What are Discord Bots?
Discord is used by more than 10 million people daily using these stats we can clearly see people’s interest in communities and discord is growing. People are exploring and joining new servers.
As the popularity of servers grows people tend to join that server more once the number of members grows it becomes hard for admins to manage the server this is where bots come into play. There are several tasks admin bots can perform to enhance the user experience on the server. Some of these tasks are
- Welcoming new members.
- Answering frequently asked questions.
- Banning toxic people from servers.
- Replying, sending, deleting messages.
- Managing people’s roles in server.
And the list goes on. Admins of huge discord communities always prefer enabling multiple bots on their server, after following this tutorial you can also create your own discord bot, let’s get started.
Creating a Discord Bot in Python
If you are familiar with online communities and if you are a part of one or you own one, you must have heard about discord and in discord, you may have seen bots managing those communities. So in this article, we are going to set up our discord developer portal account and will create a discord bot. A minimal bot with basic functionalities and if you want you can always extend the functionalities of this bot according to your needs.