Blockbot

This Discord bot uses the interactions.py module to interface with the Discord API.

For help with using the module, check out the documentation.

Overview

main.py:

• A custom, dynamic extension (command) loader. Write an extension in the extensions/ directory, and it will automatically be loaded when the bot boots.

extensions/:

• This directory is home to the custom extensions (known as cogs in discord.py, or command groups) that are loaded when the bot is started. Extensions are classes that encapsulate command logic and can be dynamically loaded/unloaded.

config.py:

• This module houses the bot configuration. The values are loaded from environment variables, so you can set them in your shell or in a .env file.

Installation

1. Clone this repository. To switch to a different version, cd into this cloned repository and run git checkout [branch name/version here]
2. It's generally advised to work in a Python virtual environment. Here are steps to create one (the discord-py-interactions library requires Python 3.10.0 or later):

• $ python3 -m venv env
• $ source env/bin/activate

3. Create a Discord bot token from here
   Register it for slash commands:

• Under OAuth2 > General, set the Authorization Method to "In-app Authorization"
• Tick bot and applications.commands
• Go to OAuth2 > URL Generator, tick bot and applications.commands
• Copy the generated URL at the bottom of the page to invite it to desired servers

4. Make a new file called .env inside the repo folder and paste the below code block in the file

TOKEN=<paste Discord bot token here>

5. Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install packages. You'll need Python 3.10 or later
6. Once that's done, run the bot by executing python3 main.py in the terminal

If you aren't sure how to obtain your server ID, check out this article

If you get errors related to missing token environment variables, run source .env