Create a Discord Bot in Python

The page walks through creating a Discord bot in Python, first as a simple bot that replies to hello and goodbye, then as a Minecraft bot with !mc subcommands for help, server usage, server status, and who is online. It also covers creating the Discord application, adding the bot through OAuth2, and storing the token in a .env file.

Reading notes

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• The tutorial uses a Python virtual environment and installs discord and python-dotenv.
• It says to create a Discord application, add a bot, and authorize it to a server through an OAuth2 URL.
• The basic bot loads DISCORD_TOKEN from .env, listens for messages, and replies with the sender name when the content is hello or goodbye.
• The Minecraft bot uses commands.Bot(command_prefix="!") and a mc command with an argument.
• !mc help sends a usage message.
• !mc serverusage gets the system load with multiprocessing.cpu_count() and os.getloadavg().
• !mc serverstatus requests https://api.mcsrvstat.us/2/{minecraft_server_url} and reports whether the server is online.
• !mc whoisonline requests player data from the same API and formats the number of online players and their names.
• The page says the bot source code is in a GitHub repository.