Building a Discord Bot in Python (2024) Episode One: Getting Started

Hey guys, today we reboot an old series on my channel on building your very own Discord Bot in Python. This series will cover some of the new stuff that has been added to Discord and its pythonic API since the old series has been out. Subscribe!

Music Credits:

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Intro is made by somebody else on panzoid, only changed the music Tranquillity - ProdRiddiman)
Outro is made by me :)
Outro Music is "In A Cabin By The Lake" by Lazarus Moment!

[Gamingmats]

U HAVE THE SAME BACKGROUNDOF PC AS ME!!! also tnx for making an updated version of the series

[jetupny]

Thank you! On to your next tute! name and aliases are a gem!

[cauaribeiro]

You teach very well, I'm from Brazil and I loved your teaching, keep the videos coming!

[kayohmedy]

Learning python through the use of Discord botting. Even tho it's the first video in the series, I have now learnt to mask my token! Thank you!

[ecommercewithjay]

Thank you so much. I had to go to my python folder in applications folder on mac and double click the certificates file to install ssl certs and did some stackoverflow research; and the code you presented worked fine. Thank you so much hitting like and subscribe button.

[madscience]

Thank you for how straightforward this is. I'm trying to make a bot to scrape my private server from when my wife and I were LDR. I'm then gonna feed all that into chatgpt, and make the bot mimic me. Yes, kinda like that black mirror episode...

[aseirexe]

this was really nice and easy to follow. cant wait to continue to work through and set things up.

[BenneyYTTV]

Good stuff. I’m learning and looking forward to following along

[angelo]

i am getting this error ImportError: cannot import name 'commands' from 'discord'. Pls some help. can't go any further without fixing that

[xvqprws]

very good video, I can't wait to see the next videos. :D

[Haydonw]

I'm very new on every on coding and stuff im trying to learn new things so lets hope this video helps :D

[sik]

PS &
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\Users\sikha\Desktop\python\main.py", line 1, in <module>
import discord
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'discord' this is the error i get when running this programm any one know what the issue is?? PLS HELP ME

[sonofeazydekko]

When I try to run it I get the error ConnectionRefusedError: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it

[MrGaming-twln]

Paradox please please I have request to create a welcome message tutorial with the user image who joined and name on it maybe by pillow please make tutorial video on that.

[static_crypto]

the pip install discord command is not working and it says pip is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

[Cleverwolfano]

What's the difference between using a txt file and a .env file for hiding the token?

[GiorgioTM]

idk why im here, not whjy this is on my page but i pressed on it becasue u look justg like austincs withoutb glasses and better beard

[spsc]

following it, i hope you do upload tomorrow too

[joakim]

i cant use C:\Users\aspjo>pip insatll discord
'pip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

[welshtony]

working great until I created the file.
FileNotFoundError
[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'token.txt'

Exactly the same code as you have done :/

EDIT: Figured it out and leaving this here just encase anyone else has the same issue. The projects folder I had my bot in was call "Discord Bot" - Python doesn't like the space so I renamed it "Discord_Bot" and that fixed it :)

Thanks for these videos. I programed a discord bot years ago with the original Python and it is a mess and I couldn't work out how to upgrade to 2.0 for slash commands. Hopefully your videos will help me :)