How to create a Discord bot

Discord bots can take over various automated tasks in your Discord channels. The pre­requis­ite is having your own Discord server. Keep reading to find out how to make a Discord bot and how to add a pre-made one to your server.

How to integrate a pre-pro­grammed Discord bot:

1. Select a Discord bot from a website offering a Discord bot list (e.g. ‘top.gg’).
2. Click on ‘Invite’ on the bot website.
3. Select your server and grant the bot the per­mis­sions it needs.
4. The bot will then be added to your Discord server.

How to make your own Discord bot:

1. Turn on ‘Developer mode’ in your Discord account.
2. Click on ‘Discord API’.
3. In the Developer portal, click on ‘Ap­plic­a­tions’. Log in again and then, back in the ‘Ap­plic­a­tions’ menu, click on ‘New Ap­plic­a­tion’.
4. Name the bot and then click ‘Create’.
5. Go to the ‘Bot’ menu and generate a token using ‘Add Bot’.
6. Program your bot using the bot token and save the file.
7. Define other details for your bot under ‘General In­form­a­tion’.
8. Click on ‘OAuth2’, activate ‘bot’, set the per­mis­sions, and then click on ‘Copy’.
9. Select your server to add your bot to it.

Bots have become a central part of the Internet. These automated programs can take on tasks and fulfill them in­de­pend­ently. For example, a bot could act as a customer service associate, collect data from social media, or crawl the web to improve search machines. In Discord, users can employ bots with a variety of features, in order to improve the func­tion­al­ity or en­ter­tain­ment value of their server.

Some popular forms of Discord bots include:

• Discord music bots, which auto­mat­ic­ally play music
• Voice command bots for voice control of Discord
• All­round­er bots that combine various functions, e.g. gaming in­teg­ra­tion, automatic no­ti­fic­a­tions, and mod­er­at­ing
• Trans­la­tion bots
• Stat­ist­ics bots for analysing server data

Discord bots are par­tic­u­larly practical for the gaming community, as they can auto­mat­ic­ally com­mu­nic­ate with a dedicated Valheim server or Minecraft server, evaluate user behaviour, and establish a con­nec­tion between Discord and the gaming server.

The first thing you’ll need is a Discord account, if you don’t already have one. Then use the account to set up your own Discord server, which is where you’ll integrate the bot. From this point you have two options for using a Discord bot:

If you’re not a skilled pro­gram­mer, your best bet is to use one of the numerous pre-pro­grammed bots out there. You can find a wide variety of bots with either broad or spe­cial­ised functions on websites like ‘top.gg’.

To use a pre-pro­grammed Discord bot, take the following steps:

Step 1: Go to a Bot list website such as ‘top.gg’. Once you’ve chosen a bot, you’ll be re­dir­ec­ted to the bot website. Al­tern­at­ively, you can go directly to the website of your chosen Discord bot. For example, if you know that you want to download the music bot Hydra, you can go directly to the website ‘hydra.bot’.

Step 2: Click on ‘Invite’ on the bot page to invite the Discord bot to your Discord server.

Step 3: Enter the login in­form­a­tion for your Discord account.

Step 4: At this point, a window should open where you can choose the server that you want to add the Discord bot to. Grant the bot the necessary per­mis­sions.

Step 5: The bot will then appear as a user in your channel. You can usually read about the bot’s features and commands in the bot in­struc­tions or using the command ‘.help’.

Step 8: The au­then­tic­a­tion link including client ID should look as follows:

Step 9: Select your Discord server in order to add your bot.