Basic template for a discord bot with the commands extension and cogs
If you don't already have a discord bot, click here, accept any prompts then click "New Application" at the top right of the screen. Enter the name of your bot then click accept. Click on Bot from the panel from the left, then click "Add Bot." When the prompt appears, click "Yes, do it!"
Then, click copy under token to get your bot's token. Your bot's icon can also be changed by uploading an image.
Create a file named .env
Add DISCORD_BOT_SECRET=<your bot token>
Your .env file should look something like this:
DISCORD_BOT_SECRET=<Bot token>
After adding your bot token to your .env file, navigate to line 10 in main.py. Change 487258918465306634 to your user id. To get your id, ensure developer mode is enabled (Settings->Appearance->Advanced->Developer Mode) then right-click on yourself and click copy id.
When you hit start everything should startup fine.
So now, all you have to do to keep your bot up is setup something to ping the site your bot made every 5 minutes or so.
Go to uptimerobot.com and create an accout if you dont have one. After verifying your account, click "Add New Monitor".
- For Monitor Type select "HTTP(s)"
- In Friendly Name put the name of your bot
- For your url, put the url of the website made for your repl.
- Select any alert contacts you want, then click "Create Monitor"
Your bot should now be good to go, with near 100% uptime.