This is a toy-project to create Discord bots in Python. It uses a plugin structure to add custom behaviour, and under the hood it uses Discord.py.

This is a toy project - so tests/documentation/support will be very sparse, if any.

In its current form, the bot has hard dependencies on Discord.py (async branch) and Django.

The first one is obvious, the latter is not. I wanted to use Django's ORM, and possibly later the template engine. There is also a fair chance that a small web interface will be built around (some of) the plugins. On top of that, Django has some convenient helper functions to set-up logging and database abstraction.

Rather than re-inventing the wheel or using SQLAlchemies ORM and start-up machinery, I picked familiarity and simplicity.

It's probably easiest to fork or clone this repo to use it and add your own plugins.

Start with installing the depdencies through pip. If you don't know how to do that, look up some tutorials that deal with virtualenv and pip.

The project depends on some environment variables, mostly to avoid leaking secrets to the big bad outside world:

• EMAIL: the e-mail address to sign in with Discord
• PASSWORD: the password to sign in with Discord (who would've guessed huh)
• DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: used to figure out which settings to load. Set to bot.settings or a custom settings file. Used by Django to be able to load the settings.
• SECRET_KEY: required by Django. See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/settings/#std:setting-SECRET_KEY

Set these envvars in your shell, or in my case, they are added to the supervisord config file (see discord-bot.ini).

Create the necessary database tables:

$ python manage.py migrate

Start the bot by executing:

$ python main.py

That's it.