The discord API provides you with an easy tool to create and use your own bots and tools. For this tutorial, we are going to create a basic music bot and add it to our server, not only for developers anyone can do it. The bot will have the following command :
- PLAY command.
- HELP command.
- QUEUE command.
- NOWPLAYING command.
- LOOP command.
- SKIP command.
- PAUSE command.
- RESUME command.
- CLEARQUEUE command.
- LEAVE command.
- SEARCH command.
- VOLUME command.
- REMOVE command.
Requirements
Heroku account
Setting up a discord bot
First, we need to create a new application on the discord development portal. We can do so by visiting the portal and clicking on the new application.
Chose the right name for the application
After that, we need to select the bot tab and click on add bot and copy the token and store it we will need it later.
Now that both application and bot are created we have to associate the bot to our server
Copy the link in the checkbox and open it
Deploy our bot
If you are not a developer all you have to is to copy my pre-coded project and you are good to go, for more details if you want to add more functionalities ask me in a comment and I will do a developer version of this tutorial.
Click this link.
Chose the app name,the region and add the copied tokens from section and the prefix you want to use with the bot.
BOT_TOKEN
PREFIX
And then click manage the app for the next section.
Configure your bot
Under resources tab, disable Web and activate Worker.
Finally, click on more and restart all dynos
Now you cant test your bot with any command
YOUR_PREFIX play justin bieber babyif you liked the tutorial you can support me by :
Originally posted on https://my-cockpit.space/article/make-your-own-music-discord-bot-for-free/, 27 september 2019
