in Python

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# Python Discord Bot Template





  

  

  

  

  

  

  




This repository is a template that everyone can use for the start of their Discord bot.



When I first started creating my Discord bot it took me a while to get everything setup and working with cogs and more.

I would've been happy if there were any template existing. However, there wasn't any existing template. That's why I

decided to create my own template to let **you** guys create your Discord bot easily.



Please note that this template is not supposed to be the best template, but a good template to start learning how

discord.py works and to make your own bot easily.



If you plan to use this template to make your own template or bot, you **have to**:



- Keep the credits, and a link to this repository in all the files that contains my code

- Keep the same license for unchanged code



See [the license file](https://github.com/kkrypt0nn/Python-Discord-Bot-Template/blob/master/LICENSE.md) for more

information, I reserve the right to take down any repository that does not meet these requirements.



## Support



Before requesting support, you should know that this template requires you to have at least a **basic knowledge** of

Python and the library is made for **advanced users**. Do not use this template if you don't know the

basics or some advanced topics such as OOP or async. [Here's](https://pythondiscord.com/pages/resources) a link for resources to learn python.



If you need some help for something, do not hesitate to join my Discord server [here](https://discord.gg/mTBrXyWxAF).



All the updates of the template are available [here](UPDATES.md).



## Disclaimer



Slash commands can take some time to get registered globally, so if you want to test a command you should use

the `@app_commands.guilds()` decorator so that it gets registered instantly. Example:



```py

@commands.hybrid_command(

  name="command",

  description="Command description",

)

@app_commands.guilds(discord.Object(id=GUILD_ID)) # Place your guild ID here

```



When using the template you confirm that you have read the [license](LICENSE.md) and comprehend that I can take down

your repository if you do not meet these requirements.



## How to download it



This repository is now a template, on the top left you can simply click on "**Use this template**" to create a GitHub

repository based on this template.



Alternatively you can do the following:



- Clone/Download the repository

  - To clone it and get the updates you can definitely use the command

    `git clone`

- Create a Discord bot [here](https://discord.com/developers/applications)

- Get your bot token

- Invite your bot on servers using the following invite:

  https://discord.com/oauth2/authorize?&client_id=YOUR_APPLICATION_ID_HERE&scope=bot+applications.commands&permissions=PERMISSIONS (

  Replace `YOUR_APPLICATION_ID_HERE` with the application ID and replace `PERMISSIONS` with the required permissions

  your bot needs that it can be get at the bottom of a this

  page https://discord.com/developers/applications/YOUR_APPLICATION_ID_HERE/bot)



## How to set up



To set up the bot it was made as simple as possible.



### `config.json` file



There is [`config.json`](config.json) file where you can put the

needed things to edit.



Here is an explanation of what everything is:



| Variable                  | What it is                                     |

| ------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------- |

| YOUR_BOT_PREFIX_HERE      | The prefix you want to use for normal commands |

| YOUR_BOT_INVITE_LINK_HERE | The link to invite the bot                     |



### `.env` file



To set up the token you will have to make use of the [`.env.example`](.env.example) file, you should rename it to `.env` and replace `YOUR_BOT_TOKEN_HERE` with your actual bot's token.



Alternatively you can simply create an environment variable named `TOKEN`.



## How to start



To start the bot you simply need to launch, either your terminal (Linux, Mac & Windows), or your Command Prompt (

Windows)

.



Before running the bot you will need to install all the requirements with this command:



```

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

```



After that you can start it with



```

python bot.py

```



> **Note** You may need to replace `python` with `py`, `python3`, `python3.11`, etc. depending on what Python versions you have installed on the machine.



## Issues or Questions



If you have any issues or questions of how to code a specific command, you can:



- Join my Discord server [here](https://discord.gg/mTBrXyWxAF)

- Post them [here](https://github.com/kkrypt0nn/Python-Discord-Bot-Template/issues)



Me or other people will take their time to answer and help you.



## Versioning



We use [SemVer](http://semver.org) for versioning. For the versions available, see

the [tags on this repository](https://github.com/kkrypt0nn/Python-Discord-Bot-Template/tags).



## Built With



- [Python 3.11.5](https://www.python.org/)



## License



This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md) file for details