Rick the Discord Bot

Inspiration

Our inspiration for this project was Groovy the discord bot (RIP) and the hole left in our hearts from his departure.

What it does

It is supposed to be able to take in inputs from discord text channels, join active calls, and stream Spotify within the call. What it can do is take in commands that control a person's personal Spotify account, join discord voice calls, and stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

How we built it

Rick was built using Python, JavaScript, Discord API, and Spotify API

Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenge we ran into was with the Spotify API. At the end of the day, we realized we needed Spotify to see the bot as a device to play through. After a solid 10 hours of trying to do only that, we came to the unfortunate conclusion that Spotify's API does not currently have that capability :(

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Going into this project, neither of us had any experience with APIs or Javascript so at the end of the day we feel very good that we were so close to our intended result and we truly put all of our energies into finding a way to put all of our smaller pieces together.

What we learned

How to use different APIs, JavaScript, and a little bit of React from one of our possible problem solutions that didn't work out.

What's next for Rick the Discord Bot

In the future, we plan to come back to Rick and see if there is any updates with the Spotify API or if our future knowlage will show us a solution we missed

Built With

• api
• discord
• github
• javascript
• python
• spotify