A discord bot with a different approach. Typically discord bots are directed towards mini games, What makes Alfred different from them is, it's directed towards educating people and helping people in their vocabulary.
- I have applied my knowledge of html tags and python to employ web scraping to get data from wikipedia and to return user searches without the need to go searchup everytime using chrome which in many ways saves time and data.
- There is also a dictionary feature which uses the same practices to scrap the searched words from https://www.dictionary.com/ which anonymously returns results(deletes the user's search request).
- It also has a array of typical features like mini games and server mangagement commands.
- A discord account
- A discord developer account.
- A python interpreter.
- A hosting service to host your bot.
- Clone this repository.
- Configure the TOKEN with your unique bot token from discord developer portal.
- After configuring, you may now want to host the bot with a hosting service to make your bit 24/7. More about it in
Follow along
If you want to follow along here are the resources i used,
Interpreter
- Replit
- https://replit.com/ a online interpreter which does not require installation of any software or packages.
Hosting platform
- replit server and uptimerobot
- replit server can be created by executing the
keep_alive.pyafter creating the server you may want to host it using hosting services,here uptimerobot. - hosting services like heroku can also be used.
Uptimerobot
- Uptimerobot is a free online hosting service, You may need to login to host your bot.
- After logging in, you can copy your replit server url and host it using uptimerobot.
Discord has stopped support for discord.py after september, Bots can still be created and hosted with existing versions
