Yet Another Open Source Discord Bot

I made this bot in Linux, so I don't know what problems will occur running it on Windows or MacOS. Also, make sure you are running Python 3.8 or later. As of writing this, I am currently using Python 3.10.6.

We also need to make sure the following packages are installed on your system:

• ffmpeg
• libffi
• python3-dev

These packages are all needed for discord voice support and music playing. Unfortunately, none of those links tell you how to install these packages, so here is a quick guide:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg libffi-dev python3-dev

sudo pacman -S ffmpeg libffi

Note: Arch ships header files with the regular package, so there are no -dev packages to worry about. More info here.

First, you need to configure the RPMfusion repository in order to install ffmpeg. To do so, you can use the two commands from this article:

sudo dnf -y install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf -y install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

Then, dnf should be able to handle the rest:

sudo dnf updateinfo && sudo dnf install ffmpeg libffi-devel python3-devel

First we need to create a simple virtual environment.

python3 -m venv bot-env
source bot-env/bin/activate

Then install the modules in requirements.txt:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Note: I want to also make an optional conda install, since I prefer conda to venv, and since some packages like libffi are available through conda, which might make everyone's lives easier. However, I found that some of the needed packages were not available through conda, so whether this will ever be implemented is up in the air.

One more step. Create a file named .env with variable token equal to your Discord Bot code.

Example:

File: .env
----------
token = 42069694206969.42069694206969.42069694206969

Now we're ready. Just run main.py and you should be all set

python3 main.py