(2020) How to Code Your Own Discord Bot in Python #1 - Setting Up + Creating Your First Bot!

Hello friends! My name is Ajay, and I am a rising senior in high school. In this mini-series, I teach you how to create your very own bot for Discord using Python!

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Thanks for watching, and feel free to ask questions in the comment section below!

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:59 - Installing Python
3:18 - Installing VS Code
6:28 - Creating the Python File
8:48 - Creating a First Bot
11:28 - Connecting to Discord
21:04 - Sending a Message to a Channel

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[tenshi_tries]

Studied the basics for Python yesterday and this will be my first project!

[nightcoretv]

Hello there !
For those who don't have "Copy ID" when you're trying to copy the ID of your channel, you have to go :
Settings>Appearance>Developer Mode>On
See ya!

[annbaturytski]

For people having errors with getting the import discord part to work try closing out of the vs and reloading it

[MCGR]

pip3 : The term 'pip3' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or
operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the
path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ pip3 install discord
+ ~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (pip3:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
Help PLS??

[troys]

Hey, thanks for this! I have been coding Python for less than a year and I just saw your channel now. Its so cool!

[MMAnalysis]

You do an excellent job describing things clearly. I've literally never programmed anything in my life (just started learning Python) and you made this quite easy. Liked, subscribed, and looking forward to more!

[Emilijanandre]

when i type "pip3 install discord" it says this: 'pip3' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

im on windows

[Michel-mbyq]

Heyyy, discord bot is my first project. Thanks for your easy and beginner style teaching!

[bordenaja]

when i do the command prompt/terminal, it says ' 'pip3' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.' What do I do? Help!

[ItzAznee]

i just cant seem to be able to do the pip3 install discord thing

[curingyou]

pip3 install discord (what i ran in terminal) began running the downloads, then a bunch of errors showed up, anything to consider?

[ursamidnight]

when I told pip to install discord, it said requirement already satisfied, but visual studio code is saying that the discord module doesn't exist

[emt]

why i get this error, Exception has occurred: TypeError
__new__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'deny_new'
or
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'discord'

[Nimboi]

Hey, thank you for the nice, easy style of teaching! It's my first (kinda) big project on python!

[PixilFox]

I need some help when i run the code i get this error AttributeError: module 'discord.client' has no attribute 'run'

how to fix this?

[syedmohammadanas]

please help me with the multidict error PLEASE
ERROR: Could not build wheels for multidict, yarl which use PEP 517 and cannot be installed directly
PLEASE
PLEASE

[thefamilyguy]

So clear, thanks so much very helpful 10/10!

[marcelooo]

when i type pip3 install discord in command prompt it says that pip3 is not recognised as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

[audunaa]

This is great. You explain very well. Verrrry niceeee!

[kvetoslavlizlorech]

You are actually amazing guy keep it up !!! I am trying to build bot and I am searching for commands in database for long period of time thru like few hundreds even if I choose right section, thank you for this. You basically showed me thing that I was searching for like 30 mins. can't wait for watching next part !