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Discord Bots 3: Coding a Bot with discord.js

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It's finally time to write some code! In this video, I demonstrate the very basics of coding a "hello world"-style bot with discord.js. 💻 Code: https://thecodingtrain.com/learning/bots/discord/03-discordjs.html 💻 Glitch: https://glitch.com/~choo-choo-bot-discord 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Discord-Bot-Choo-Choo 🎥 Next: https://youtu.be/G2Yns7NUSq4 🎥 All videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6avBYxeBSwF48YhAnSn_sA4 Links discussed in this video: 🔗 discord.js: https://discord.js.org/ 🔗 Discord.js Guide: https://discordjs.guide/ 🔗 DisStreamChat Bot: https://www.disstreamchat.com/ 🔗 The Coding Train Discord: https://thecodingtrain.com/discord Other videos mentioned in this video: 🎥 Server Side with Node.js: https://youtu.be/wxbQP1LMZsw 🎥 Hiding API Keys (dotenv): https://youtu.be/17UVejOw3zA 🎥 Building a Discord bot with Daniel Shiffman of the Coding Train: https://youtu.be/gzM7kj6gV5I 0:00 Introduction 1:36 Code! Creating a Node Application 3:44 Code! Adding discord.js: https://discord.js.org/ https://discordjs.guide/ 4:37 Code! Creating and Authenticating the Bot 8:08 Code! Replying to Messages 10:59 Code! Specifying a Channel 13:28 Code! Random replies 15:03 Other Bot Examples and Suggestions 🚂 Website: http://thecodingtrain.com/ 👾 Share Your Creation! https://thecodingtrain.com/Guides/community-contribution-guide.html 🚩 Suggest Topics: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Rainbow-Topics 💡 GitHub: https://github.com/CodingTrain 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/hPuGy2g 💖 Membership: http://youtube.com/thecodingtrain/join 🛒 Store: https://standard.tv/codingtrain 📚 Books: https://www.amazon.com/shop/thecodingtrain 🖋️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thecodingtrain 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.coding.train/ 🎥 Coding Challenges: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6ZiZxtDDRCi6uhfTH4FilpH 🎥 Intro to Programming: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6Zy51Q-x9tMWIv9cueOFTFA 🔗 p5.js: https://p5js.org 🔗 p5.js Web Editor: https://editor.p5js.org/ 🔗 Processing: https://processing.org 📄 Code of Conduct: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Code-of-Conduct

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I mean, there's so many things I could have this bot do.", 'start': 447.576, 'duration': 2.902}, {'end': 457.403, 'text': 'One thing I should really mention is that this might be a point where you pause and go take a look at a website called discordjs.guide.', 'start': 450.818, 'duration': 6.585}], 'summary': 'Debugged code to authenticate and connect choo choo bot, ready for further development. recommended visiting discordjs.guide.', 'duration': 34.027, 'max_score': 423.376, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/8k-zyUyuvlM/pics/8k-zyUyuvlM423376.jpg'}, {'end': 710.977, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 684.479, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 690.603, 'text': "You're only going to see that is if you have your developer mode enabled in the Discord client.", 'start': 684.479, 'duration': 6.124}, {'end': 698.068, 'text': 'Where you do that is under Settings, under Appearance, and then scrolling down under Advanced.', 'start': 691.164, 'duration': 6.904}, 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775.739, 'text': "the one thing you notice here is that it's always at mentioning me, which is something that you might want, but not necessarily what you want.", 'start': 768.015, 'duration': 7.724}, {'end': 786.204, 'text': "So something that I could do in this particular case is I could change the way I'm replying by saying message.channel, so a particular channel,", 'start': 776.099, 'duration': 10.105}], 'summary': 'Bot testing replies limited, mentions need adjustment.', 'duration': 25.433, 'max_score': 760.771, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/8k-zyUyuvlM/pics/8k-zyUyuvlM760771.jpg'}, {'end': 843.876, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 813.874, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 817.257, 'text': 'Just to make this do something slightly more interesting,', 'start': 813.874, 'duration': 3.383}, {'end': 827.306, 'text': 'what if I were to create an array called replies and I were to put a few different replies in there, like this?', 'start': 817.257, 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The user demonstrates the implementation of conditional checks in the bot's code to ensure replies are limited to a particular channel and specific message content.", "Implementing random message selection from an array of replies to add variety to the bot's responses. 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This is the Discord bot series.', 'start': 1092.088, 'duration': 2.522}, {'end': 1096.931, 'text': 'Join the Discord.', 'start': 1094.73, 'duration': 2.201}, {'end': 1098.593, 'text': 'You can share stuff there.', 'start': 1097.572, 'duration': 1.021}, {'end': 1102.255, 'text': "There's also a web page associated with this video that has a way of.", 'start': 1098.773, 'duration': 3.482}, {'end': 1106.398, 'text': 'if you have documentation or information about your bot online somewhere, you can link to it from there.', 'start': 1102.255, 'duration': 4.143}, {'end': 1107.739, 'text': "So I'll see you.", 'start': 1107.018, 'duration': 0.721}, {'end': 1108.519, 'text': "It'll be a little while.", 'start': 1107.799, 'duration': 0.72}, {'end': 1109.52, 'text': "I'll be wearing a different shirt.", 'start': 1108.539, 'duration': 0.981}, {'end': 1112.561, 'text': 'But in the next videos, hopefully more exciting things to come.', 'start': 1109.74, 'duration': 2.821}, {'end': 1115.563, 'text': 'In particular, I definitely have to show you how to hide your token.', 'start': 1112.681, 'duration': 2.882}, {'end': 1121.146, 'text': 'But if you want to do that right now, check out my video already about the sort of .env node package.', 'start': 1115.803, 'duration': 5.343}, {'end': 1122.867, 'text': "That's what I'm going to use in this series as well.", 'start': 1121.166, 'duration': 1.701}, {'end': 1123.107, 'text': 'All right.', 'start': 1122.887, 'duration': 0.22}, {'end': 1123.888, 'text': 'Thanks, everybody.', 'start': 1123.408, 'duration': 0.48}, {'end': 1124.548, 'text': 'See you soon.', 'start': 1124.088, 'duration': 0.46}, {'end': 1125.089, 'text': 'Make your bots.', 'start': 1124.588, 'duration': 0.501}, {'end': 1125.629, 'text': 'Beep, beep.', 'start': 1125.229, 'duration': 0.4}, {'end': 1126.289, 'text': 'Beep, beep.', 'start': 1125.929, 'duration': 0.36}, {'end': 1126.83, 'text': "I'm a sheep.", 'start': 1126.309, 'duration': 0.521}, {'end': 1128.691, 'text': 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