Movie Recommendations
Movie Embed

Inspiration

Necessity is the mother of inspiration...or was that it? Anyways a society I'm in, in my college required a discord bot for conducting events like a Movie Night, or the managerial stuff like getting count of particular role (discord lingo). I had implemented a DM feature as well but didn't know discord banned bots for it. A bot I had initially made got banned for it :'( This bot also automates setting up private text and voice channels and sets up permissions and roles automatically.

What it does

Access. bot creates a clean Movie Night embeds with just 5 arguments.
Access. bot gives the Top 5 recent (can be changed with the source code) recommendations for any genre mentioned on the IMDb website.
Access. bot gets the count of every member in a particular role and their discriminators.
It can create private text and voice channels and sets up permissions and creates the role automatically.

How we built it

Python
Discord library in python wrapper
Heroku
BeautifulSoup4

And a whole lot of love <3

What we learnt

We learnt how much effort it goes into finishing an project where one is involved in the entire pipeline. Implementing Heroku for the first time was quite a challenge, but we came around that as a team. We learnt web scraping probably a week ago from when I'm writing this. Overall the learning experience was quite enriching and we would definitely do more of these.