Inspiration
Some of our group members worked on Discord bots in their spare time. They would work on these bots while we were all in a voice channel, and we would talk about them. This interest in making bots and other programs for servers inspired us to go and make our community bot for the Hackathon.
What it does
The Community Bot has many functions that are meant to help encourage activity in a server. Its functions include: random number generator, random trivia question generator (Work In Progress), a text-to-speech command(Work In Progress), an eight ball, and a motivational quote generator. In addition to that, the bot can respond to certain messages, like saying hi or goodbye .
How we built it
We used an IDE called Visual Studio(VS) Code. The program is all in python, and we imported some functions over to help with some of the more complex parts, and also to process Discord commands.
Challenges we ran into
Our knowledge was not exactly universal among the team. Not everyone on the team knew how to use VS Code, so starting up was a little slow. Some of our members did not have any prior knowledge to getting commands sent in Discord through the program. We also had trouble getting the API for the trivia questions, hence why it is still a work in progress.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We’re proud of the fact that we were able to get together and create a bot that has a multitude of functions, both simple and complex. It is not much, but we are still proud of it.
What we learned
We all learned how to use VS Code, or learned more about how to use it. We all now know how to get Discord commands processed through a program, and also learned some basics on how to get an API for python.
What's next for CutieHack 2021 Community Bot
In the future, if we come back to this project, we plan on finishing the WIP functions in our program. We might add more commands in the future, but that is still uncertain.
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